We will start this post work by examining the inscribed Middle Kingdom of Egypt statue. This object is of interest for two very different reasons. Firstly, it is a beautiful…
Welcome to the HobbyistCue.com. In this post, we will explore aspects of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, concentrating on funerary architecture. The old Kingdom of Egypt saw a series of…
Would you like to know something about a city which is nothing like any European capital? A city which for many times was robbed, destroyed, burnt and bombed. But in…
The term Neolithic is to some degree a misnomer, since it means literally “New Stone Age,” referring to the rapid improvement and new variety in finely made stone tools. But…
East Asia as a whole had the highest economic growth rates of any part of the world in the decades following World War II. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea,…
The problems relating to population growth discussed above are serious enough, but the steep rise in all forms of environmental pollution, flowing from economic growth and technological change, is equally…
Economic development everywhere exacts a price. Perhaps the greatest of these for most of Asia is the ironic one that as people live better they live longer and, hence, the…
Origins of Civilization in India Of all world civilizations, India’s is the oldest still in continuous existence. If one defines civilization as involving a writing system, metalworking, and some concentration…
Apart from the all-important characteristic of population density, monsoon Asia—the area east of Afghanistan and south of what is now the Russian Federation—has other common features that make it an…