Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005, oil paint on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3 cm...
Month: January 2018
Rev. William J. Barber speaks to the crowd gathered at Pullen Baptist Memorial Church in Raleigh, North...
By the British Museum / 08.29.2016 The wall paintings from Nebamun’s tomb-chapel depict an idealized vision of daily...
Frontispiece to Volume 1 of Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652), showing Kircher as the Egyptian Oedipus before the hieroglyphic sphinx – Google...
Denis Burkitt / Wellcome Library Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911-1993), while posted at the Mulago Hospital and Makerere Medical...
A detail from the Book of the Dead of Aaneru from Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, XXI Dynasty, 1070-946 BCE. (Egyptian Museum,...
Coin (didramma) from the “Romano-campana” series, Herakles and the wolf suckling the twins, 265 B.C.E., silver coin...
Sarcophagus of the Spouses, Etruscan, c. 520-510 B.C.E., painted terracotta (Musée du Louvre) Author does not wish...
Author Tom Iliffe leads scientists on a cave dive. Jill Heinerth , CC BY-ND By Dr. Thomas M. Iliffe /...
British scientist Charles Darwin. Darwin’s scientific discoveries concerning evolution had an immediate impact on the scientific community....
Discover the real secret behind the genius of Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci. By Zat Rana...
By Diane Sherry Case / 01.03.2018 Novelist Choose a moment in your day. It can be as...
By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 12.09.2015 Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies Binghamton University Temple of Portunus...
Mars of Todi, late 5th or early 4th century B.C.E., hollow-cast bronze, 141 cm high (Gregorian Etruscan...
Halloween skeleton from PublicDomanPictures.net By Dolly Stolze / 10.20.2017 I recently read an article by John Squires, published in 2014,...
Self-portait taken by Dodgson, circa 1895 – Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin The author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland remains...
Still Life with Peaches and Water Jar (left), Still Life with a Silver Tray with Prunes, Dried figs, Dates and...
Example of a Fourth Style painting, before 79 C.E., fresco, Pompeii By Dr. Jessica Leay Ambler / 08.08.2015 Professor of...
The Rosetta Stone, 196 B.C.E., Ptolemaic Period, 112.3 x 75.7 x 28.4 cm, Egypt © Trustees of...
Mummy portrait of bearded man, encaustic on wood / Royal Museum of Scotland By the British Museum...
Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector’s lifeless body in front of the Gates of Troy. (From a panoramic fresco on the upper level...
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis...
Chinese Banknotes Many Americans, apparently, are really angry at China right now. They believe that China is...
Francis Barraud [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons By Melissa Pipe / 03.30.2017 A Marvin Duchow Music Library...
By Dr. Zuleyka Zevallos / 09.10.2016 Sociologist Have you ever had a song playing in your mind...
Direct genetic traces of the earliest Native Americans have been identified for the first time in a...
By Gerry Everding / 01.03.2018 Senior News Direct, Social Sciences Washington University, St. Louis Using satellite imaging...
The Burning of the Library of Alexandria, 1876. Private Collection. / Getty Images By Preston Chesser The...
Pentheus torn apart by Agave and Ino. Attic red-figure lekanis (cosmetics bowl) lid, ca. 450-425 BCE /...
Crowds watching Obaysch, London Zoo’s first hippopotamus in 1852. / Wikimedia Commons According to the American Zoo...