A number of years ago, an auction lot from the Egypt Exploration Society’s 1936 auction was acquired by my friend, noted coin specialist and antiquarian author, collector and dealer, the noted Amarna expert, Joel Malter. Continue reading
The necklace in the photo above looks deceptively easy to acquire, but it isn’t. You can’t buy this necklace at any price. It is a “School Artifact”.
Relics like these can be reconstructed from ancient materials. In this case, note that the maker of all the lapis beads is the same, from the same workshop. This is not the case with beads acquired through the ordinary marketplace. Matched sets of ancient beads is exceedingly rare. Continue reading
Songbirds were a favorite dish in the Ancient World, and some folks still eat birds even today. Pigeons, chickens, turkeys, ducks, and all manner of wild game birds, hunting season permitting.
It’s not only birds — we’ve always eaten things we find around the planet, and in ancient times, that went double.
Importing food and spices from faraway places created a demand for what is today called the gourmet food market, which includes spices, herbs, and very expensive olive oil and vinegar for the upwardly mobile yuppie of today.
We can today live and work in Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and even our home base, Planet Ten, all accessed by way of the 8th Dimension.
So how about joining me in reading the menu for a festival dinner with a middle-class Roman family? The feast is already in the oven. Here’s the menu for ancient Rome today:
In newspaper parlance, “Stop da Presses!!!” means that the reporter is running to his or her desk with a “scooop” — a news story that no other newspaper has got hold of yet. Well, that’s what this is. I’ll leave it to your imagination; dark, dank, cool subway tunnels with Old Gorby at your side, giving you kind, helpful instructions, such as “Watch it, meathead!” and “Is typing on a keyboard Kryptonite to your species???” and “Move it, Maggot, I haven’t got all darn day!!!”. Gives ya the willies to hear them drill sergeant commands, eh? “Gimme ten on the floor, mister!” There’s much more to this story…