Gulf of understanding: The way we see the Earth has never been set in stone
Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.
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Ancient city once home to Cleopatra is disappearing at an unprecedented rate: 'Sounding the alarm'
"The true cost of this loss extends far beyond bricks and mortar." Ancient city once home to Cleopatra is disappearing at an ...
Remembering Assassin's Creed Origins, the game which opened out the mysteries of the Great Pyramid
One of these things is to do with anytime some academic type puts an oil painting in an X-ray machine or something like that ...
Greek Reporter3d
World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece’s Classics, From Homer to Sappho’s Poems
As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...
The incredible African city that was once Egypt's capital for 973 years
This stunning seaside city is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast and once stood as Egypt's capital city for almost a ...
New Scientist3d
Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
Imprint3d
How our libraries and archives are dying and why we should care
In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, a great library burned. It was said by some to have held upwards of half a million ...
Alexandria Times5d
Alexandria Celebrates Women: Martha Washington, the ‘Mother of the First Ladies’
When Martha Washington created the role of First Lady, she too hoped her FLOTUS successors would follow her lead.
History Today6d
The Library of Ashurbanipal
Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...