Moscow before Reconstruction, by Viktor Ruikovich (1927) / Photodome By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of...
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Tablet V of the epic of Gilgamesh. The left half of the whole tablet has survived and...
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Early Minoan Settlement at Trypiti / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of...
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Statue base of Hadrian set in the Theatre of Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis,...
An Assembly of Witches, by Frans Franken II, 1607 / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Lecture by Dr. Keith...
Soviet Square (now Minin & Pozharsky Square), 1930. Dmitry Tower of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin on the background....
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A tiny sea creature identified from fossils found in China may be the earliest known step on...
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