"... for an oriental philologist who undertook the study of art history was not seen as fully respectable, and an art …"

"The discovery of Iran was only the first step toward a much greater surprise: I recognized that something stood behin…"

"Even the threads that bind pre-Hellenic and archaic art to that of the people of the Levant have been much more energ…"

"It is clear that for Herbert Hunger, Byzantium was not an exotic phenomenon in the historical and political self-awar…"

"Music is become a complaisant and versatile handmaiden, and, since the impossible is demanded of her, she calls up al…"

"Both the peacock and the chicken passed through [Mesopotamia] on their way westward[;] the Sumerians called the chick…"

"The essential point in the definition of an algebra is that it is a vector space of finite dimension over a field. Th…"

"I think he would have made a great actor. His lectures were polished: He would finish at the right moment and march o…"

"It was adorned with many fine temples and monuments; among others, with a pillar cut out of one stone, twenty four ya…"