Map of the Persian Achaemenid Empire at its greatest extent under the reigns of Darius the Great and Xerxes. Inspired by Historical Atlas of Georges...
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This Assyrian relief from the North-West Palace in Kalhu (c. 865-860 BCE) shows King Ashurnasirpal advancing on an enemy city,...
This could come to blows. zoetnet, Creative Commons There’s something every Scot should know about those caterwauling pipes. By...
This figure of a saint was based on a preparatory sketch. Left: Assumption of the Virgin (detail), Andrea del...
Portrait of Alexios III Komnenos in The Romance of Alexander the Great, 1300s, made in Trebizond, Turkey. Tempera, gold,...
Byzantium in a bottle (or two) Sniffing out the scents of medieval Constantinople. By Saskia Wilson-Brown / 07.03.2014...
“The act of ripping children away from their parents is nothing new for the United States. Separating...
Mosaic Floor with Achilles and Briseis, A.D. 100s, Roman. 85 7/16 x 89 3/8 in. The J....
Ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece / Wikimedia Commons Looking at the ruins as...
Visitors look at the painting The Visit from 1939 by Paul Delvaux during the 2011 exhibition Surrealism...
You’re in a gallery looking at Dani Marti’s It’s All About Peter. What do you do next?...
Emily Anthes braves locusts, beetles, mealworms and more as she asks whether eating insects is the answer...
The First Salmon ceremony being performed. U.S. Department of Agriculture , Public Domain Indigenous people from around the world revere...
Rewriting history from the air. William S Hanson Scrutinizing archives of aerial photography, we have been able to...
In a world where few believed in an afterlife, this-worldly glory mattered immensely. Shutterstock When fame and glory are at...
His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?...
A new exhibition at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate in Charlottesville, Va., displays artifacts from Sally Hemings, in...
Illustration from Moonblight (1889) – Internet Archive An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of...
Portrait of Swedenborg painted in 1817, after Swedenborg’s death, by Carl Frederik von Breda – Wikimedia Commons During...
Trump supporters featured on the Trump campaign website Rather than live with contradiction, we figure out a...
By Dr. Ed Simon / 06.17.2018 Associate Editor Marginalia Review of Books Toward the end of the Second Great...
Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook’s...
An Elephant (detail) in Miscellany: Physiologus and other texts, about 1510–20, unknown illuminator, made in Crete, Greece. Pen and...
Thinking does not need machines. Robert Couse-Baker, Creative Commons Art history studies cultures, societies, histories, and experiences and how...
Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (commonly known as Whistler’s Mother), by James McNeill Whistler (1871). Wikimedia Commons...
An exorcism being performed in Fafe, Portugal. Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters The belief in demonic possession – often thought to be...
We need to move beyond assumptions that religion is simply about dogmatism. Daniel Montemayor We need to move...
Detail from a print featured in the first part of Vincent’s Wondertooneel der Nature – Rijks Museum Bert van de...
Detail from a version of Sebastian Münster’s sea monster chart (1544 and after), composed from copies of...
Some of the earliest applications of photography came in the fields of archaeology and botany. Pictured is...