This week, Dear Reader, I won’t be posting, as I’m doing research for my next book. I’m staying in the empty apartment of a New York City friend and will be spending all my time here, at the New York Academy of Medicine:
And here, at the New York Public Library. Back next week!
Several thousand years ago, a scribe writing cuneiform bit his clay tablet. A modern curator saw the teeth marks and brought the tablet to his dentist, who estimated that the teeth marks had been made by a seven-year-old boy.