And it’s not because of the decimal system. Why then? Because baby #10 is apparently perfect. Our sweet girl arrived in May, all 7lb 2oz of her. She’s a great snuggler, a beautiful girl, and the kind of gorgeous that knocks me over every time. Everything writing related in my life was put on pause…
Have you ever noticed that our expectations for ancient man are similar to those for toddlers? Hear me out:1. They aren’t allowed to use power tools.2. They can’t be motivated by practicality.3. They must believe in Santa Claus and bogeymen under the bed. Yes, I know, it sounds weird, but let’s look at Gobekli Tepe. Discovered in 1994, this site…
Have you ever been to a generic Christian women’s conference? They’ve never really been my cup of tea, maybe because on the whole they feel unfocused. We go through Proverbs 31, but… Proverbs 31 covers a lot of ground, and, to avoid being cultish, we remind ourselves that it isn’t a to-do list. Which it…
Late in the fall of 1896, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, scholars fresh from Oxford took the steamer to Cairo. They wanted to become Famous Archaeologists during a period when the British were fascinated by ancient Egyptian artifacts. So fascinated that said artifacts were disappearing from Egypt like sliced grapes from a toddler’s plate. They decided to dig…
When you think about ancient technology, how often does potting soil come to mind? Well, it should. The soil of the Amazon is generally poor, acidic, and leaches nutrients like a sieve. Growing food there is a nightmare—unless you happen upon, or go looking for, some of the intensely fertile, beautiful black gold put there…
He had every reason to believe he was the only human left, and he knew what extinction meant. After all he’d seen several species that once inhabited his barren little island go extinct. On the Pacific Ocean’s Henderson Island lies a heap of bones and refuse three hundred meters long and thirty meters wide. The…
In 1942, a forest ranger discovered a lake full of human bones high in the Himalayans. And when I say Roopkund Lake is full of human bones—the remains of around three hundred people rest in the lake water. The area is remote. Before a lake packed with dead folks was discovered, the only people who…
In 1963, a man in Derinkuyu, Turkey, couldn’t keep his chickens from disappearing. The chickens were kept in an apparently safe location; his basement. No wild animals, no place for the feathered beasts to hide, right? So where did they go? One day he entered the basement in time to see a fluffy feathered rear…