Historian Sam Kean takes a journey through experimental archaeology in an effort to discover what life was like in the past. With novelistic interludes in every chapter, he tells us what the past tasted, smelt, felt, and sounded like. Join him as he fires catapults, knaps rocks, and makes medieval medicine.
To reach them on that deeper level, we need to inhabit their world…we need to feel the fabric of their lives.