Those responsible for her rewrapping had taken the opportunity to slip the remains of a second, even more damaged mummy into her bandages. Some embalmers and rewrappers had clearly struggled to prepare the deceased for the Afterlife.

Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, …

School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy theologized.

Enlightenment quarrels between pro-Frankish and pro-Gaulish factions were now a political curio, and only ancient Rome and Greece – so far removed in time and space that they seemed both utopian and achronic – provided any sort of positive historical referent.