
Book of the Dead for the Singer of Amun, Nany, c. 1050 bc. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930.
• The National Autonomous University of Mexico is reprinting books by Latin American women writers: “The Vindictas collection was born out of deep indignation. It is women writers exhuming other women writers.” (The Guardian)
• On Alma Mahler. (The New York Review of Books)
• A question we hadn’t thought of asking: Where do finger names come from? (JSTOR Daily)
• Scanning ancient Inuit mummies for heart disease. (Discover)
• Found: 1,600-year-old bone jewelry. (Hürriyet Daily News)
• On museums in 2020. (Jezebel)
• Welcome, works now in the public domain! (Slate)
• Unearthing an ancient guide to the Egyptian underworld—and the first illustrated book. (New York Times)
• Falling in love with ancient Greek. (NewYorker.com)
• A history of the first psychedelic. (London Review of Books)
• This week in obituaries: Sonny Mehta, Barbara Testa, Woody Vasulka, Sue Lyon, David Stern, Don Larsen, Lee Mendelson, Fazle Abed, Alasdair Gray, and Gertrude Himmelfarb.