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Did Romans Invent the Franklin Stove?

All right, I know the Romans invented pretty much everything — or poached it from the people they conquered — but even the Franklin stove? The "brazier" shown here, probably used just like Ben Franklin would have used one, is part of a...



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Rome, If You Want To …

In The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy writes, "Casterbridge announced old Rome in every street, alley, and precinct. It looked Roman, bespoke the art of Rome, concealed dead men of Rome. It was impossible to dig more than a foot or two deep about the...



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Curse You, Red Baron!

Lord Carnarvon, one of the first to enter King Tutankhamen's fabulous rediscovered tomb in 1923, died six weeks later from an infected mosquito bite. A month later, after touring the tomb, railroad exec George Jay Gould succumbed to pneumonia. Shortly...



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Guess the Goddess

When the archaeology team in The Five-Day Dig finds inscriptions dedicated to "The Great Mother," it kicks off a controversy over exactly who she is. While it's true that multiple goddesses in the Greco-Roman religion were referred to by that...



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Pompeii's Fresher Frescoes

At one point in my book The Five-Day Dig, the archaeological team stumbles onto a 2,000-year-old room decorated with erotic frescoes. Erotic art in homes was more common in ancient Rome than it is today, but in Pompeii the greatest quantity of it has been...



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Good Bathroom Reading?

Among many things the ancient Romans popularized (until the Dark Ages came along) was the concept of bathing. On some level, bathing epitomized civilization for the Romans, distinguishing them from their barbarian neighbors. Though only the ancient...



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Get Medieval on the Way to Rome

Dunk's medieval hotel suite in The Five Day Dig is based on the place where Hubby and I stayed outside of Rome a couple years ago. Actually built into the city wall of the Borgo in Ostia Antica, the Delfina Suite at Hotel Rodrigo de Vivar provides an...



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The Next Best Thing to Being There

In a previous post, I mentioned how the ancient library at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum has captured the imaginations of lots of people (as well as characters in The Five-Day Dig) hoping to find lost literature from Rome and Greece. But scholars...



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New Year Novella Giveaway on Kindle

Heads up to anyone who owns a Kindle or reads Kindle books on other devices: On January 1st and 2nd, you can download my Regency romance (think Jane Austen) novella, A Perfect Duet for free. Description: Meek Miranda Granville only comes alive at the...



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