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By Meredith F. Small, LiveScience's Human
Nature Columnist
Two mummified fetuses found in Tutankhamen's
tomb back in 1922 are probably twins, despite the fact that
one is much larger than the other, a team of scientists
recently announced.
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Perry Anderson |LRB
‘The greatest single truth to declare
itself in the wake of 1989,’ J.G.A. Pocock wrote two years
afterwards,
is that the frontiers of ‘Europe’
towards the east are everywhere open and indeterminate.
‘Europe’, it can now be seen, is not a continent – as in
the ancient geographers’ dream – but a subcontinent: a
peninsula of the Eurasian landmass, like India in being
inhabited by a highly distinctive chain of interacting
cultures, but unlike it in lacking a clearly marked
geophysical frontier. Instead of Afghanistan and the
Himalayas, there are vast level areas through which
conventional ‘Europe’ shades into conventional ‘Asia’,
and few would recognise the Ural mountains if they ever
reached them.
But, he went on, empires – of which in its
fashion the European Union must be accounted one – had
always needed to determine the space in which they exercised
their power, fixing the borders of fear or attraction around
them.More
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