Dr. Stout's handcrafted art and sculpture in Burmese jadeite.
All work below hand carved by Dr. Joseph Stout.
Chimeric Cow, Swan Idol, Frangipani Flower, Spiral, Tridacna
The Sumerians were ancient when the pyramids were built. Their religion and culture shaped ours, yet they were forgotten for 3,000 years.
I think right now there is a hill in either Syria or Iraq that has bulldozers digging into a lost civilization from the period of Sumer. So from, you know, the very earliest civilizations on Earth, they are destroying their own heritage right now - and selling it to me.
Ibn Khaldun wrote in the 14th century and spoke about the spiral nature of history. He saw the Mongol invasion do the exact same thing the contemporary rebels just did - move through the same cities in the same order because that's the only way to get to Damascus. And it happened very quickly.
How Balancing Selection keeps our two party system in unstable equilibrium to the benefit of the ultra wealthy 1 percent.