Souvenirs of Death
Egypt Today
He is not only sensitive to the sanctity of life, but also of the glorious history of his surroundings, “the gold-leafed dust of antiquity” in a land that he is unwittingly dismantling. In turn, there are epigraphs from the Qur’an, Arab poe...
Byzantium: the chosen ones from a visceral civilisation
Times Online
Here we find the tussle between Eastern and Western Churches played out, a crucible of high (and low) culture, of modern administrative practice, and a ferocious champion of the genius of antiquity. So why then is Byzantium not on every sch...
Grand tour of Italy
Financial Times
Here, in this city of antiquity and poverty, she looked more at home than in mercantile Venice. So, instantly, were our teenagers. They lit up on hearing the shrill negotiations of the station’s taxi drivers, stared wide-eyed at gnarled cig...
Avraham Biran, 98; excavated ancient Israeli city Tel Dan
Boston Globe
The inscription - which contained the words House of David - was dated to the ninth century BC and was hailed by biblical scholars as a unique find and evidence of the antiquity of King David's lineage. Some scholars, however, have question...
Art Review: Napoleon joins forces with video artists at the Frye
Seattle Times
Even now, as familiar as much of the imagery is, the vast scale, mystery and antiquity of Egyptian culture still thrills. The gallery devoted to Napoleon and his army includes late-18th-century letters signed with a confident scrawl by the ...
Stoking fear of The Other
Chicago Sun-Times
Stoking fear of The Other McCain's extreme tactics against Obama rooted in antiquity ... And then there were The Others. The Others were the scary outsiders who were not you, not your family, not your tribe ...
Zahi Hawass’ Egypt
Egypt Today
Antiquity museums all around the world hold special exhibits featuring small collections of Ancient Egyptian artifacts and charge exorbitant prices for the privilege of admission, but for a relative pittance the Egyptian Museum offers full ...
How the turtle got its shell
MSNBC
As turtle embryos develop, their shells grow directly from the animals' ribs, and adult turtles' ribs are fused to the shell carapace. Some scientists conclude this must have been how the shells originally developed in antiquity, too — norm...
Picasso is too low-brow for the Louvre
Times Online
Mr Loyrette says that the arrival of Picasso's works, amid permanent collections that range from antiquity to 1848, is part of a drive to renew the Louvre's historic vocation as a universal museum - but the exhibition is likely to fuel alle...
What to give the client who has everything? A banana
Daily Telegraph
But I think the Greek dramatists would also find plenty of material if they were suddenly reincarnated. After all, the tragic hero of antiquity is not a mere victim of circumstance, but a leader of men whose mistakes, or inherent flaws, lea...
