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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-12 10:22:06

Story advice please!
I have a character, an elderly senior official in a roughly bronze-age city with roughly bronze-age medical science.
I want him to have a progressive medical condition which he is trying to conceal, which will eventually kill him, and which requires him to take frequent, sometimes extended, lavatory breaks.
What is his illness, and what would people around him be able to observe?

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-11 11:17:21
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
the moon knew not what power he possessed,
the stars knew not where t…

A photograph of the Trundholm Sun Chariot, a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark. It is a depiction of the sun chariot, a bronze statue of a horse and a large golden bronze disk, both of which are placed on a device with spoked wheels.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2026-01-07 13:40:06

‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links | Archaeology | The Guardian
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‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-01-29 18:00:15

Should we be surprised that the peoples of the Bronze Age chose to create their gods in their own image? After all, in the present day, the American Right have managed to recreate Jesus of Nazareth in their own image, a far more audacious intellectual feat.