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European civilization is built on ham and cheese, which allowed protein to be stored throughout the icy winters. Without this, urban societies in most of central Europe would simply not

Imagine there was a script INVENTED FROM SCRATCH BY ONE MAN in the 20th century, now used by hundreds of thousands of people and becoming the defacto standard for a

This is an untouched box of the legendary Hagoromo Fulltouch chalk, made in Japan circa 2014. The company closed down in 2015, and while a version of the chalk is

This is potentially a cultural tragedy happening as we watch in horror - I know this library quite well - if it has indeed been destroyed, the losses are incalculable,

Churinga (or tjurunga) are the most important physical evidence of the intellectual heritage & artistic genius of the Aboriginal people. I strongly believe that the effective prohibition on displaying them

The end-stage of a miniaturization trend that had been accelerating from the 12th cent, this manuscript could only have been made after the introduction of the lens. One of the

I completely agree with Martin Schøyen (and others): anything written by hand is a manuscript, regardless of the medium. So all cuneiform tablets, all ostraca, all Mayan codex vases, all

This is a Sabean plaque from Yemen, but the letter forms are more rigidly geometric than usually seen, and so at first glance I'd say this is likely a modern

Owen Simmons' 1903 'The Book of Bread', is famous in the book world as, arguably, the first photobook. But the usual green cloth trade edition doesn't fully convey how remarkable

Why? Christies failed to adhere to a non-legally binding, non- enforceable 50 year old UNESCO resolution ignored by almost all museums in the Middle East and Asia & often, for

A heartstoppingly beautiful 15th century Timurid Qur'an copied on Ming Dynasty gold-painted colored paper, is coming up for auction @ChristiesInc in London on 25th July. Estimate $780 000 - $1.2m.

This shames Australia."It was blasted by Rio Tinto, along with a second sacred site, on Sunday, and the destruction was made public late on Tuesday. The mining giant received Ministerial