Textual Cultures, Material Cultures

 Ruins of the shrine of Nebi Yunus (“the prophet Jonah”) in Mosul, January 2017 ( VOA )                                        ...

Embed from Getty Images Chuck Berry was never my favorite musician growing up. As I’ve written before, the first musical a...

  Modern town of Palmyra (Tadmur), Syria, c. 2006 photo by Soman via Wikimedia Commons About 3 years ...

Chanan Tigay, The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2016) The...

This month, Smithsonian magazine has a long article by Jo Marchant on an important Mycenaean tomb at Pylos, dubbed...

 Sebring, Ohio: North 15th Street (August 2014) There has been an interest since the election in geographic and sociocultur...