I love historical disease news - this bit is from nature.com: West Nile Virus may have felled Alexander the Great.
Nothing like putting things in perspective - (from the Globe and Mail) even ancient humans caused climate change.
On ancient astronomers: (from Scientific American) German “Stonehenge” marks oldest observatory and (from The Independent) discovery of buried megaliths completes Avebury circle.
(all found at fine, fine mirabilis.ca)
On fun with corpses:
Viking queen may be exhumed for clues to killing
Last month there was a stir about some historians wanting to open King Harold’s tomb - here’s the BBC update: exhumation of ‘HaroldÂ’ refused
And scientists in Florence are planning to exhume some 50 corpses of members of the Medici family - a link to come when I find one not requiring a subscription.