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Archeology

  • Letters from Persepolis

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    On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders

  • The original Dybbuk

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    A story about afterlife. « A saint! What do you mean he’s a saint! the scholar says. He’s a librarian! Are librarians saints? »

  • Art before art

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    On Paleolithic painters & speculative criticism.

  • An archeology of the air

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    On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm

  • What is a pillar?

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    In 2010, OMA was invited to take part in a competition for the Damascus National Museum. It was part of a concerted effort toward a political « rapprochement » with Bashar al-Assad. Three months later, the entire effort was cancelled. Civil war was about to break out.

  • A breast is a breast is a breast

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    To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.

  • A kayak in Zierikzee

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    Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.