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Contemplating where we come from and how that makes us who we are is a lengthy process; all the words and pages are sometimes not enough....

Photo of a ceiling in Hasht Behesht, Isfahan, Iran by Diego Delso (via WikiCommons) When a certain Twitter-savvy president took to the...

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Mummified hand from the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon When I visited the Pompeii exhibition during its...

The reconstruction of historical sites is such a regularly occurring practice that we seldom blink when they are scaffolded and taped off...