Saklain Syed

After photographs and video from the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol showed one of the participants – the...

The United States of America is not at a turning point. We took the wrong step years ago. We’re now...

Sometime between 1700 and 1100 B.C.E., four massive books, written in Sanskrit, were codified to create the Vedas. These included...

Imagine this: You are captaining a vessel northwards along the Coast of the Scottish Highlands. To your west are a...

So, What’s In A Name? Sometimes, what was an odd bit of cultural theorizing becomes mainstream; C.K., or common knowledge...

On a recent trip to see friends in Missouri, I challenged them to give me a bit of local folklore…...

Imagine this: The place is Japan; the time is pre-10th century C.E., and you have a friend. A friend who’s...

I didn’t actually time this to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Howard Carter’s disturbing of Tutankhamun’s tomb, but it...

(Inspired by white ground lekythoi)