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A magnificent display of antique sculpture in the Istanbul Airport Museum
A magnificent display of antique sculpture in the Istanbul Airport Museum. Frankly, the material is handled here far better than in most of Istanbul's city museums, which by no means always leave an impression of a high museum culture
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Science
In the 1960s, archaeologists from the Universities of Istanbul and Chicago worked on excavations in the region of South-Eastern Anatolia and found a mound there, covered with limestone slabs
In the 1960s, archaeologists from the Universities of Istanbul and Chicago worked on excavations in the region of South-Eastern Anatolia and found a mound there, covered with limestone slabs. The scholars documented the fact of the find, but the place did not interest them overmuch. So the mound lay
NB! · Archive · Architecture · The East · Heritage
The walls of Constantinople on the shore of the Sea of Marmara in the Kumkapı district, photographed in the 1870s by the Assyrian-Armenian photographer Pascal Sébah and the Frenchman Polycarpe Joaillier
The East · Interviews · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
I read Mikhail Piotrovsky's recent interview with the journal International Affairs, and here are some extracts
On the role of the East in the present-day cultural field: «It is no accident that in the world that has now revived and is called the East, universal museums are being created, for example the famous Louvre Abu Dhabi, and now a museum is being created in Saudi
The East · Art · Museums
Knife with a blue glass handle and an ivory sheath inlaid with precious stones
Ottoman Empire, 18th–19th centuries.
Archive · The East · Books · People
Alexandre Dumas in a Circassian coat during his three-month stay in the Caucasus
Alexandre Dumas in a Circassian coat during his three-month stay in the Caucasus. Dumas père travelled through Russia in 1858 to 1859, having come at the invitation of the patron of the arts Count Kushelev-Bezborodko, who is called the prototype of the Count of Monte Cristo, and, for
Archaeology · Archive · The East · Interviews · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage is holding an exhibition "The Archaeological Phenomenon" until 29 September
Until 29 September the Hermitage is hosting the exhibition "The Archaeological Phenomenon. Between Past and Future". Today an interview was published with the exhibition's chief curator, Natalia Sutyagina, Senior Researcher in the Hermitage's Department of the East. I decided to highlight the most interesting
NB! · Archive · The East · Art · Education · Society
Turkish Posters of the 1930s Promoting the Introduction of the Latin Alphabet
The East · London · Society · Humour
Remember that amusing story, worthy of a Richard Gere and Julia Roberts double act, about the Indian Maharajah who walked into a Rolls Royce showroom in London in 1920 dressed in ordinary clothes, only to be refused service and simply shown the door…
Remember that amusing story, worthy of a Richard Gere and Julia Roberts double act, about the Indian Maharajah who walked into a Rolls Royce showroom in London in 1920 dressed in ordinary clothes, only to be refused service and simply shown the door? He then changed into royal attire and
NB! · Archive · The East · Geography
A Rolls-Royce Crosses a River in Nepal, 1950
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