When I was a child, spending my summer vacations in rural Portugal, a distant relative of mine pointed to the bats flying around their house and told me to be careful. The story was that the bats were bloodsuckers, who would latch on to any warm-blooded animal, including myself, for a nightly snac[...]
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Dead Sea Scrolls at the ROM
Catch a glimpse of history this summer at the ROM. From June 2009 to January 2010, the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit will be running at the Royal Ontario Museum. It’s a chance to see fragments of the texts that are the earliest record, known to humans, of biblical documents such as hymns, prayers[...]