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"How do you summarize a book that traverses every continent, plumbs the depths of human and paleontological history and skims both the ocean waves and the dead silence of outer space? "The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips …
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If we seek to resolve the conflicts of the present, we must first understand and resolve the conflicts of the past. See my Deseret News article "Why World War I and the Ottoman Empire Matter Today" …
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I published a book review of an engaging book "Civilizations of Ancient Iraq"co-authored by my former Akkadian Professor at Yale Ben Foster. …
"Noah's Ark: the facts behind the Flood. A recently discovered Babylonian tablet is a blueprint for a round-shaped ark that animals could board two by two." A fun read from The Telegraph. …
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"A 900-year-old medieval crypt, containing seven naturally mummified bodies and walls covered with inscriptions, has been excavated in a monastery at Old Dongola, the capital of a lost medieval kingdom that flourished in the Nile Valley." …
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