Not Made in Damascus
Last time we went through the Kütahya crockery and the words hiding inside it. But…
Akkadian
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A Style Guide to the Russian North
Having taken a brief inventory of my journal, I realised, with a touch of chagrin,…
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A Guide to Winged Angelology
This wooden cherub of nineteenth-century vintage once adorned a house transported from the abandoned settlement…
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Herding Cats through the Millennia
The history of our relationship with felines did not begin with mutual endearments, but rather…
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The Woodcutters’ Tongue and the First Alphabet
What language did the Phoenicians speak? Phoenician, of course. In terms of linguistic classification, it…
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The Word Shapes the World
Learning Turkish goes on rewarding me with marvellous revelations. The latest unit of the textbook…
