What happened to the dragons? Gary L Jones/Shutterstock By Dr. Simon Werrett / 12.31.2014 Senior Lecturer in...
Month: December 2016
By Christopher Chase / 12.29.2016 The Inner Peace Of An Empty Mind If your mind is empty,...
By Carole Raddato / 12.27.2016 Historian Although mentioned several times in the Biblical texts, the actual existence...
There was much more to mummification than material. Flood G./Flickr By Dr. Jana Jones / 08.13.2014 Research...
Leon Botstein, President of Bard College and music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra,...
Moral Mondays demonstrators take part in a march in Nov. 2016. (Photo: Pilar Timpane/flickr/cc) Law that would...
Illustration by Julie Notarianni I fear losing the stillness I gained. But I take comfort in knowing...
Franchthi Cave, Greece By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus...
By April Hamlin / 12.29.2016 Donald Trump just can’t tell the truth. He is a professional con-man...
The Sassanian Empire By Angela Costello / 08.17.2016 University of New Hampshire My research involved parsing the...
School of Athens fresco by Raphael (1509-1511) / Apostolic Palace, Vatican City By Dr. James Fieser /...
Portrait from inside Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep’s mastaba By Alissa Lyon / 10.23.2014 Department of Anthropology Michigan State University...
By Peter Montgomery / 12.28.2016 U.S.-based Religious Right groups have a long track record of collaborating with...
By Joey Lee and KangJing / 04.22.2016 Minasan Kon’nichiwa! Many of us would know that Japan is...
By William Theiss / 11.30.2016 MPhil Student in Early Modern History University of Cambridge The 1517 book...
Defoe in the pillory. Pioneering 18th century British pamphleteer Daniel Defoe was persecuted for his anonymously published...
By Alexa Erickson / 12.29.2016 Quit your job, travel the world, be free. There are a lot...
A London-based brewery has recently launched a unique service that uses cutting edge genetic profiling to create...
The arcane language associated with the offshore world can seem daunting to newcomers. This is no coincidence...
By Helen Nornha / 12.28.2016 The One-Minute Principle For Self-Improvement At the heart of this method is the idea that...
Detail, Man’s Prestige Cloth, early 20th century, Akan peoples, Asante group, silk and cotton, 289.6 x 172.7...
A gilded bronze statue of the Phoenician god Reshef. From Byblos. (National Museum of Beirut) By Mark...
The Moscow Kremlin / Photo by Jorge Láscar, Flickr/Creative Commons By Dr. Bruce W. Dearstyne / 12.29.2016...
By Justine Corrie / 12.29.2016 Taking Heart In Tough Times The most radical thing any of us...
By Dr. Rodger Wilkie Associate Professor of English St. Thomas University Volume 2:2012 Abstract The epic hero...
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, right, and Oleksandr Turchynov, Chairman of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, chair...
Depiction on the Arch of Titus of the triumphal march following the war. In the Jewish War...
Significant historical events, court cases, and ideas that have shaped our current system of constitutional First Amendment...
The pain and sorrow of bereavement is supposed to get easier to bear as time passes. But what...
Parthenon at Night By Dr. Marjeta Šašel Kos / 03.10.2016 Institute of Archaeology Slovenia Academy of Sciences...