OUR FAVORITE THINGS
We know we aren’t supposed to pick favorites, whether among children, pets, or articles in the magazine, but we have to admit that it would be hard for a team of editors not to love “Formatting Bronze Age Tablets,” which appears in this issue’s Digs & Discoveries section. The image of ancient Greek scribes toiling away at their tablets more than 3,000 years ago and devising ways to make their work clear and comprehensible definitely struck a chord with us. Thankfully, we don’t have to edit lists of bushels of grain or flocks of sheep like those scribes did, and instead can bring you our annual Top 10 Discoveries. There were so many wonderful finds from which to choose, including nearly five dozen mummies in their painted sarcophagi from the…