Posts Tagged ‘history’

New York City Illustrated, 1910

A century on, a tourist souvenir reveals the architectural wonders of a city long lost

The Indian Memory Project

Revealing the lives behind old photographs in India

In a first, a new dictionary of ancient Egyptian colloquial

The language was on the Rosetta Stone but the dictionary is only now being published


On the Egypt revolution and America’s War of 1812

A bad week in Egypt, but profound political change can take a very long time