By Adiel Kaplan The following episode takes place two-thirds of the way through the book. It begins on April 9, 2003, three weeks after the… Read More »The Headless King: The Journey of a 4,400-Year-Old Looted Statue From Baghdad to Queens during the Iraq War
By Adiel Kaplan Elizabeth Stone is a professor of archaeology at Stony Brook University, specializing in the study of how ancient Mesopotamian societies functioned.… Read More »Even Indiana Jones Never Flew a Kite
By Adiel Kaplan A clay nail from Mesopotamia of 2,500-2,340 BCE. The top half is covered all the way around with cuneiform writing… Read More »The Nail In The Box
By Adiel Kaplan The only things allowed in the Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscripts viewing room are a laptop, paper, camera and pencil. No… Read More »The Nail in the Box