Wednesday What's New in History

by Reedstilt

Previous Weeks

This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.

Mictlantecuhtli
caffarelli

Castrati in the news! Read all about Farinelli's surprisingly nice teeth! Some speculation that Farinelli was an early adopter of a new technology called the "tooth-brush." (The academic article it is citing is from 2014, not sure why this is being published on Forbes now, but whatever!)