The air of a large hall in one of Cairo’s studios vibrates with the sounds of Sudanese music. A choir of 20 singers, accompanied by eight instrumentalists, have come together to breathe life into ...
Notes for the Nile : together with a metrical rendering of the hymns of ancient Egypt and of the precepts of Ptah-hotep (the oldest book in the world) / by Hardwicke D. Rawnsley ..
Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts ...
Egyptian myths, tales, and mortuary texts -- Sumerian myths and epic tales -- Akkadian myths and epics -- Hittite myths, epics, and legends -- Ugaritic myths, epics, and legends -- Collections of laws ...
A hymn dedicated to the ancient city of Babylon has been discovered after 2,100 years. Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the poem describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled ...
When I moved here, I promised myself to try to go to St. Louis with some regularity, as I had lived in a rural area for years. Recently, we visited the Free Fridays at the St. Louis Art Museum to ...