Librarian's Muse

Situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea and inhabited since prehistoric times, the rock-cut capital city of the Nabateans, became duri...

  Book Review:   T he Manuscripts Club--the people behind a thousand years of medieval manuscripts by C hristopher de Hamel       Manus...

' Ambrosia '  is a  cultivar  of  apple  originating in  British Columbia , Canada in the early 1990s.  The original tree was first ...

Alice Elizabeth Kober  (1906–1950) was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of  Linear B .  Educated at  Hunte...

  Al pastor  (from  Spanish , "shepherd style"),  tacos al pastor , or  tacos de trompo  is a preparation of  spit-grilled  slices...