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The nineteenth-century commercial core laid out on Parisian lines — wide boulevards, Belle Époque façades, and behind their doors some of the most important independent art spaces in the country. Townhouse, Mashrabia and their neighbours operate here in old flats and workshop buildings among the mechanics, printers and coffee houses. Rough at street level, serious inside.
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How a newly excavated workers' quarter reframes pharaonic history
A major survey travels to the West Coast, bringing ancient artefacts that shift focus from royal opulence to the daily lives of those who built the empire.
The letter set loose, the line woven, the arabesque the West once threw away — and the women who built modern abstraction out of all three, then got written out of it.
Abstraction is usually told as a Western invention that arrived elsewhere late. Saloua Raouda Choucair, Etel Adnan, Madiha Umar and a room of others tell it differently — often as the only woman in the movement, building modern form from the geometry, craft and calligraphy their own culture already held.
The Qur'an never mentions a ring. What grew in that gap instead: a demon, a seal, seven signs nobody can trace, a thousand years of amulets, and a star that ended up on a flag.
A fisherman pulls up a copper jar stopped with lead, and the mark of a signet ring is pressed into the lead. Everyone hearing this in ninth-century Baghdad knew what came next — they knew it from the lid. The strange part is that the ring they all knew about is not in the Qur'an.
Seven kings, one for each day of the week. A portrait of Fever. Two spirits keeping a bathhouse warm. What the manuscripts actually show — and what the lamp replaced.
Folio 35v of a manuscript in Oxford shows the public baths at Tiberias in cutaway. Upstairs, people washing. Downstairs, two jinn tending the furnace, mid-conversation. It is not what most of the world expects — and it is much closer to what the unseen was actually understood to be for. A long read across twelve centuries of manuscripts, fieldwork, survey data and horror cinema.
Discoveries in the Bubasteion Necropolis offer fresh insight into Egypt's military and diplomatic ties during the 18th Dynasty
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered three tombs dating to the New Kingdom period in the Bubasteion Necropolis at Saqqara, revealing inscriptions that shed light on the region's military and diplomatic connections with the Near East.
Egyptian excavations uncover rare gold currency and hundreds of ancient texts at the 'Ain al-Sebil settlement
Archaeologists have revealed a remarkably preserved mud-brick settlement dating to Egypt's Byzantine period, containing unusual coinage and over 200 inscribed pottery fragments that illuminate everyday existence in this remote desert community.
