A visit to the Louvre can be a gastronomic adventure—if you know where to look
The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...
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Mumbai Diary: Monday Dossier
Zaatar W Zeit, the F&B space from Lebanon in operation since 1999, made its foray into Mumbai at Pali Naka over the weekend.
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Decoding 6,000-Year-Old Language Can Bury North-South Divide
He travelled to the Zagros Mountains, where there was a trilingual inscription in old Persian cuneiform, Elamite, and Sumerian. Risking his life, Rawlinson managed to climb the sheer cliff and ...
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Brewed brilliance: the surprising role of beer in the rise of Sumerian society
The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...
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Neither archaeologists nor historians – it is AI that unlocks the secrets of ancient games
A few years ago, archaeologists stumbled upon something truly one-of-a-kind at the Shahr-i Sokhta (Iran) site: a board game.
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A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: ‘Elphie’ getting ‘Wicked’ to blind date comedy
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Gregory Maguire plans one of his few “Elphie: A Wicked ...
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A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: ancient games, armored fights, Ouroboros dance
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Ancient Game Night, “Ouroboros” and “¡A Bailar!” ...
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Book Review: Cyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship
Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...