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Despite the costly efforts of Arab activists and citizens over the past decade of the Arab Uprisings, today no Arab state can claim to be fully democratic. Two countries, Egypt and Tunisia, traveled farthest down the path towards democracy, and Tunisia witnessed ten years of democratic elections–but today neither country protects the rights of citizens […]
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In this, the first of three posts, T. W. Körner, author of Calculus for the Ambitious (2014) sheds light on the life of Joseph Fourier - a mathematician and physicist who got caught-up in the French Revolution, and managed to help found modern Egyptology.
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The land and history of Egypt have fascinated Western visitors since the time of Herodotus, and probably earlier. The Greeks allegedly tried to disguise their reaction to the gigantic remains of Egypt’s past by naming them with diminutives: ‘obeliskos’, a little ‘obelos’, or cooking spit; ‘puramis’, a small cake.
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At Cambridge, we're celebrating the scholarship behind some of our favorite creepy Halloween traditions. In October, the mummy is a staple in haunted houses, costume contests, and scary stories. But outside of Halloween horror, mummies are important cultural artifacts, and studying them gives us invaluable information about ancient cultures from their diets to their diseases.
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