Antiquities Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/antiquities/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Antiquities Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/antiquities/ 32 32 Baghdad: The Once and Future City of Stars https://www.publicbooks.org/baghdad-medieval-muslim-astrology/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 16:00:42 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47051 The city testifies to the vast intellectual curiosity of medieval Muslims, and the splendor they translated from astrology into their designs.

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]]> Finding Nowhere https://www.publicbooks.org/finding-nowhere-mapping-the-future-study-of-antiquity/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 16:00:29 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47359 What does the ancient world look like beyond Greece and Rome? Could imagining a collective human future start with seeing the past anew?

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