FILE - Historian and author Thomas Cahill poses in his New York apartment on Sept. 29, 2006. Cahill, a scholar of ancient languages and belief systems with a knack for popular storytelling who engaged history readers with such bestsellers as “How the Irish Saved Civilization” and “Desire of the Everlasting Hills,” has died at age 82. Travis Loller, a family friend and Associated Press writer, says that Cahill died in his sleep Oct. 18. (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Thomas Cahill, a scholar of ancient languages and belief systems with a knack for popular storytelling who engaged history readers with…
