By Dr. Benjamin Anderson Assistant Professor of Art History Cornell University Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57...
Month: March 2017
Karthea Temple ruins on the island of Keos (modern Kea) By Dr. Stavros Kouloumentas / 11.01.2016 Postdoctoral...
Judith Leyster, Man Offering Money to a Woman (The Proposition), 1631, oil on panel, 11-3/8 × 9-1/2 inches...
Figure 1: © John Christian Fjellestad/Flickr CC BY 2.0 2014 By Dr. Michel Clasquin-Johnson / 05.19.2015 Professor...
By William St. Clair / 05.10.2013 Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies University of London While...
Artist’s impression of a quasar shining through a galaxy’s ‘super halo’ of hydrogen gas. A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)...
By Dr. Simon Longstaff / 03.24.2017 Don’t Just Agree to Disagree The aim of an argument, or...
By Dr. Rachael Thyrza Sparks / 12.18.2013 Professor of Archaeology University College London Introduction A review of...
Photograph of Emerson in later life / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Phyllis Cole and Dr. Wesley...
Baroque guitar with new gut strings, detail of bridge. / University of Edingburgh By Dr. Júlio Ribeiro...
Sinclair Lewis at the wheel of his automobile, ca. 1920s / Yale University Library Some three decades...
Fragmentary stele bearing the inscription “Ur-Nanshe, son of Gunidu, to Ningirsu” / Louvre Museum, Paris By...
Early Writing Tablet recording the allocation of beer, 3100-3000 B.C.E, Late Prehistoric period, clay, probably from...
16th-Century Spanish guitar / Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix By Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves / 12.2015 Professor of...
Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet (possibly Orpheus) with Two Sirens, 350–300 B.C., Greek, made in Tarentum,...
Computer reconstruction depicting Roman Athens in 165 AD. / (c) Sebastian Kiersz By Dr. Cédric Brélaz /...
By Dr. Christopher W. Blackwell / 01.24.2003 Louis G. Forgione University Professor of Classics Furman University Introduction...
Language families of the world (click image to enlarge) By Dr. Paul Heggarty / 03.24.2015 Department of...
An activist at a protest rally at the White House against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL...
By Nick Darlington / 03.22.2017 The Key to Problem Solving Neurotic overthinkers often have negative thoughts and...
The author of a manuscript at his writing desk. From the Roman de la Rose, 14th century...
03.16.2017 For most people discovering the secret to eternal life, or reaching heaven and living forever in...
By Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves / 12.2015 Professor of Music Theory and Guitar Marshall University Introduction Las...
Sir Denis Mahon at his desk, 2010. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland, Sir Denis Mahon...
By Dr. Sarah E. Jackson / 12.18.2013 Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Cincinnati Introduction Writing as...
By Azriel ReShel / 03.21.2017 Can We All be Rainmakers? The Zulu say: He who brings rain,...
Khabur south of Al-Hasakah / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Rafał Koli´nski / 04.01.2014 Professor of Archaeology Adam...
Cartoon of a galvanized corpse from the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division. 10.15.2016 George Forster...
The Early Bronze Age pottery from the cemetery in the Mound of the Hostages at Tara /...
A prospector pans beach sand along the coast of what soon would turn into the boom /...