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In Its Own Class
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 113 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 43
November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST -- The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . . more
September 07, 2006 08:56 PM EDT -- I find myself with a dilemma, albeit a fortunate one. I am traveling to Iran to further research on a book and to accrue more personal experience with the people of the old Inner Asian trade routes. That . . . more
Oaxaca: Monte Alban
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 36 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 2
December 10, 2006 03:58 PM EST -- Here are a few photos from Monte Alban, the ancient Zapotec capitol that sits atop a flat topped mountain overlooking Oaxaca. The site is impressive itself, and so is the view. I hope to have a video soon. . . . more
Trade Routes
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 27 | rating: 10 | comments: 5
August 21, 2006 10:46 AM EDT -- Ascherson in his book Black Sea mentions that the European portion of the Inner Eurasian trade routes, at least by the evidence he has presented, and those from High Medieval Europe who traveled it like . . . more
November 10, 2006 09:50 AM EST -- Tradition has it that Isfahan's Friday mosque sits on what was once a Zoroastrian Fire Temple. Now, I have been inside mosques that used to be Fire Temples, most notably the Maggak-i-Attari in Bukhara . . . more
Back On the Silk Road
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 42 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST -- As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . . more
Menander The Guardsman
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 7 | rating: 10
September 19, 2006 12:00 PM EDT -- So, I've been hunting around for some time trying to find the source of this mysterious Byzantine Ambassador to the Empire of the Turks, one Zemarchos, that Grousset mentioned in his "Empire . . . more
October 09, 2006 11:45 AM EDT -- Christopher Columbus died 500 years ago this year, but how should Americans remember him this Columbus Day? Was he the grand explorer deserving of the honor long accorded him, or was he a rank imperialist . . . more
August 25, 2006 08:58 AM EDT -- I just finished Paul Kriwaczek's short travel-history book "In Search of Zarathustra" and for those of you out there who are, like me, not particularly religious, but curious as to the origins . . . more
From Srbsko to Tetin
by Mary C Legg
views: 83 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 22
July 31, 2006 07:05 PM EDT -- St Jan Tetin was the ancestral home of the Czech ruling family and the seat of St Ludmilla and St Wenceslas. Also closely related to Tetin is the myth of St Jan under the Cliff who is often represented . . . more
September 28, 2006 09:48 AM EDT -- This Day in History -- 1958:  Madagascar  voted for autonomy within the French Community. 1920:  In what became known as the Black Sox Scandal, eight members of the Chicago White . . . more
The Hagia Sofia
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 22 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
August 06, 2006 11:35 PM EDT -- Notes from my 2003 trip from Istanbul to Bombay, overland. When I think of the Hagia Sophia I imagine her as she looked two hundred years after Justinian commissioned her. I imagine all the splendor thinkable . . . more
Menander Is Mine
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 38 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT -- A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . . more
November 11, 2006 07:21 PM EST -- Two primary impulses drove me towards Yazd. First, I wanted to see the architecture of this old Silk Road city, to walk in Marco Polo's footsteps and see what he saw. My second goal was to see, interact . . . more
August 21, 2006 03:37 AM EDT --   When I lived in the area, this was one of the first places I visited. It's beautiful. The area, George Washinton's plantation & home. Visiting gives you a whole new perspective on . . . more
Hysterical Markers
by Angelique G.
views: 16 | rating: 7
April 18, 2007 04:21 PM EDT -- I've always loved history. I met my husband through history. I love my job because of the history. Walking in the same places as those that came before us creates a connection...of past and present . . . more
Persepolis
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 46 | rating: 10 | comments: 3
November 04, 2006 08:54 AM EST -- Author's note: this is nothing more than a thumbnail sketch of Persepolis. I hope to elaborate more on it at a future date.       Today was a day for the ancients, as . . . more
Tea with Omar Khayyam
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 11 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 3
November 16, 2006 11:33 PM EST -- Slowly we made our way north across the steppe. Small muddy streams cut wide gorges into an endless expanse of grassland. Even though it was fall here splotches of green dotted the prairies where fields . . . more
October 03, 2006 06:02 PM EDT -- This Day in History -- 1990: Germany reunified After four decades of Cold War division and with pressure from the German chancellor Helmut Kohl, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to a unified Germany . . . more
October 04, 2006 06:10 PM EDT -- This Day in History -- 1957: Sputnik 1 launched by U.S.S.R. On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union  launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, which orbited the Earth until 1958, inaugurated . . . more
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