Although the urgent COVID-19 pandemic now garners almost all political attention, the more stealthily emerging crisis of climate change will, ultimately, have a more structural and encompassing impact and is, therefore, crucial to the outcome of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. Water is and will be a key factor in how societies will experience, and …
In 2018 the J. Paul Getty Museum presented the exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, curated by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole. This was the first in a series of exhibitions and publications seeking to explore how Greece and Rome influenced and were influenced by neighboring cultures and civilizations in the Mediterranean and Near East over a period spanning…