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A look at how games have attempted to depict modern Syria.

A look at how games have attempted to depict modern Syria.

Print this article The Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) is a federal program that, since its establishment by Congress in 2001, has granted millions of dollars—$47,750,971 through 2013—to about 800 projects of foreign governments seeking to preserve historic structures and institutions. Administered by the Cultural Heritage Center at the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, AFCP is little known to the American public. Grants are made on the basis of recommendations by U.S. ambassadors for purposes including “the restoration of ancient and hi...

Sun Nov 16 2008 at 1:20:13 Once upon a time, there was a city called Antioch, founded by Seleucus, one of Alexander The Great's generals. Actually, he had quite a thing for that name (his son was called Antiochus), and he founded 16 Antiochs, but it was the one near modern-day Aleppo that flourished and became the third greatest city of the Eastern Roman Empire. Around this great city there grew up an extensive network of towns and villages that depended on the trade flowing in and out of Antioch, inhabited by wealthy peasants and merchants and adorned with all the glory of Byzantine architec...

M83's bio says that they "freed themselves of outside influences". If that's the case, French electronic wunderkind Anthony Gonzalez has dived back into the melting pot for this, their third adventure in interstellar soundscapes that evoke the silver screen as much as the many influences that pepper Before The Dawn Heals Us. Their ambition is evident from the first seconds, unfolding with A Space Odyssey-reminiscent piano chimes and synths before blossoming into a harmonic chorus of Golden Age cinematic ooh-ing and aah-ing, as though Liz Taylor had just sauntered onscreen as Cleopatra, cla...