The Peutinger Table. Reproduction by Conradi Millieri – Ulrich Harsch Bibliotheca Augustana. Wikimedia Commons Today the phrase ‘all roads leads...
Month: April 2018
A relief at the ancient Persian city of Persepolis (now in modern Iran), including inscriptions in cuneiform,...
Who gets to decide for the dead, such as this Egyptian mummy? AP Photo/Ric Feld Are DNA samples today’s version of the human skeletons...
By Erica Posey (left) and Rachel Levinson-Waldman (right) / 04.04.2018 Posey: Research and Program Associate Levinson-Waldman:...
Embed from Getty Images By Lucas Johnson / 04.05.2018 International Coordinator International Fellowship of Reconciliation In the...
View of St Mark’s campanile (left) and Palazzo Ducale (right) from the lagoon, Venice By Dr. Ellen...
Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, Tamil Naidu, India (photo: Jorge Royan, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Edward Fosmire / 04.03.2018 Assistant...
Effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the church of Fontevraud Abbey – By Adam Bishop – Own work, CC...
Mum’s gone to Iceland. Creatista/Shutterstock The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging...
A gold coin from Syracuse depicting the tyrant Agathocles, 310-300 BCE. (Palazzo Blu, Pisa) / Image from Sailko, Wikimedia Commons By Mark...
The fall of the Athenian army in Sicily during the Peloponnesian War in 413 BC as depicted...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
Can the arts be a bridge to other worlds? Daniel Parks, CC BY-NC Is a novella published 130 years...
What role did you play? Composite of Christos Georghiou and sdecoret/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND The current reckoning with data has been a long...
Departure of the Conscripts in 1807, by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1808 / Musée Carnavalet via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Ambrogio...
Lady Philosophy offers Boethius wings so his mind can fly aloft. The French School (15th Century). A...
Ishtar (on right) comes to Sargon, who would later become one of the great kings of Mesopotamia. Edwin...
Gilgamesh explores what it means to be human, and questions the meaning of life and love. Wikimedia Commons...
Night (1736), the fourth painting from William Hogarth’s Four Times of the Day series — Wikimedia Commons The introduction of street...
Depiction of Lucian for the title page of Works of Lucian (1781) – Internet Archive With his Vera Historia, the 2nd...
Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving after a woodcut...
Albrecht Dürer and others, The Triumphal Arch, c. 1515, woodcut printed from 192 individual blocks, 357 x...
The summit of Mt Zagaras north of Athens. Jason König In ancient times, they were the shrines and ritual sites to the Greek gods. These days, they’re astonishingly...
Athenian Vases (Gallery 103) in the newly reinstalled Getty Villa A curator selects details on ancient Greek...
The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in His Gallery at Brussels, by David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) 1651. /...
Depiction of Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (r. 911-918 CE), in the cartulary of Abingdon Abbey (British Library Cotton...
President Lincoln was represented by a lawyer who didn’t vote for him The White House, CC BY-SA President Trump...
The Pantheon dome – made entirely out of concrete. MatthiasKabel/wikimedia, CC BY-SA Think atomic theory was invented in the 19th century? Try 5th century...
Not the one we have fixed in our imaginations. Peter Paul Rubens, 1638 Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer ofrationality and fount of eternal...
A revetment plaque depicting dancers. Terracotta, Portico Building A, Acquarossa. 6th century BCE. (National Etruscan Museum of Viterbo, Italy). / Dan Diffendale,...