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In Germany last year, a badger unearthed the graves of two twelfth-century Eastern European lords; the tombs contained grave-goods like belt buckles and swords, while the skeletons sported multiple healed war wounds.
You stick a brick in its mouth, of course. Or you bury its head between its legs.
. . . but the details behind da Vinci's Mona Lisa have long been obscure. Now, archaeologists in Italy have opened the grave believed to house the bones of Lisa Gherardini, the woman believed to have been the model for the famous painting.
What do graffiti and medieval manuscripts have in common?
The Dutch graffiti artist Shoe is finding out, and you can read about his graffiti art, commissioned in celebration of the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Many of you are curious about language change between Chaucer and Shakespeare (especially when we do early modern poetry in 2310/2350H).
