On Arab intellectuals during the revolution
Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?
Hypnotism for Everybody by Pandit Lakshmi Doss, Chennai, India, 2004
It reflects a particularly Indian fondness for mystical possibility paired with a gift for gab
What to make of this 19th C. Arab-Chinese-Peruvian portrait?
Long distance cultural exchange began much earlier than we sometimes imagine
Robert Clark’s extraordinary photos of Peru
They are beautiful but also temporally confusing in unexpected ways
Reading the 1913 report on the discovery of Machu Picchu
How did Hiram Bingham ‘discover’ the Lost City of the Incas? He asked directions. Typical