The dining room (triclinium) of Herod’s Third Palace at Jericho with impressions of the stone inlays in...
Month: January 2017
Archaeological evidence shows that intestinal parasites such as whipworm became increasingly common across Europe during the Roman...
01.16.2017 It’s hard to believe that a family with no construction experience could build a two-storey, five-bedroom house...
By Kathryn Drury Wagner / 01.14.2017 The Therapeutic Effect of Music In the realm of healing techniques,...
Martin Luther King Jr. statue. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters By Dr. Timothy Joseph / 02.01.2016 Associate Professor of Classics...
Map of London, 1550 / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Keith Wrightson / 09.17.2009 Randolph W. Townsend,...
Stafford River Bridge / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Paul H. Freedman / 10.12.2011 Chester D. Tripp...
Arch of Titus, c.81 A.D. / Palatine Hill, Rome Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E Kleiner / 02.24.2009...
01.16.2017 In what can only be described as a heroic act, a golden retriever managed to save...
Illustration of Plato’s allegory of the cave / Yale University, Creative Commons By Dr. Steven Smith /...
Map of Boston, 1650 / Public Domain Lecture by Dr. Joanne Freeman / 01.14.2010 Professor of History...
Wood engraving of a Merovingian country nobleman’s estate / Yale University, Creative Commons Lecture by Dr. Paul...
Colosseum, Rome / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.19.2009 Dunham Professor, History of...
By Kira M. Newman / 01.13.2017 Are You a Rebel or a Conformist? We want to be...
Portraits of Joséphine and Napoleon Bonaparte / Wikimedia Commons By Catherine Delors Every marriage is complex, this...
Baptism of Clovis, by Master of Saint Giles, c.1500, oil on panel / Samuel H. Kress Collection,...
Cult copper statue of a crocodile. From Faiyum, modern-day Egypt. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, circa 1800 BCE....
Nero’s Domus Aureau, Rome, 64-68 CE / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.17.2009...
By Mike Lofgren / 01.14.2017 The election of Donald Trump has triggered as much wonderment abroad as...
The Old Centaur, Hadrianic grey-black marble sculpture of a centaur based on Hellenistic models. By Carole Raddato...
Portrait of Marie Antoinette / Public Domain By Catherine Delors Historical Novelist The Queen liked to be...
Reconstruction (courtesy Dr. Bernard Frischer, Rome Reborn), Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus) Rome,...
Dig at Troy / Wikimedia Commons While digs at ancient sites have in general revealed much important...
By Dr. John S. Wilkins / 08.05.2016 Honorary Research Fellow University of Melbourne Nature versus Humanity Before...
The motor merchant Caribsea prior to World War II. Photo courtesy of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections,...
Trafficking of Ancient Roman statues from the Middle East has gotten a Bulgarian and a Turk a...
Early Modern English port / Public Domain Lecture by Dr. Keith Wrightson / 09.15.2009 Randolph W. Townsend,...
Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber By Dr. Iván Szelényi / 09.03.2008 Professor Emeritus...
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula / Wikimedia Commons From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake...
An electroconvulsive therapy machine is seen at an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London in 2012....