Archive for September, 2009


Book Signing Event

Wednesday, Sep 30th, 2009 by anders | 1 Comments
Filed under: Event

Lars Brownworth will be signing books at the Borders store in Stony Brook, NY on Tuesday, October 7th at 7:00 pm. Come out and get a signed book!
Lars Brownworth at Borders Books & Music
Tuesday, October 7th, 7:00 pm
2130 Nesconset Highway
Stony Brook, NY 11790
(631) 979-0500

Dig a hole, uncover history…

Thursday, Sep 24th, 2009 by lars | 0 Comments
Filed under: Byzantine, Current Events, new discovery

Yesterday I ran across an interesting story on CNN.  A little more than four years ago Turkish workers digging a tunnel to connect Asia and Europe ( hoping to relieve some of Istanbul’s horrendous traffic in the process) stumbled across the remains of a major Byzantine port.  Nicknamed Port Theodosius after the fourth century emperor [...]

The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition Editorial

Wednesday, Sep 23rd, 2009 by anders | 1 Comments
Filed under: Uncategorized

Lars Brownworth will have an editorial in the upcoming Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition. Look for it this Saturday, September 26th, 2009 and see how a soap dish changed history.
Edit: We were pre-empted but the story ran on October 24th.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574412984059644024.html

Lost to the West

Tuesday, Sep 15th, 2009 by lars | 3 Comments
Filed under: Byzantine, Current Events, Uncategorized, book, history, lost to the west

Today my book Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization goes on sale. I like to think of it (with apologies to Procopius) as a ’secret’ history- the 1200 years of the Roman Empire that you weren’t taught about in school.  Sure, we’ve all heard of Julius Caesar crossing the [...]