M0004635 Fragment of bas-relief in the from of a temple / Wellcome Library Ancient Greek philosophy and...
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Screenshot from a video game called War of the Vikings showing fighting Vikings, with some of their ships visible, too. /...
Viking Longship Replica / Wikimedia Commons The Vikings used a variety of vessels for different purposes, from...
From Lucian of Samosata by Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt, 1697 Byzantine manuscripts were created by and for educated men both...
Seventh ecumenical council, Icon, 17th century, Novodevichy Convent, Moscow / Photo by shakko, Wikimedia Commons Byzantine scribes...
Alt-right protestors in Berkley, CA in 2017. White nationalists and American Neo-Nazis want the rest of us...
Large Sarcophagus with the Muses (detail), mid-3rd century, Roman. Marble, 53 15/16 × 88 3/16 in. The...
A detail of the south porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian acropolis. The building was constructed between 421 to...
Russia’s relations with various Kurdish groups date back almost two centuries. By Pietro A. Shakarian / 11.12.2017...
100 years later we can see more clearly how the Romanov dynasty came to an end 100...
Senior Curator Paul Cornish looks at the developments in weaponry technology and strategy that led to the...
A silver seal of Robert Fitzwalter showing a mounted knight. 1213-1219 CE. Diameter: 73 mm. (British Museum, London) /...
A 12-13th century CE illustrated manuscript depicting the 11th century CE Byzantine scholar and minister Michael Psellos and Byzantine emperor Michael...
A Neolithic (3500 BCE) skull showing evidence of a trephination operation – the removal of a part of the cranium to...
Wikimedia Commons Stalingrad was hailed in February 3’s Pravda (Truth) newspaper as “the greatest battle in history” and “a...
Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia / Photo by Bin im Garten, Wikimedia Commons What is the...
Aedes aegypti Diseases are entangled with the human-made world, and to reduce diseases to their nonhuman aspects is...
The Plague at Ashdod, by Nicolas Poussin / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The word influenza is derived from the...
The Lion Gate at Mycenae / Photo by Andreas Trepte, Wikimedia Commons The art and architecture of Mycenaean...
The North Portico in Knossos, Crete, Greece / Photo by Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons The Protopalatial period...
A 1950s photograph of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson,...
This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured, and...
Henri Matisse, The Green Line, 1905, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen) Fauvism developed...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Monna Vanna, 1866, oil on canvas, 88.9 x 86.4 cm (Tate) (photo: Tate, CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0...
Roman bronze balance weights. Probably used by a goldsmith or chemist. Imperial period. (Archaeological Museum, Como, Italy) / Photo...
Large grain marble head believed to be a local (Mediolanum) copy of an official portrait of Roman emperor Claudius (41-54...
By Tristan D. Vick / 10.11.2017 A Short Recap of the Ignostic Position Ignosticism is the philosophical...
FDR / Library of Congress By Dr. Gene Zubovich / 03.22.2016 Visiting Lecturer in History University of...
Aerial view of the Louvre Museum (2010), photo: Matthias Kabel (CC BY-SA 3.0) “The origin of the modern museum…is...
Gallery in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (photo: Dr. Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) When people think of museums,...