This week's update features the Mitford sisters, Amazon warriors and the lost city of Cambodia.
* A number of Amazon warriors' names have been revealed amidst 'gibberish' on Ancient Greek vases.
* The discovery of an enormous tomb at Amphipolis in northern Greece, dating to the time of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, has enthused Greeks, and is a welcome distraction from the dire economic crisis.
![The painted replica of a c. 490 B.C. archer (at the Parthenon in Athens) testifies to German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann’s painstaking research into the ancient sculpture’s colors. The original statue came from the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina [Source: Smithsonian]](http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/gods_jul08_main.jpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg "The painted replica of a c. 490 B.C. archer (at the Parthenon in Athens) testifies to German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann’s painstaking research into the ancient sculpture’s colors. The original statue came from the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina [Source: Smithsonian]")
* We always imagine Greek statues to be white marble but the reality is that the statues were painted in extremely bright colours ...
* The temple of Mithras: how do you put London's Roman shrine back together?
* Victorian inventions that didn't change the world – in pictures.
* A day out at the gallows and other bygone photographic oddities.
* A look at Britain's most visited cities.
* Eighteen powerful photos of the forgotten indigenous soldiers of the First World War.
* The Mitfords: six sisters who captured an era ...
* Wiltshire's 'Neolithic' long barrow burial chamber opens but would you be tempted to be buried there?
* How lasers revealed a lost city ...
* Why is the Birmingham accent so difficult to mimic?
* What would you have done? Terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War and why we’re not as different from the Nazis as we like to think.
* The Scottish referendum last week certainly caused a stir but the history of the UK Parliament is anything but dull ...
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* A dispute has broken out between an Ecuadorean ministry and the Galapagos Islands over where the preserved body of Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George should be housed.
* Twenty-one reasons to love and hate museums ...
* Ten gorgeous quotes from banned books.
* Is Downton Abbey the best metaphor for the publishing industry?
* 'Amazon, we want to talk to you about Kindle Unlimited.'
* Publishing’s holding pattern: the 2014 salary survey.
* Do we need graphic descriptions in crime fiction?
* A review of Great French Passenger Ships by William H. Miller.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?