An Etymological Dessert from Persian Apples
On Ribs, Heroes, and the Surprising Geography of Language Summer is upon us, bringing with…
Proto-Indo-European
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From Ice Cream to the Messiah
The conversation recently turned, as civilized discourses so often do on a sultry afternoon, to…
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Celestial Etymology
As a recent discourse happily brought us to matters of the firmament, it seems a…
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Under the Sky of Tengri
In one of the halls of the A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts in Almaty,…
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The Secrets of the Powder Box
In the Museum of Almaty, amidst a display dedicated to the city in the latter…
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What Does the Torsyq Keep?
In the Museum of Almaty, we stumbled upon an artifact I had never heard of…
