 A group of tombs at Mada’in Saleh in present-day Saudi Arabia. (Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Nehmé.) The Nabataeans...
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Temple of Bel complex in the background and the agora on left center in Palmyra, Syria /...
Edward Jenner, who pioneered vaccination, and two colleagues (right) seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, with the dead...
With the rapid pace of vaccine development in recent decades, the historic origins of immunization are often...
In May 1796, Edward Jenner was asked to inoculate an eight-year-old pauper child named James Phipps. By...
Creative Commons The site of Jericho, just north of the Dead Sea and due west of the...
A section of Hadrian’s Wall near Carlisle / Photo by zoonabar, Flickr, Creative Commons Walls have traditionally been built for...
Wikimedia Commons Convention and personal interest compelled Caesar to tum his hand to ethnography. By Dr. B.M....
Titus Lartius was one of the leading men of the early Roman Republic, twice consul, and the first Roman dictator....
Image by My 420 Tours, from Wikimedia Commons Increasing have been allocated to health and education programs and rates...
Oxycodone-acetaminophen pills. Patrick Sison/AP By Dr. Michael Robinson / 09.29.2017Assistant Professor of PsychologyWesleyan University Why do they do...
From the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York / British Library, Public Domain Medicine...
Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama / Photo by Altairisfar, Wikimedia Commons The Catholic Church in...
A bishop granting indulgences in a fresco by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1524 (Wikimedia Commons) To understand the...
NASA, Public Domain If greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by...
With a lot not on display, museums may not even know all that’s in their vast holdings....
India’s Mawmluh Cave, home of the reference stalagmite for the newly named age. Abhijeet Khedgikar/Shutterstock.com 2018 brought...
Franklin Roosevelt’s Gubernatorial portrait, by Jacob H. Perskie, 1941 / Wikimedia Commons The Founding Fathers considered term...
Judging from his public speeches, Franklin D. Roosevelt–aka FDR–may have been our most religious 20th century President....
A mass grave found in Dorset could belong to a crew of Viking mercenaries who terrorised Europe...
A 1540s depiction of a judicial combat in Augsburg in 1409, between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and...
The Sebasteion, excavated in 1979-81, was a grandiose temple complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors...
Growth of the Achaemenid Empire under different kings / Wikimedia Commons The great audience hall of the...
Saint-Sulpice church, the romanesque portal, 12th-c., at Marignac, Charente-Maritime, France / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons The...
There were alternate systems of belief for those dissatisfied with the chaotic traditional religious forms. By Dr....
Trajan / Creative Commons The Roman Empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Emperor Trajan. By Dr....
Detail of Geta (face removed) and Caracalla from the Severan Tondo, c. 200 C.E., tempera on wood,...
Photo credit illustration by Zoran Svilar European leaders are today imposing new forms of colonialism on the...
A section of the Antonine Wall at Rough Castle near Falkirk / Photo by Kim Traynor, Wikimedia...
Chesters Roman Fort – View of the Barrack Blocks Securing the borders of the Roman Empire had...