Denali is the highest peak in North America, and the tussle over its name symbolizes the U.S....
Month: March 2017
The Ascension of Christ (detail) from the Laudario of SantāAgnese, about 1340, Pacino di Bonaguida. Tempera and...
Figure 4.1 Isaac Royall and his family, seen here in a 1741 portrait by Robert Feke, moved...
Detail of the romanesque walkway along the church of San Martin, Segovia, Spain / Photo by Jebulon,...
Figure 1: P.Cairo 30961 recto. Photograph Ahmed Amin, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. By Dr. Stephen Kidd / 12.18.2013...
New archaeological analysis suggests people of Western Roman Empire switched between Hunnic nomadism and settled farming over...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy / 03.13.2015 Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature...
Figure 3.1 John Smithās famous map of Virginia (1622) illustrates many geopolitical features of early colonization. In...
Buy My Windmills (AchetĆ©s des Moulins), Edme Bouchardon, from Ćtudes prises dans le bas peuple ou les...
The Buddha seated in meditation, one hand on his lap, the other pendant in a gesture known...
By Dr. Georgia Fouda / 12.18.2013 Anthropology/Archaeology Heraklion Archaeological Museum Introduction Writing helps to objectify ideas and...
Elizabeth I “Armada Portrait”, 1588 – The portrait was made to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada...
Figure 2.1 After Christopher Columbus ādiscoveredā the New World, he sent letters home to Spain describing the...
The seal of Henry de Percy, 1301 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Christoph Mauntel / 08.28.2015 Professor...
Ā The clay tablet KN Fp 13, dated to 1450-1375 BC, is Minoan and was found at...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy / 03.13.2015 Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature...
Lecture by Dr. Charlotte Roberts at the Museum of London / 10.26.2015 Professor of Archaeology Durham University...
Minoan Snake Goddess figurines c 1600 BCE. / Heraklion Archaeological Museum By Ethel B. Abrahams In seeking...
The children’s mother was reportedly locked in a room during the ordeal. Ā© Saikat Paul / Global...
By Gaia Vince / 03.07.2017 The Rock of Gibraltar appears out of the plane window as an...
By Jill Suttie / 03.26.2017 Canines and Cooperation My dog, Casey, is one of my favorite beings...
The Old Drunkard, Hellenistic Sculpture, Late 3rd century BCE / Glyptothek, Munich By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz /...
Photograph of Emerson in later life / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Leonard Gougeon / 09.15.2015 Distinguished Professor...
Ā By Dr. Mohammad Nassar and Dr. Abdulmajeed Sabbagh Nassar: The University of Jordan Sabbagh: Umm Al-Qura...
Indurated limestone statue of Hatshepsut, c.1473-1458 BCE / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By Dr. Robert...
Lecture By Dr. Eric Pallant at Barnard’s Inn Hall / 03.23.2017 Fulbright Scholar, Professor of Environmental Science...
Photograph of Emerson in later life / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David M. Robinson and Dr....
Augusto de Camposās Lygia Fingers, a poem from 1953 for his wife-to-be, Lygia Azeredo, highlights the international...
Developing lizard embryo beneath placental tissues. Oliver Griffith By Dr. Oliver Griffith / 03.23.2017 Postdoctoral Associate in...
Classical 19th-century six-string guitar / Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg By Dr. JĆŗlio Ribeiro Alves /...