Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman: a true Amazonian, she is trained in a range of skills in...
Month: May 2018
Women’s contribution to art history might have to be revised – for the better. Dean Snow/Society for American...
President Donald Trump with televangelist Rev. Pat Robertson. AP Photo/Steve Helber In recent years, Christian television has moved into news...
Humboldt Fog chèvre, born in a dream. T.Depaepe, CC BY-ND By Dr. Heather Paxson / 12.13.2017 Professor of Anthropology...
A cellar worker steams American oak wine barrels before their use at Silver Oak Cellars in Oakville,...
Partition 31, 2015, Christiane Feser. Pigment print, cut, folded, and layered, 55 1/4 × 39 1/2 in....
Ecce Homo, the king Caspar, the Virgin and Child, and the Arms of the Families Kündig and...
Curse Tablet, about 100 B.C., found in Morgantina, Sicily. Lead, 3 11/16 x 1 13/16 in. (9.4...
Detail from a bell krater depicting the Delphic oracle atop her tripod. / The British Museum via...
Image by Ibrahim.ID, Wikimedia Commons Well, that’s an old story and here’s why. By Dr. Margaret M....
Keep calm and get your stoic on: more people today are heeding the advice than perhaps ever...
The tragedies of ancient Greece underpin Nietzsche’s understanding of what it means to be an artist. Hans Runge/Flickr...
Kunstmuseum St Gallen/Wikimedia Commons If the thought of undergoing surgery fills you with dread, spare a thought for...
Pexels Thankfully, defleshing bones has fallen out of fashion. By Dr. Yvonne Inall / 12.30.2016 Research Assistant...
A mass burial of battle victims from the Xiongnu period in Mongolia. The Xiongnu warriors are linked...
Wellcome Trust/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA At Ebbsfleet, in northeast Kent, archaeologists have finally uncovered the site where JuliusCaesar’s fleet landed in 54 BCE...
A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their...
You heard it say what? Roman Stetsyk/Shutterstock.com Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on...
Will learning sax make you better at French? Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton, CC BY-NC-ND Music is what penetrates most...
3D virtual reconstruction of two-million-year-old ear. Rolf Quam, CC BY-ND Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two...
To communicate is human – but how did language originally get started? Scott Johnson, CC BY-NC-ND What can a bunch of people grunting...
It is nearly impossible for us to know or be sure about the earliest human language ever...
Could these gentlemen be early pioneers of textspeak? Council Flat Holm Project/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Long before ‘sup’ and...
By Lynda Telford / 05.20.2018 Events and Projects Officer Richard III Society, Yorkshire Branch What was the...
By Dr. Susan Stebbins Professor of Cultural Anthropology State University of New York at Potsdam Introduction When...
Yeah, they messed with my genes. attawayjl Research shows that the genes of the modern horse were forged...
Not so august now. Stefano Carniccio/Shutterstock Monument restoration requires lacking funds. By Alice Borchi / 08.19.2014 PhD Candidate,...
The decoration of choice by Europe’s farming-friendly forefathers. Solange Rigaud, Author provided Studying beads, shells and animal teeth –...
Opening from Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura at the Cambridge University Library, manuscript dated to 1563. / Wikimedia...
Wellcome Library ‘Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind!’ By Dr. Helena...