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Yale Humanities Quadrangle
April 1, 2021
When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies — faculty member Kevin van Bladel’s thoughts returned to his days as a...
Astrolabe (© stock.adobe.com), Egypt mummified animal (© wikimedia commons)
October 10, 2017
How to mummify something. How to build an astrolabe. Those are topics that one would not normally think of when reading a Yale course catalogue, but in each of these courses, these new faculty members in the...