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As war raged across the jagged Afghan countryside, the staff of the Afghan National Museum spirited away, piece by piece, to hiding places all over the Kabul region, each time risking their lives, sworn to silence, it was a secret they kept until the…

In the shallow waters of Aboukir Bay, in the ruins of three ancient cities, French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio discovered a number of relics. With this book, he presents photographs of the excavation process as well as connecting the…

This collection is about Paracelsus and the wide range of issues he explored, and ones taken up by many who were directly or indirectly affected by the same mental universe that sustained his thought and writings. This volume includes strong…

Gathers sixteenth-century writings about ethics, mysticism, and Jewish spirituality by some of the many teachers in the Galilean community of Safed.