When I started my career as a professional literary translator, I began coming up against a mysterious “English reader” whom academics and editors kept referring to when they looked over my work, l…

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A conversation with Naomi Pitamber about the art and architecture of the empire of Nicaea (Nikaia), the Roman state that emerged in Asia Minor after the disaster of 1204. This art is often overlooked…

Richard Utz visits Marc Bloch’s memorial at the Panthéon in Paris and reflects on the medieval historian’s legacy as a scholar, soldier and Resistance fighter.

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Mehr als 100 Jahre ging man in der Forschung davon aus, dass die Herrscher im antiken Assyrischen Reich im Vorderen Orient auf einer Königsliste vollständig aufgelistet sind. Die Altorientalisten Dr. ...

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Over the past two generations, the boundaries of the classical world have been stretched to the steppe frontier of China...

The National Museum of Tajikistan will present an exhibition in Rome later this year, displaying cultural and archaeological heritage spanning about 2,500