Linnaeus Tripe, Front of the Mundapum at Secundermalie, 1858. © Wilson Centre for Photography The history of photography needs to...
Month: June 2018
Portrait of Ada Louise Huxtable, 1970s. Photograph by L. Garth Huxtable. The Getty Research Institute, 2013.M.9 “Buildings...
Iconic photography taken during the decade-long excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb has gone on display at Cambridge...
Sunrise at noon in the Arctic. Little exposure to sun was a piece of the genetic puzzle. Bering...
A family migrating to western US in 1886. Marion Doss/Flickr, Creative Commons Humans evolved in Africa, spread across the world, and then...
A lithograph, “The Drunkard’s Progress”, by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, c.1846 / Wikimedia Commons What caused the temperance movement...
Tippecanoe River, Near Camp Tecumseh, State Y.M.C.A. Camp, Delphi, Indiana / Springfield College Archives and Special Collections Presentation...
The unfinished Crazy Horse memorial in Custer County, South Dakota. Bernd00/Wikimedia Commons More than a century after he...
Khipu in the Museo Machu Picchu, Casa Concha, Cusco / Wikimedia Commons Instead of words or pictograms, the...
Kathmandu’s Darbar Square was one of the worst affected by the earthquake. Jool-yan/shutterstock.com Hundreds of monuments of the Kathmandu Valley’s World Heritage sites were...
The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west / Wikimedia Commons The most...
David Wilkie, Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch, 1822 How did the bulk of those at home in Britain...
Equestrian portrait of Catherine in the Preobrazhensky Regiment’s uniform. / Wikimedia Commons Enlightened despotism, also called benevolent...
Brothels in Pompeii were decorated with murals depicting erotic and exotic scenes: but the reality was far...
A fragment of a wall painting showing two lovers in bed from the House of L Caecilius...
A painting depicting a debate between Socrates and Aspasia, by Nicolas André Monsiaux, circa 1800. Wikimedia Commons In Athenian...
Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ‘The Creation of Man’ on the vault...
Boston Public Library, Flickr, Creative Commons How have historians interpreted the impact of the failed impeachment attempt...
James Monroe was neither a writer of Paine’s caliber nor an original thinker such as Jefferson, but...
The Great Mosque of Córdoba turned church after the Reconquista / Photo by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons Was it a...
What does a 21st century Viking look like? Anthony Devlin/PA The Vikings have an enduring appeal in the...
This war scene shown in a temple frieze in the Kailashanatha Temple depicts the use of chariots and elephants in warfare during the...
Map of the Indo-Saka – Indo-Scythian Kingdoms / Image by World Imaging, Wikimedia Commons Homonid activity in...
It’s not too late to explore our ancient history, and we can begin by grasping a better...
A horse-drawn Vancouver General Hospital ambulance / City of Vancouver Archives, Public Domain The story of an amazing man...
A 1964 Soviet stamp depicts William Shakespeare. “Stamp” via www.shutterstock.com Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon. By...
milliganpuss, Creative Commons We’ve never needed Oculus Rift to provide immersive experiences – they’ve been around for as long as...
By Arjun Walia / 12.08.2017 Ancient civilizations are a fascinating topic, and it’s clear we have so much...
By Preston Chesser The loss of the ancient world’s single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of...
Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut...