“William found a remarkable hill, a fragment of a mountain” and “called it Myzithras because they shouted it thus, and he made it into a...

In 1860 the chairman of the Select Committee on the British Museum, questioning Sir Anthony Panizzi, the museum’s principal librarian,...

Whenever the eunuch is invoked, it’s almost always in the sense that he is a distortion or perversion of nature that only a people as...