A rare collection of Islamic medical manuscripts has gone on display for the first time, illuminating medical traditions that developed in the Golden Age of Islamic culture, between the 9th and 17th centuries AD. Based at the Royal College of Physicians in London, and curated by Professor Peter E Pormann from The University of Manchester, The mirror [...]
The Mirror of Health: Discovering Medicine in the Golden Age of Islam
May 13, 2013
Filed Under: News, Exhibition, Middle East
Excavated Jericho bones may help combat TB
September 6, 2008
Filed Under: Issue 31, News, Middle East
Scientists use ancient bones to try to uncover the origins and evolution of tuberculosis
Alexander’s Tomb
March 4, 2008
Filed Under: Issue 28, Books, Middle East
The final resting place of Alexander the Great is one of the famous unsolved mysteries of the ancient world. After he died in Babylon in 323 BC his body was apparently hijacked by Ptolemy and taken to Egypt to be the propaganda centrepiece of his new kingdom. There it stayed for generations until being lost [...]
Shadow of the Silk Road
November 4, 2007
Filed Under: Issue 26, Books, Middle East
Shadow of the Silk Road Colin Thubron Chatto and Windus, £8.99 Chosen by Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology UCL. Roger has worked in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran, and is interested in the sorts of long-range connections and exchanges of commodities and products that lie at the heart of [...]
Three Faces of Monotheism
September 3, 2007
Filed Under: Issue 25, Diary, Middle East
The latest exhibition at The Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, entitled Three Faces of Monotheism, is dedicated to the symbols of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. On display are architectural elements, jewellery, ritual objects and other items ranging from the 3rd to the 13th centuries AD. The exhibition reveals how each religion represented itself to the [...]
World’s Oldest-Known Jewellery
September 6, 2006
Filed Under: Issue 19, News, Middle East
New research indicates that self-adornment seems to be an archaic human trait
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