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At Tomio Maruyama near Nara, archaeologists uncovered an iron sword more than two metres long from a fourth-century burial mound. A rare shield-shaped mirror lay in the same mound. Its size suggests that this was never an ordinary weapon. Whoever placed it underground wanted it to mean something long after they were gone. Source: reporting on the Tomio Maruyama Kofun excavation, including Smithsonian Magazine. #archaeology #japan #kofun #ancientsword #history

I grew up somewhere in the eastern Roman world, in the lands we would now think of as the Middle East. My father was rich, pagan and frighteningly possessive. He wanted me hidden away from men, suitors and the outside world, so he built a tower and shut me inside it. It was meant to keep me obedient. It did the opposite. Servants smuggled Christian writings into the tower, and I read them in secret. While my father thought he had sealed me away from danger, I converted. When he found out, he was