1. Musical Instruments of Antiquity as Illustrated in The Adventures of Asterix the Gaul - a professor of acoustics gave a not-entirely-spoof paper on the depictions of the musical instruments of the time, apparently the descriptions of the sounds they made are pretty accurate. He's written a bit more about it on his website http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Asterix-Music.html
2. The Jewish Museum in Camden is, in May, celebrating Asterix in Britain with an exhibition and talks (René Goscinny the writer of the text was Jewish). There's a talk from Oliver Kamm about his mum, Anthea Bell, who did the amazing English translations http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/asterix
I worked round the corner (at Diabetes UK) from the Jewish Museum for 8
years and had no idea it was there! It's fantastic and has some nice
ceramics too.
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