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Welcome Caroline Ludovici….
These were the words of a young teen in a Borders Bookshop a few years ago. And she was right. There wasn’t anything ‘normal’ for her to read. She was simply confirming how there was a gap in the market for young tweens and teenagers. Anything without magic wands, dinosaurs crashing through the garden, morphing, […]
Since the amazing Harry Potter phenomenon, it seems that there has been nothing to offer 11-16 year olds to read other than magic, fantasy, or teens killing each other off… all very cool, but what happened to real characters in real situations? Are books with believable characters really dead now? Do we really have to […]
Originally posted on The Lost Works Department:
With all the recent talk of the Elgin Marbles going back to Greece, this is a good time to talk about the Parthenon – that amazing piece of Greek history and architecture. Personally, I think the Marbles, which were (are) important parts of the Parthenon, should go back to…
A beautiful bronze of Hadrian discovered by a tourist… FOLLOWING HADRIAN A magnificent bronze statue of Hadrian, now on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, was found by chance by an American tourist in Tel Shalem (Beth Shean Valley, Israel) on 25th July 1975 while searching for ancient coins with a metal detector. Tel […]
Originally posted on The Egyptiana Emporium:
Giza men arrested after digging up ancient temple under house Men carrying out illegal excavation work found the remains of an Egyptian temple from the reign of New Kingdom King Tuthmose III (Source: Ahram Online). “Seven residents of a Giza district have been arrested after they illegally excavated the…
Originally posted on The Lost Works Department:
One morning in February 1953, a young trainee plumber called Harry Martindale was sent down alone into the cellar of the Treasurer’s House in York. He had been given the grim and lonely task of making a hole in the ceiling for a central heating pipe to come…
Originally posted on The Lost Works Department:
Not a month after we find out about the 40,000-year-old abstract cave art produced by Neanderthals, in Gorham’s Cave on Gibraltar, we now hear about cave art from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, halfway across the planet from Spain. Hand stencils from Timpuseng cave, near the town of Maros,…
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