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  • Chinese Calcuttawallah: Articulating a Diaspora Ethnic Identity in India

    Roy and Basu explore the Chinese diaspora's cultural imprint and identity evolution in Kolkata's twin Chinatowns.

    November 5, 2025
    Read more: Chinese Calcuttawallah: Articulating a Diaspora Ethnic Identity in India

A black and white photograph of Hermann Gross holding a metalworking tool, with an in-progress sculpture before him.

Hermann Gross: a protean German Expressionist artist who chose to live and work in the north of Scotland

Robin Jackson explores the life and extraordinary range of work of 20th century German artist Hermann Gross

  • Edinburgh University Press
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Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

Is there any such thing as a new idea? Bryony Coombs discusses similarities in artistic expression, centuries apart.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • September 30, 2024

Scythian Gold: An Extract from The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball

In this exclusive extract from chapter 6 of The Eurasian Steppe, author and archaeologist Warwick Ball explores the material culture of the nomadic Scythians, a cultural group that flourished in the Eurasian Steppe in the first millennium BC. What has…

  • Helena Heald
  • September 3, 2021
Hibis Temple, Kharga Oasis, Egypt

How to Find Persians in Egypt: The Archaeology of Achaemenid Egypt

When I first proposed to write about the Persians in Egypt, in a seminar at the University of Michigan, my professor laughed. She laughed because it was a well-known fact among Egyptologists that there was little evidence for this period…

  • Zuzana IHNATOVA
  • December 16, 2019
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