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World news
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 days agoIn a month of war, Iran's cultural heritage has suffered huge damage
Iran's war has caused severe damage to cultural heritage, infrastructure, and loss of life, notably impacting sites like Golestan Palace and Chehel Sotoun Palace.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
19 years agoIn Defense of the Persian Palace
Persian Palace architecture, characterized by exaggerated moldings, excessive cornices, and disregarded proportions, has become widely reviled in Los Angeles and is now banned in Beverly Hills due to concerns about neighborhood degradation.
Food & drink
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1 month agoIn a world where eating has become solitary and rushed, Ramadan restores something radical: shared time | Muhammad Abdulsater
Iftar synchronises people at sunset, transforming eating into a shared, deliberate ritual that reconnects nourishment with social and spiritual rhythm.
fromMedievalists.net
1 month agoBaybars and the Fall of the Syrian Assassins - Medievalists.net
The Nizaris had survived in part because of their position on a warring frontier. They had been irritating but, as a buffer state against the Franks, they fulfilled a useful function for their much bigger Sunni neighbours. Now even that usefulness was gone. As the Franks were forced back to their last enclaves on the coast, the Assassins looked increasingly anomalous - a Shi'ite nuisance in the midst of victorious Sunni orthodoxy.
History
History
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1 month agoDiscovery links Medieval Mosque to Roman Temple - Medievalists.net
A newly discovered Greek inscription at the Great Mosque of Homs suggests the medieval mosque may stand on the remains of a Roman-era Temple of the Sun, resolving a long-standing scholarly debate about the site's sacred history.
History
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1 month agoNew Medieval Books: A Medieval Case for Islam's Superiority - Medievalists.net
An eighth-century Abbasid letter to the Byzantine emperor defends Islam, critiques Christian misunderstandings, and reflects Abbasid-Byzantine diplomacy and Baghdad's intellectual life.
History
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 month agoMesopotamian Art and Architecture: The Birth of Art and Architecture in the Ancient World
Mesopotamian art and architecture began over 7,000 years ago, evolving from northern sites into Sumerian innovations and sustained through multiple ancient Mesopotamian periods.
History
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2 months agoReading in Byzantium: Literacy, Books, and a World of Texts - Medievalists.net
Byzantine reading was communal and performative, woven into religious, educational, and administrative life while preserving classical learning within a Christian intellectual framework.
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