Dionysus, our intrepid enabler (2025), a three-foot-by-three-foot square acrylic on stretched canvas embodies the inner ...

This librarian wanted to know much more about the organisation of knowledge in Ashurbanipal's library, as there is a fair ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

Selena Wisnom walks the shelves of King Ashurbanipal’s library, revealing what the books tell us about the ideas circulating in 7th-century BC Mesopotamia ...

"They [ISIS] placed explosives at the temple here and detonated them." The temple where he is standing — Baalshamin — was dedicated to a Mesopotamian god of the sky and was one of the main features of ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

The temple where he is standing — Baalshamin — was dedicated to a Mesopotamian god of the sky and was one of the main features of the sprawling oasis city where caravans carried silk ...

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