Archaeology News: The Birth of Animation

This is amazing! World’s first Walt Disney?
by Ryan Ball for Animation Magazine
Long considered a modern invention, animation has apparently been lying about its age. A 5,200-year-old bowl found in Iran’s Burnt City in the 1970s features a series of five images that researchers have only recently identified as being sequential, much like those [...]

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Modern Lit: The Secret of Lost Things, by Sheridan Hay

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Dickensian
More a coming of age story than a true mystery, The Secret of Lost Things is populated by a strange assortment of psychologically stunted characters who are memorable by virtue of their eccentricities. Poor orphaned, heartbreakingly young Rosemary travels to New York City from Tasmania, [...]

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