As one of the oldest instruments and a precursor to many of today’s stringed instruments, the lyre has become a musical emblem. It has earned this title thanks to its role in the history of music. The first instrument resembling a lyre can be found with the Sumerians; with the Egyptians, we encounter the lyre … Read more
My father and my grandfather pitched their tents here before me. True believers for twelve centuries, they settled in this land and none of them had ever heard of an underground palace, nor did those who came before them. And behold! A Frankish man from a faraway land arrived, many days’ journey away, and he … Read more
Alongside Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform script is among the oldest known scripts. It preceded the still unknown Phoenician, so-called “Linear B” script. Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered by Champollion, while the Phoenician script remains a mystery. Emerging from obscurity, cuneiform script became a subject of great interest worldwide in the 17th century, so it cannot be said … Read more
Folklore is full of stories about the miraculous creatures of nature. Grandmothers used to tell their grandchildren beautiful stories in which the main characters were fairies, dwarves, mermaids, angels, and in which their characteristics, actions, and ways and forms of their appearances were described. Stories about these miraculous beings exist in numerous cultures from the … Read more
We all dream of immortality. As if unconsciously knowing that nothing less can satisfy us. But we mix it up with infinite life, which would be nothing but a source of new sufferings. And it is precisely eternity that calls and awaits us. Honestly speaking, who among us is not afraid of death? Even the … Read more
