To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes:
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The Origins of Egyptian Civilization
One of the earliest complex societies to emerge was that of Egypt. Here Emily Teeter of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago talks about how and when, and most importantly why an early civilization developed there.
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