Rachel Laudan

Time. c.1198-1166 BCE in Egypt. Year 29, second month of winter, day 10. On this day the crew passed the five guard-posts [Medjay guarding the necropolis]. of the tomb saying: “We are…

Linguists have developed ways to reconstruct dead languages like Proto Indo-European, the language from which many of the languages of western Eurasia, including Celtic, Latin, Sanskrit etc are descended.  Not…

Following on my earlier post on Chinese tourists and food in Europe, this analysis of the White House State Dinner for President Hu by the very expert Fuchsia Dunlop is…