When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

The Babylonian map consists of a circular map. Along with that, there are a few pieces of text written in an an ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

The Kingdom of Dahomey was seen in Viola Davis’ historical epic The Woman King. The feature documentary had a world premiere in Berlin and will now screen at the Toronto Film Festival and the ...

Dahomey, the award-winning documentary by Mati Diop, imagines the voices of royal treasures looted from West Africa by European colonizers and returned only recently to their homeland, present-day ...

In her award-winning documentary Dahomey, director Mati Diop imagines the voice of royal treasures looted from West Africa by European colonisers and only recently sent back to their homeland in ...

Israel carried out one of the most intense bombardments of the past year, as warplanes launched 70 airstrikes, Lebanese security officials said. The barrage came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader ...

Set in November 2021, the Golden Bear-winning film charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey as they leave Paris and return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin.

Senegal has selected French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-winning contemporary doc Dahomey as its submission ... and distributed around the world,” Diop told us about the ...

Our critic reviews 'All That We Imagine as Light,' 'Caught by the Tides,' 'Dahomey' and 'Misericordia.' ...

From a new Great American masterpiece to a tragic tale of love and war in the Italian Alps — the highlights of this year's ...