At Last: A Full-Text Database of Academic Publications That Lets You Search Journals Published Before the Nativity of Christ

At last, a database of full-text scholarly publications has been found that allows one to search academic journals published before the Nativity of Christ. As a man who regards the sixteenth century as the recent past and can recall the contents of a Sumerian clay tablet dated to 3000 BC, I rejoice at the news. But for young scholars, ancient knowledge is usually anything printed before the year 2000, which may well be the year their parents met.

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

At Last: A Full-Text Database of Academic Publications That Lets You Search Journals Published Before the Nativity of Christ

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s