My novel involves time travel from the modern day to New Kingdom Egypt (14th century BCE). My characters bring home with them large quantities (equivalent of a handful of grocery bags) of jewelry....
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I will add that, in addition to all the Western Medical readings you can have, you can also do ones from Traditional Chinese Medicine. The pulses provide a lot of information about the state of th...
If there are a few injured humans and we presume their injuries are different (they could be related, like everyone has a broken bone but in a different place) then the humans can help the aliens h...
I don't think real-life sharks have that level of intelligence. But maybe I'm wrong or we can just assume that the sharks in your world do.
What do humans offer the sharks? Dogs became domestica...
One of the best adaptations for climbing is simply length of arms and legs (arms may or may not be necessary depending on the type of climbing). For example, my daughter was a great climber when s...
If they aren't necessarily equine, and can have things like cloven hooves, why not have prehensile hooves?
Prehensile hooves don't exist in the real world, as far as I know, but then, neither do u...
Are you able to send graphics? Or print them. If GPS coordinates may not be meaningful in 1000 years, why assume that your use of English will be? (Or any current language) If they can find the...
Instill a terror of fire. Either all fire or anything more than a cookfire (if some fire is necessary due to climate, wild animals, etc). If it's all fire, food is either eaten raw or lightly coo...
It looks decent, though I agree with Blade that the mountains suddenly stopping side to side is odd. At most they should continue into the ocean to form either lowlands that aren't inhabitable, se...
If the cataclysm focuses on the center of Europe, and the landmasses surrounding it pull in to fill the gap of what was destroyed, then you should have surviving people, animals, plants, etc in tho...
In the book The Martian, the main character accidentally freeze-dries his entire potato crop after an atmospheric breach. This is an author who did meticulous research. The potatoes were complete...
The only modern contagious disease I can think of that wasn't around then is HIV. But you'd probably know if you had it, and it's not easily transmitted (unprotected sex, and not all kinds, and sh...
Could they have pouches on their torsos that allow them to carry things? These could be there via evolution, genetic engineering, surgery, or something less invasive. A mouth and/or a prehensile ...
It depends on how intelligent the t-rex is. Wolves and lions, for example, can be tame if raised from birth. But black widows can not be. We don't really know how smart our historical t-rexes we...
The blood-brain barrier is more permeable during various points in development, notably infancy. But also in adolescence. If the disease affects only people with high levels of sex hormones and a...
