Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Admonitions Scroll (sixth - eighth century AD). Chinese painting This week we're roaming ...

The Admonitions Scroll is one of the most important paintings in the world. It was originally painted by Gu Kaizhi (about AD 345?406), considered to be the father of classical Chinese figure painting.

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The scroll in question, known as PHerc. 172, is one of three stored at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in England. A team involved in the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition offering ...

Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One of the first words, written in ancient Greek ...

A badly burnt Roman scroll destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been “unwrapped” for the first time in 2,000 years by using AI. The document, which looks like a lump of ...

There was no point in striking the wall with my fist. The sheetrock had suffered a few hundred dollars, but no cash was found behind the wall for the repairman who’d been called by my wife. My ...

2:59 Biden announces Israel-Hamas ceasefire, remaining hostages to be released It marked a striking admonition by Biden, who is departing the national stage after more than 50 years in public life ...

But on the back half of that, are there times when heavenly admonitions supersede political agendas? It might seem aggressive to make a comparison between what’s happening now in the United ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation Wednesday to deliver stark warnings about an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and ...

It ignores the ethical standards written into law by Congress and relies entirely on nonbinding admonitions about how the justices “should” behave, leaving the justices free to pick and choose ...