This instalment of the Silk Road series examines something the exhibit omits. It makes no mention of the slave trade. That trade began and flourished during...
This critique of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Silk Road exhibit continues with further distortions of history. This includes how Arabic numbers got their name,...
Navigation is one of the most important of the technologies of the Silk Road. It is what made parts of the Silk Road passable. Muslims try...
This fourth instalment of the Silk Road Notes series shows the distorted picture the Cleveland Museum’s Silk Road exhibit gives to the development of writing and...
These notes on the Silk Road exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History continue with a discussion of glass and ceramics. Again the exhibit gives...
This article continues the series about the Silk Road exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. As mentioned, the Silk Road exhibit betrays its name...
An exhibit, “1001 Inventions” is now showing worldwide, and what appears to be a small section, regarding the Silk Road, is on display at the Cleveland...
All throughout history terrorists of many nationalities and many religious backgrounds have used fear to overcome those they seek to annihilate. In the 20th century the...
This earth which God has given mankind sits in a vast universe, mingled with and obscured by trillions of other planets and stars spread out over...
Forty-five years ago today, two men finished walking on the moon after two and a half hours. They then began the second most important part of...