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48 days ago

No Chardins? No Leonardos? We’re lucky the Louvre raiders had dreadful taste in art

The philistine thieves skipped the museum’s real treasures in favour of dull royal knick-knacks. Was the French cultural minister serious when he talked about their ‘immeasurable cultural value’?

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8 months ago

‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations

The red tape of government bureaucracy spans more than 4,000 years, according to n…

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