These days I trip out to the garden, settle myself in a cozy corner, the winter sun pouring on my back at 11am with Lyman Ward, a cripple and eminent historian, documenting the life of his grandmother ...
It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death, it was ...