For my final project, I was inspired by an in-class discussion on mummies to research more about the ethics of […] Read More
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by Oliver Jones Presentation (headphones suggested): https://prezi.com/view/ctjHjYMoFvf8P9w9N8SQ/ For my final project, I was inspired to write and critique the movie, […] Read More
My website, Tales and Temples, presents its very first post! I analyze the historical accuracy of the architecture in Disney’s […] Read More
A majorly overlooked topic, but an increasingly more important one, when considering past art is dissecting how museums today obtained […] Read More
Interviewer: Good evening, everyone, I’m Grace LaBruno, and tonight on 60 Minutes, we will chat with one of the world’s […] Read More
Like many others, I was fascinated when I first saw the King Tut Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art […] Read More
Who knew behind all the glamor and beauty of one of Egypt’s most recognizable and well-preserved artifacts depicting ancient royalty–the […] Read More
Fantasy and Forgeries: Catching James Mellaart in his Web of Lies Inside the Mind of a Forger What is reputation […] Read More
PG-13 – 1801 – Repatriation/Antiquity – 220yrs Following the events of French and British occupation in Egypt (turn of the […] Read More
Cleopatra’s Needle explains why she feels misunderstood by America’s public. September, 1880. Interviewer: So, how would the public describe you? […] Read More
In the image above, some of you may not know the specific figure that Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein is looking […] Read More
Artist Michael Rakowitz’s new exhibition is full of gorgeous paper mache recreations of lost Iraqi artifacts, alongside major gaps in […] Read More
Sophie and The Temple The Temple of Dendur was an object of my imagination. To a shorter-than-average kid, it seemed […] Read More
(Allegedly) found on a wall in dwellings in Çatalhöyük, Turkey, this painting could be the first known landscape painting done by […] Read More
Today we will look closely at two more monuments intended to glorify kings, created about 500 years apart. Building on […] Read More
Why are so many of the objects we studied in this unit in European or American museums? Why do terrorist […] Read More
Two topics today: 1) Why did millions of Americans stand in line for up to five hours to catch a […] Read More
Spaces for Christian worship, and the images that adorned them, did very different things than the temples in which Mediterranean […] Read More
One of the most innovative and beautiful buildings in the world has meant many things to many people over the […] Read More