Oh my god, we're back again! (Please tell me you get the reference, or I'll really feel old) We are travelling back to a magical, highly glossed, campy, whimsical era. A time when movie studios looked at the Middle Ages and collectively decided: "You know what this feudal system needs? More crop tops, a synth-pop soundtrack, and characters who look like they belong in a hair commercial."Have you guessed our first official series theme? In my intro post, I promised you autopsy

For the last few years, I have been held captive in the beautiful, exhausting, and occasionally soul-crushing vortex that is PhD research #stockholmsyndrome. I love the past. I love archaeology. Mostly, I love the way that human stories echo across echelons of time. When you stay in academia long enough, you develop a hyper-specific type of cognitive dissonance. On one hand, you spend years of your life training your brain to dissect the past through intensive analysis of wri