The Prado of North Africa
Roman mosaics preserved in situ are a rare delight—most are typically uprooted and whisked away…
Arabic
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The Twenty-Two Letters That Changed the World
As promised, the particulars of the Phoenician alphabet. It had twenty-two letters. They wrote from…
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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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A King, an Unfinished Business, and the Teutonic Custom
Once upon a time there was a prince. What he liked above all things were…
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The Poet Was Not Impressed
Back to Erzurum, then, as Pushkin saw it. Or rather, as he failed to. Begin…
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A Boy’s Own Summer at Erzurum
Having stepped aside for Kutuzov’s excursion from our survey of the Russo-Turkish wars — from…
