New Islamic Museum of Art exhibit shines spotlight on Iraq
The show found a temporary home at the museum largely thanks to the inspiration and practical endeavor of Oded Halahmy, an 86 ...
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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
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The Rassam Cylinder, a 10-sided prism from the 7th century BC with an inscription describing the reign of Ashurbanipal
The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...
Lecturer who attempts to predict future by analysing sheep livers gives Oscar forecast
A Leicester lecturer who attempts to predict the future by analysing sheep livers claims Cynthia Erivo will win an Oscar this ...
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Sherry Preston: What you can find in the Library of Congress
The original purpose of the Library of Congress was to provide unbiased research to members of Congress. Each year, the ...
Middlebury College2d
James Fitzsimmons
He taught at a number of institutions before coming to Middlebury and ... inscriptions as well as the basics of the writing systems themselves, from Mesopotamian cuneiform to Egyptian hieroglyphics to ...
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optical-character-recognition
A full-featured Document Layer for your application, providing the functionality of a flexible document management system, including storage, discovery, processing, and retrieval. Deploys directly ...