05 Jul 2017 Akhenaten: Imperishable Art of an Iconoclast: Creativity Blossoms in the Desert—Part I By anand balaji History & Tradition 0 Never before had a pharaoh ushered daring, almost bizarre and inconceivable transformations in religion and statecraft as Akhenaten did. Not only did he oust the pantheon of traditional gods and shift the royal capital from Thebes to Akhetaten down... Read More
20 Oct 2016 Herodotus, Cato the Censor and Josephus: Understanding the Life and Times of Historians of the Ancient World By MartiniF History & Tradition 0 For thousands of years, we turned to history to explain the what, why and how an event happened. Although “historian” did not become a professional occupation until the late nineteenth century, the purpose of the investigation and analysis of... Read More
01 Apr 2016 Atlantis of the Sands and The Lost City of Ubar: Lost, Found, and Lost Again By David Millar Archaeology & Science 0 The myth of the Arabian ‘lost city of the desert’ can be traced to a book of bedtime stories dating from the early ninth century, which was largely responsible for the European romantic perception of Arabia as a place of harems, flying... Read More