with Friend--
saw among other items, a 4-5th century stele from Burma--possibly oldest artifact ever found
and my friend mentioned by name in this NYTS article.
Make sure you take a look at this, as you will not find such good photos of the items in the show anywhere else.
In fact, looked like they only allowed the NYTS and no one else, to take photos.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/arts/design/art-of-devotion.html#
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Yuan Dynasty and death of Kublai Khan--from wiki
The Yuan dynasty created the "Han Army" (漢軍) out of defected Jin troops and an army of defected Song troops called the "Newly...
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https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-post-apocalyptic-books
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The maker of this replica seems to have assumed, anomalously, that the corner towers were in the Banteay Srei style -- visually, as you can ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua55nu0X_Ro