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Bryn Mawr Assistant Professor of English Pardis Dabashi is bringing together a host of scholars for “Persianate Worlds,” a ...
Estimated at $3-5 million, the silver cup bears blessings in Hebrew and Arabic, reflecting cultural ties in medieval Khorasan ...
As early as 3,000 BCE, Egyptians crafted dental crowns and bridges from gold. They also used seashells to replace lost teeth.
Fifty years after Monty Python and the Holy Grail redefined comedy, stars Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam look back on the ...
Chanel’s signature monochrome palette — the brand’s emblematic black and white — also seems to echo the visual simplicity of ...
As Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin pointed out, these are popular symbols of power and valor from the Middle Ages. "Typically ..
Recently, Reddit user optima0179 took to the popular Ask Reddit page to ask, "What has gradually disappeared over the last 20 ...
Whether you’re more likely to need a pocket knife to open a package or shave down kindling in the middle of the woods, having ...
If you're into that lived-in, cozy aesthetic, we may have just happened upon your new favorite trend... enter the brick floor ...
It was also Jones’ idea to set the film entirely in a medieval aesthetic (save for the ending ... which saw the film unfolding half in the Middle Ages and half in the present day.
A middle-age media guru confesses to a new obsession with TikTok and how the experience has changed his outlook on the future of media ...
In a particularly gracious version of this future world, aging is supported by health-care professionals who take, and treat, women’s pain seriously. While women outlive men by an average of 5.5 years ...