EditorialPope Francis, center, during an interreligious meeting at the ruins of Ur, one of the world’s oldest civilizations and traditionally held to be the birthplace of Abraham, near Nasiriyah, Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialPope Francis, center, during an interreligious meeting at the ruins of Ur, one of the world’s oldest civilizations and traditionally held to be the birthplace of Abraham, near Nasiriyah, Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialJ?rusalem, Ornements arabes, 1854, Salted paper print from paper negative, Image: 23.4 x 32.1 cm (9 3/16 x 12 5/8 in.), Photographs, Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824?1872), For Salzmann history was in the details. Though the ravages of time, natural forc...
EditorialJ?rusalem, Ornements arabes, 1854, Salted paper print from paper negative, Image: 23.4 x 32.1 cm (9 3/16 x 12 5/8 in.), Photographs, Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824?1872), For Salzmann history was in the details. Though the ravages of time, natural forc...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: administrative account concerning the distribution of barley and emmer, Jemdet Nasr, ca. 3100?2900 B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Uruk (modern Warka), Sumerian, Clay, 2.44 x 1.85 x .65 in. (6.2 x 4.7 x 1.65 cm), Clay-Tablets-Inscrib...