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.... £120 for 50ml, gabarmyanmar.com Argentum Rebel Formulated in Grasse, this Oudh based fragrance is blended with leather, papyrus and smoke....
...Papyrus, planted long ago, is a reminder of Egypt and the Nile, and, as in Roman pools of antiquity, a symbol of imperial reach....
...Some good news Artificial intelligence is enabling researchers to read ancient works from the library at Herculaneum, almost 2,000 years after the papyrus rolls they were on were carbonised during the eruption...
...After 20 minutes of squelching and tightrope-walking on the thin logs laid by the trackers across the jellylike floating bed of sedges, ferns and papyrus, trying to avoid grabbing the raphia palms with the...
...Rouge Chaotique is a dense concoction of plum, papyrus, saffron, bergamot and patchouli. It’s about as un-summery as you can get, which is why I love it, and it smells good enough to eat....
...Papyrus scrolls gave way to the parchment codex; then, after Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type in the 15th century, transformed into the printed volume all of us are familiar with today....
...Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient Worldby Irene Vallejo, translated by Charlotte Whittle, Hodder & Stoughton £25/Knopf $35 Described as “a masterpiece” by Mario Vargas Llosa when it was first...
...Some of Furmanovich’s scenes are handpainted by Rajasthani artists on canvas or papyrus; trompe l’oeil earrings depict faceted gems – or op-art paintings, depending how you look; and there are figurative...
...About 5,000 years ago, stories that were originally passed down orally from generation to generation made their way on to clay, then papyrus, and now into a wide variety of different media....
...“But also because Homer is considered the father of history and history is meant to endure – the same as diamonds and gold – and I know Homer used papyrus, but I’ve always liked the idea of carving history...
...These milestones in the history of the Egyptian civilisation seem connected one to the other by the landscape: rows of date trees folding over carpets of papyrus, bamboo-like grass and ochre dunes of sand...
...The same client had the painting reproduced on papyrus and woven on a loom like a rug in Iran.”...
...He gives me his best patter, but not even I can raise much interest in papyrus papers or amber oil....
...Here is what the marketing blurb lists: maté, blackcurrant, ceylon black tea, violet leaves, birch, papyrus. Mixed emotions indeed. We were clearly flailing around....
...We set out early on a gently purring motor launch towards the centre of the lake where a papyrus “island” had broken away from shore....
...Talking of interesting shapes, recently I’ve been eyeing up Robert Kime’s incredibly elegant hexagonal shades made from papyrus. Of course, lampshades need not be bought off the peg....
...A professor was suspended last year, over claims he was involved in the theft of a papyrus, which he denies....
...(Papyrus, since you ask.) “It all has to be done on minimal rehearsal,” he tells me over the phone from his home in Burgundy. “Probably just a day. So it can’t be convoluted, it has to be practical.”...
...“Flowers are everywhere in architecture, from the stylised columns in Egyptian temples representing the papyrus flower to Roman architectural decor and the adornment of art nouveau....
...For now, there are hardly any tourists, and just a few hotels aimed at scuba divers, strung along a wild coast of crashing surf, sand dunes, papyrus and mahogany trees....
...Abruptly gone was the thirsting earth and the bony cattle, replaced with more than 7,000 sq miles of papyrus swamps and lagoons carpeted with waterlilies, and palm-tree islands, where giraffe tugged at the...
...Hence odd-sounding titles such as “Nfr = Beautiful” and “twf = papyrus”. Both deliver edge-of-seat beats and climactic highs. Coleman also revisits performance staples....
...Beyond a bed of papyrus we spotted a sitatunga, the mysterious aquatic antelope....
...Compared to papyrus, parchment or silk, one of paper’s most important properties was that it cost very little....
...Other treasures in the show include 2nd century BC fragments of poems by Sappho, the celebrated archaic Greek poet, which were found in a papyrus roll buried in the rubbish dumps of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt....
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