(Part 2) Best products from r/ArtefactPorn

I found this book a while ago, but I didn't buy it so I can't say if it's any good but it looks interesting https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555408206/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There is a book the covers the archaeological dig with drawing of the armor with theories of how it was constructed.

Here is a pretty amazing website that has reconstructions of the body armor.

I've been fascinated by Celtic art since I saw photos of the Book of Kells, Book of Durrow and the Lindisfarne Gospels when I was a kid.

I found this book (Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction by George Bain) that explains how these kind of drawings were made. It's amazing how something so complex can be made with very simple methods.

You should read Guns Germs and Steel! It's a super interesting analysis of why it happened that way.

Some people say that the idea of the griffin came from dinosaur fossils in Mongolia. Apparently, there are mostly complete fossils in upright positions.

The First Fossil Hunters is a pretty good book on the subject.

That's no joke, this thing exists for real. Look at the customers pictures. Also the reviews are pretty hilarious.

It wasn't FOR the living (hence the name book of the Dead) It was meant to be read to you as you lay dyeing ...or to your mummy after you were prepaired.

Think last Rites or the The Tibetan Book of the Dead , It was meant to teach you how to get to the boat of the sun god to ask him to accept you into his boat party (heaven)...if you got eaten by crocodiles before you got there, well that would suck.

I like the round ones better, looks more steampunk than steampunk does

Finished this a couple of days ago and that's what it says. He was worshipped as a god for a long time after he died; guess Gods are prettier than that.

i'm sure we both mean the same thing. I did some reading about it in on the map by Simon Garfield, an interesting read if you haven't already read it.

Not only lucky for the baby but considered lucky for others, too. Farley Mowat wrote about his caul being sold to a sailor. (IIRC the sailor drowned!)

The book Escape from Sobibor is a good read to get more information about those that actually lived in the camps. The author interviewed a lot of the (very few) survivors. Very good, very sobering read.

The Apis Bull was a bull seen as a Devine mediator between the gods and man. It was chosen at birth, and selected for having a whole list of features: it had to be a certain color, have certain markings, born at a certain time, etc. They kept it in its own sanctuary where it could be watched by the priests, and it’s movements and actions were seen as portents and messages from the gods. When these Apis Bulls died they were given a state funeral and mummified in their own tombs. It was a very old tradition, with Apis bull mummies found from the Old Kingdom, all the way to Ptolemaic Egypt. Alexander the Great is said to have met with the bull that was alive during his time.

Full disclosure, I have no clue if that’s what this bull is. I just finished a book on ancient Egypt and remembered that part.

Remember seeing this in an excellent visual encyclopaedia I checked out from the library as a kid in the mid 90's.

Fairly certain it was Weapon: A Visual History Of Arms And Armour if it wasn't Warrior: A Visual History Of The Fighting Man

I'm self taught.

This book is a fantastic resource for teaching yourself.

It's Late Iron Age, but it is a place to start: https://www.amazon.com/Iconic-Costumes-Scandinavian-Iconography-Textiles-ebook/dp/B01NCMMAZT

Also, this is what (some) women's costumes looked like in the 2nd century BC.

https://www.amazon.com/Twin-Tollans-Postclassic-Mesoamerican-Pre-Columbian/dp/0884023729

> In the Twin Tollan book, the authors more or less take a world system approach to suggest that both cities experience connectivity, thus moving away from notions of one influencing the other

I had to ask my friend for the source he had told me. But he says the debate isn't settled and more work needs to be done at both sites to work out their chronology.

Which reminds me of this Michael Smith article

http://www.academia.edu/download/37635563/MES-07-TulaChichen.pdf

The Knife Man is a good book about William Hunter's brother (and sometimes assistant) surgeon John Hunter, and the work of grave/corpse robbing for medical science.

Sooo good. The Power Broker