The earliest work of Indian aesthetics is Bharata’s “Natya Shastra.” It consists of a few instructions to...
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The sacrifice of Polyxena by the triumphant Greeks (Attic black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora, c.570-550 BCE) / British Museum,...
From the biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian, c.1095 / Metropolitan Museum of...
Original of one of the Taureador frescos, probably ceremonial, from Knossos Palace, Crete, c.1450 BCE / Archaeological...
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The Quranic script from North Africa or Near East, ca. 750-800 AD is a unique combination of...
The Western world’s oldest surviving play is also one of its most sorrowful. Here’s a brief summary....
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Photo © iStockphoto.com/champja The rise in recent decades of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid...
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