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Ancient World

How to Make a Hut

May 23, 2023

We know a lot about making Egyptian pyramids and palaces, and a bit about where skilled workers lived, but what…

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Ancient World, Biblical

The Mother Tongue

May 13, 2023

What languages might the participants of the Exodus spoken and written? This is really a fantasy question because, to answer…

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Ancient World, Food & Drink

A Daily Kitchen Schedule

April 15, 2023

The background calculations for this post comes from The Rhythms of Bread. In my New Kingdom Egyptian village kitchen, for…

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Ancient World, Food & Drink

Making Sourdough Bread

March 28, 2023

The bread of Ancient Egypt isn’t easy to figure out. Though there are models and illustrations of bakeries from that…

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Ancient World, Food & Drink

The Heart of the Kitchen

March 21, 2023

Ovens and stoves. The heart (and hearth) of any kitchen, ancient or modern. Ovens were small and brick or clay…

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Ancient World, Food & Drink

How to Make Things Hot

February 7, 2023

I talk about cooking in How to Eat in Pharaoh Days, but this post is about the fuel. No electricity,…

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Ancient World, Science & Tech

Ancient Metalwork Tidbits

January 7, 2023

I discussed a fair bit of metalwork in Ancient Egypt in the post Goldwork for the Golden Calf. In this…

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Ancient World, Science & Tech

Ancient Egyptian Carpentry

January 7, 2023

Wagons & Carts In addition to using the Nile and its distributaries for transportation over water, the Egyptians created packed…

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Ancient World, Food & Drink

Water Everywhere, Except Right Here

January 3, 2023

I did boatloads (pun intended) of research while writing the first draft of the novel but here and there I…

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Ancient World

Sewing & Other Fabric Arts

January 2, 2023

Despite their clothing being rather straightforward (mostly lengths of undyed linen tied in various ways or sewn into simple shapes),…

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Ancient World, Science & Tech

Soap & Cleaning Materials of Ancient Egypt

December 31, 2022

Now soap is something I know well, being a soapmaker when I’m not a writer. But using a digital scale…

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Ancient World, Science & Tech

The Lights of the Exodus

December 31, 2022

So what sort of lighting did folks use in Egypt during the New Kingdom? Oddly, most sources say there are…

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About the Book

Are You Done Yet?

December 29, 2022

Written Dec 29, 2022Last updated Dec 29, 2022 What are the steps to writing a novel and why the heck…

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Ancient World, Biblical, Exodus

Why Was the Golden Calf So Bad?

March 22, 2022

The story of the Golden Calf is an odd one, in large part because it’s not clear it ever belonged…

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Ancient World, Biblical, Exodus, Science & Tech

Goldwork for the Golden Calf

January 11, 2022

Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such great sin upon them?”…

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Biblical, Exodus

Waiting for Moses

December 28, 2021

After the Revelation and the sacrifices for the reading of the Covenant, Moses heads up Mount Sinai. For some commentators,…

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Ancient World, Food & Drink

The Rhythms of Bread

November 2, 2021

Breadmaking is a pretty straightforward thing to learn. There are countless books, classes, blogs, articles, and friends and family eager…

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Ancient World, Food & Drink

The Daily Grind

November 1, 2021

Once you have dehulled grain, the next step is to grind it. In Ancient Egypt, this would be done by…

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Biblical

The Female God

October 16, 2021

Before he dies, Jacob blesses each of his sons. In the blessing for Joseph, we have some unusual language. The…

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Ancient World, Food & Drink

Threshing & Hulling Emmer

October 7, 2021

Emmer is an old variety of wheat (and a Farro grain) grown extensively in the ancient world, including by Ancient…

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The Boat Children is a middle-grade fantasy novel in progress about kids from the fictional town of Barberry Lake, Arizona, who time travel to Ancient Egypt to join the Exodus. Here, I consolidate my research on the many elements that make up the book.

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