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Who was buried at Sutton Hoo? Owen Jarus © Provided by Live Science The most famous and ornate of the findings at the Sutton Hoo burial is this helmet, made of gold, silver and other metals. A medieval ship burial in England that is so impressive and mysterious that it's been compared to the world of the Old English epic "Beowulf" is now captivating viewers of the Netflix drama "The Dig." But who is actually buried at the 1,400-year-old site known as Sutton Hoo? The burial contains numerous goods, including an ornately decorated helmet, that hint at the possible identity of...

Emily Judd, Princeton Univeristy Library Jan. 28, 2021 4:04 p.m. Although the course "Reading Toni Morrison" was taught virtually this fall, students were given special digital access to the Toni Morrison papers in Princeton University Library's Special Collections to explore the Nobel Laureate and Princeton professor emerita's creative process. Photos courtesy of Special Collections, Princeton University Library, and by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy What is it like to pore over — and even touch — the handwriting of a world-renowned author on the lined notepaper on which she drafted her famous...

Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications Jan. 15, 2021 9:32 a.m. Lionel Gossman, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Medicine in Philadelphia on Jan. 11. He was 91. Lionel Gossman, 2013 Photo by William Paulson, 1981 graduate alumnus Gossman joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and transferred to emeritus status in 1999. His research and teaching focused on French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries; literature, literary criticism and history as social and cultural institutions; and the wr...

Gibraltar-lattre-1762 $950.00 Title Plan du Promontoire de la Ville et du Port de Gibraltar avec les Ouvrages Faits Depuis le Dernier Siege et les Lignes Construites par Ordre de Sa Majesté très Catholique, pour Empescher la Communication de Gibraltar avec l'Espagne.   1762 (undated)         1 : 12000 Description This is a scarce, separately-issued c. 1770 Jean Lattré map of the town, port and peninsula of Gibraltar. This eastern-oriented map is richly detailed, showing the remarkable and forbidding topography of the peninsula and its fortifications. The map shows the po...

know you were going to write this book when you first lived there? did you keep a note? did you keep a journal? are you just relying on what you remember? >> it is a good question. we did not know we were going to write this book and we didn't keep any notes. the only notes we had were the stories we had written and we had a good archive of at because of pieces i had done for fox and that greg had written but it is amazing how memories work. really strong memories don't fade. the good stories and poignant stories stay with you. interestingly enough we wrote this book, we started writ...