Pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit, 2015. By Dr. Ellen F. Arnold / 03.09.2016 Associate Professor of...
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Tombs along the Via Appia, Rome Author does not wish to be identified To say that the...
View of the Forum from the slope of the Capitoline to the Palatine Hill By Dr. Jeffrey A....
Ancient Greek garden / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Annette Lucia Giesecke Chair, Department of Languages, Literature and...
Mask of Agamemnon, from shaft grave V, grave circle A, c.1550-1500 B.C.E., gold, 12 inches / 35...
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Euthymides, Three Revelers (Athenian red-figure amphora), c. 510 B.C.E., 24 inches high (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich) By Katarzyna Minollari /...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Center for Hellenic...
“Feridun Strikes Zahak With The Ox-Headed Mace,” watercolor on paper, Tabriz, Iran, circa 1525, from Firdawsi’s “Shahnameh”...
Indo-European Migration / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) Former Professor of Linguistics Collège de France Male...
The inventor at rest, with a Tesla coil (thanks to a double exposure). Dickenson V. Alley, Wellcome Collection, CC...
Colosseum in Rome / Wikimedia Commons Greece and Rome continue to shape profoundly the way we talk...
Tomb of the Reliefs, late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.E., Necropolis of Banditaccia (Cerveteri), Italy (photo,...
Etruscan civilization, 750-500 B.C.E. (image: NormanEinstein, CC BY-SA 3.0) Based on a map from The National Geographic Magazine Vol.173...
Illustration for “God’s Providence”, from the 1705 English edition of Orbis Sensualium Pictus / Internet Archive In the mid...
Dying Warrior sculpture from the East Pediment of the late archaic Temple of Aphaia in Aegina,c.500-480 BCE,...
Arch of Triumph, Palmyra. Image credit: Bernard Gagnon, 2010 / Wellcome Library By Dr. William Schupbach /...
Wakeah Jhane’s mother and little sister in family heirloom cradleboard / Photo provided by Wakeah Jhane Native women...
Rustic figurines of a resigned-looking Virgin clutching her child may have no obvious literary or artistic merit...
By Dr. Patricia A. Alexander and Lauren M. Singer Trakhman / 10.03.2017 Alexander: Professor of Psychology...
Metis as subak. The traditional Balinese irrigation system for rice farmers. / Wikimedia Commons By Lou Keep / 01.02.2018...
Statue of the ancient greek historian Herodotus at the parliament of Vienna / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Gregory...
Chemist and Druggist supplement: 6 January 1923 / Wellcome Library By Dr. Briony Hudson / 05.23.2016 Honorary...
Representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 painted by Jean-Jacques-François Le...
By Elizabeth Richins / 09.12.2016 Freelance Information Professional Freud Museum London Sex, childbirth and reproductive health were...
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Detail of a relief depicting the “Apotheosis of Homer,” attributed to Archelaos of Priene, ca. 225 BCE–205...
Achilles rides in Victory dragging the body of Hektor / Wikimedia Commons By John D. Beatty Military...
For 40 years, operations at three nearby coal mines — including Arch Coal’s Black Thunder mine, pictured...