4,000-year-old tablets found in Iraq reveal ancient red tape
Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...
Book reviews: ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ and ‘How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art’
Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. Omar El Akkad’s new best-seller about the war on Gaza is “damn ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians' Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...
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It's the 'First Material Evidence' of World's First Empire
Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...
In new bestsellers, Chelsea Handler, the West and mass suffering, and more
Also, a C.J. Box novel, a magical sword, Alexander Vindman, the Trump campaign and more: the New York Times list for the week ...
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Ways to Change the World
In this episode of Ways to Change the World, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to award-winning author Omar El Akkad about his new ... style and why fostering a culture of kindness, giving ex-prisoners ...
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In His New Book, Omar El Akkad Examines the Dangers of Passivity During Israel’s War on Gaza
Omar El Akkad tells WW ahead of the Vancouver, B.C., stop on his Canadian book tour that he’s tired, understandably so. The writer’s newest book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been ...
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Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists
Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of Akkadian administrators have been uncovered by archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq's State Board of ...
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Pop Culture Happy Hour
Get obsessed with us. Four days a week, Pop Culture Happy Hour serves you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, books, videogames and more. Join arts journalists Linda ...
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London Review of Books
Italy is often thought of as a political laboratory, anticipating events in other countries: fascism in the 1920s; the showman-businessman turned politician in the 1990s; populism in the 2010s. Great ...