Museums in my pocket daya dissanayake Google has partnered with the Israel Museum to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them available online. These scrolls, dating back to the time of the birth of Christianity, had to be locked up in the museum due to their fragility. Till now only a few scholars and [...]
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culture vs. nature
Culture is departure from nature. It has been the way throughout man’s history. Man, Homo sapiens would have lived with nature till he became Homo symbolicus and then Homo eastheticus. Every step man took in the name of progress and advancement of his culture was a step further away from nature, yet man has not been able to define [...]