In case you’ve not noticed, I’m a huge history fan.
One of the reasons is that I’ve constantly finding neat story ideas in news articles on historical items. For example, I just read this little piece:
http://archaeologicalmuseum.jhu.edu/the-collection/object-stories/a-roman-lead-curse-tablet/
The first thing that popped into my mind was an urban fantasy tale, based on the idea that a supernatural being had been cursed. When the archaeologist pulls the nail from the lead curse sheets, the supernatural being is free for the first time in two thousand years.
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