In the province of Hatay, in southern Turkey, there is a mountain range locally known as Nur Dağları. Arabs call it Jabal ...

When we think of the great empires of history, the Romans tend to steal the show. Although their empire arguably has had the greatest worldwide cultural impact, it was by no means the largest ever to ...

An excerpt from Namit Arora’s Introduction to ‘When I See, I Sing: Verses in Translation of Baba Farid, Namdeo, Kabir and ...

Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They oversaw an era of Islamic military dominance... city-building… brilliant scholarship, and technological ...

Donald M. Kendall, former chairman of the board and CEO, conceived the gardens which bear his name. He imagined an atmosphere of stability and creativity. The sculpture collection was started in 1965 ...

Image Cortesía de Andrés Cedillo As a sculptural landscape proposal, the design of UNAM's Sculpture Space draws inspiration from pre-Hispanic concepts related to cosmogony and astronomical ...

The piece is expected to sell for between $5 million and $7 million. The “otherworldly” sculpture is made of carved and polychrome wood, which Carrington painted with depictions of “hybrid ...