Frosty temperatures at Vindolanda in winter 2014. / Photo by the Vindolanda Trust, Creative Commons By Dr....
Month: January 2017
Celtic Invasions / University of Oregon, Creative Commons Lecture by Dr. David A. Wacks / 10.30.2013 Professor...
Surgeons of the 3rd Division before hospital tent in Petersburg, Va., Aug. 1864. / Library of Congress...
A tiny sea creature identified from fossils found in China may be the earliest known step on...
A Soviet-era stamp depicts a scene from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace.’ / Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
The Isaiah Scroll is the only complete biblical book surviving among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Found in...
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin at 79 years of age, by Joseph Duplessis, 1785 / National Portrait Gallery,...
Stalin visiting the ailing Lenin at his dacha in Gorki. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum...
The Removal of the Wool from the Skins and the Combing, by Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg, 1519...
French salon, by Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier, 1812 / Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau Lecture...
The operating theater at the Paris School of Medicine, 1890 / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Frank...
By Jacob Devaney / 01.30.2016 The Ancient Practice of Fire Ceremonies Take some time to be with...
Portrait of Elizabeth commemorating the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588), depicted in the background. Elizabeth’s hand...
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, by Rembrandt Peale, 1800, oil on canvas / White House Dr. Freeman lays...
Lecture by Dr. Paul Bloom / 01.31.2007 Brooks and Suzanne Regan Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science...
Evolutionary tree / OneZoom Lecture by Dr. Stephen Stearns / 01.12.2009 Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology...
The newly found Gospel book in Bulgarian, in the Cyrillic (Bulgaric) alphabet, was printed in Vilnius in...
The memorandum gives Bannon, former executive chair of the rightwing website Breitbart News, a regular seat at...
Medea Kills Her Children, by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, 1862, oil on canvas / Louvre Museum, Paris Medea in...
This marble plaque depicts a ‘parturition’, or birthing scene. Such scenes eased the fears of expectant mothers...
The only known photograph of five Harvard College/University Presidents sitting in order of when they served. Left-to-Right:...
BrightStar By Dr. Dorothy Jakobsh Professor of Religious Studies University of Waterloo, Canada What is today known...
Portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre, c.1790, oil on fabric / Carnavalet Museum Lecture by Dr. John Merriman...
Philip of Macedon coin / British Museum Lecture by Dr. Donald Kagan / 12.06.2007 Sterling Professor of...
Detail from the film Robinson Crusoe (1902) by Georges Méliès / Wikimedia Commons In the wake of...
Roman city gate of the CCAA, imaginatively inscribed with “CCAA”. / Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne. – Photo: PK,...
An hórreo – a typical granary from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (mainly Galicia, Asturias and...
By Dr. Mark Damen / 07.25.2015 Professor of Ancient Drama, Ancient History, Latin and Greek Languages Utah...
This famous depiction of the Boston Massacre was engraved by Paul Revere (copied from an engraving by...
Edward VI and the Pope: An Allegory of the Reformation. / National Portrait Gallery, London Lecture by...