Blueberry Flax Muffins

low carb for life

In the 1990’s Cafe Nero had just begun to appear on our streets and the healthy ingredient of choice was bran. If you were into health food, you were into bran. Unfortunately, this admittedly high fibre ingredient is also high in starch and the anti nutrient phytic acid.

A breakfast combo on the way to work for me back then, and especially in the summer, was a skimmed milk iced latte with a bran & sultana muffin. Believing this was a healthy choice I was oblivious to the sugary thickener in the lactose laden latte and the flour, sugar, and dried fruit in the muffin. But those muffins were delicious!

So, Sunday having come around again and the weather warming up, I decided to hit the kitchen and rustle-up a low carb version. The closest recipe I could find was Blueberry Muffins but for this I included two tablespoons of

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Late Bronze Age Clay Time!

Guest post by CREWS Visiting Fellow Cassandra Donnelly

During the last week of April the Program for Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) hosted its first ever “Late Bronze Age Clay Time! Study Break” in the Classics Lounge in Waggener Hall at the University of Texas at Austin. Approximately twenty  undergraduate and graduate students, along with some staff and their children, produced a veritable archive of Late Bronze Age (LBA) tablets.

We provided attendees with the clay (local-fire “Longhorn Red” clay from Armadillo Clay), three types of styluses, and one of three different instruction packets. The first type of instruction packet pertained to Mycenaean Greek and Linear B, the second to Ugaritic, and the third to Cypro-Minoan. Each packet included instructions for how to make one of three tablet types, a signary in the corresponding script, and a model text to write in the corresponding language. Each of the texts, once…

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Genghis Khan – 12 things you should know about the first Great Khan

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Academic cracks Voynich code, solving century-old mystery of medieval text – The Archaeology News Network

via Academic cracks Voynich code, solving century-old mystery of medieval text – The Archaeology News Network

 

Guest post: How Hadrian helped rebuild the Pantheon

FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Learn about how Hadrian created the Pantheon as we know it today from the ruins of previous temples built by Marcus Agrippa and Domitian. A guest post by Context Travel Tours.

Hadrian – the great unifier of the Roman Empire, the admirer of Athens, the architect, the poet, the visionary. As one of Rome’s most successful emperors, and one of the “five good emperors”, his accomplishments stretched to the furthest extremes of the Empire, and his name became associated with some of the most momentous building projects in the history of man.

Hadrian, of course, was responsible for the eponymous wall which marked the northern limits of Britannia. His love for Ancient Greece saw him rebuild and regenerate huge portions of Athens, he constructed the vast Temple of Venus and Roma, and he built what is still today, the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. The Pantheon, a…

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Scientists Discovered a 2,624-Year-Old Tree in a North Carolina Swamp. Climate Change Could Kill It.

Source: Scientists Discovered a 2,624-Year-Old Tree in a North Carolina Swamp. Climate Change Could Kill It.

 

Anthropologist Debunks the Paleo Diet-Dr Christina Warinner

 

10 incredible things you should know about the Mycenaeans

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Achilles’ Other Son, a Dream

SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Eustathius, on Homer, Odyssey, 11.538, 1696.40

“You should know that while Homer and many other authors say that the only child of Achilles and Deidameia was Neoptolemos, Demetrios of Ilion records that here were two, Oneiros [“dream”] and Neoptolemos.

They say that Orestes killed him in Phôkis accidentally and when he recognized that he did, he built him a tomb near Daulis. He dedicated the sword he killed him with there and then went to the “White Island”, which Lykophron calls the “foaming cliff”,and propitiated Achilles.”

ἰστέον δὲ ὅτι ῾Ομήρου καὶ τῶν πλειόνων ἕνα παῖδα λεγόντων Δηιδαμείας καὶ ᾽Αχιλλέως τὸν Νεοπτόλεμον, Δημήτριος ὁ ᾽Ιλιεὺς δύο ἱστορεῖ, ῎Ονειρόν τε καὶ Νεοπτόλεμον· ὃν ἀνελών φησιν ἐν Φωκίδι ᾽Ορέστης ἀγνοίαι, ὕστερον δὲ γνούς, τάφον αὐτῶι ἐποίησε περὶ Δαυλίδα, καὶ ἀναθεὶς τὸ ξίφος ὧι ἀνεῖλεν αὐτὸν ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν Λευκὴν νῆσον, ἣν ὁ Λυκόφρων (Al. 188) ῾φαληριῶσαν σπῖλον᾽ καλεῖ, καὶ τὸν ᾽Αχιλλέα ἐξιλεώσατο.

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No Seaxa Please, We’re from Essex!

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In 2003, Museum of London archaeologists excavated an exceptionally rich chamber grave (4m square and 1.5m deep) in the previously well-known but poorly excavated early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Prittlewell, Essex. Dubbed the ‘Prittlewell Prince’ and the ‘King of Bling’ upon discovery, it was provisionally attributed to the East Saxon ruler, Saebert. After nearly 16 years of intense research by a team of specialists, the publication is now out. Moreover, key finds go on display at Southend Museum from this weekend.

I can’t wait to read the publication and see the exhibition in due course. I also hope at some point to visit the site of the excavation: a rare example of grave for which its burial mound had long gone and no evidence survived, and yet a mound was ‘recreated’ as a present-day landmark to make the discovery site a tangible place in the historic environment.

When exploring the results…

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