Rock, of ages…
Bonham’s, a London auction house, is about to gavel off an 1800 year old bust (actually, an acroterion– a kind of architectural ornament often found decorating the corners of a sarcophagus) that bears more than a passing resemblance to a more modern royal:
Read the entire (and entirely too synchronistic) story in the (London) Mail.
As we rethink the Bardo Thodol, we might send a grateful thought to William Caxton (who introduced the printing press to England); on this date in 1485, he published Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Mort de Arthur (between the two edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that he also published).
