Robert Caro on the art of biography
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Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
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Was early modern writing paper expensive?
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway
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The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard
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Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area.
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Why writing philosophy is hard (and why every historical philosopher focuses on the wrong things)
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything
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