Mum’s gone to Iceland. Creatista/Shutterstock The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging...
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A gold coin from Syracuse depicting the tyrant Agathocles, 310-300 BCE. (Palazzo Blu, Pisa) / Image from Sailko, Wikimedia Commons By Mark...
The fall of the Athenian army in Sicily during the Peloponnesian War in 413 BC as depicted...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
Can the arts be a bridge to other worlds? Daniel Parks, CC BY-NC Is a novella published 130 years...
What role did you play? Composite of Christos Georghiou and sdecoret/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND The current reckoning with data has been a long...
Departure of the Conscripts in 1807, by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1808 / Musée Carnavalet via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Ambrogio...
Lady Philosophy offers Boethius wings so his mind can fly aloft. The French School (15th Century). A...
Ishtar (on right) comes to Sargon, who would later become one of the great kings of Mesopotamia. Edwin...
Gilgamesh explores what it means to be human, and questions the meaning of life and love. Wikimedia Commons...
Night (1736), the fourth painting from William Hogarth’s Four Times of the Day series — Wikimedia Commons The introduction of street...
Depiction of Lucian for the title page of Works of Lucian (1781) – Internet Archive With his Vera Historia, the 2nd...
Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving after a woodcut...
Albrecht Dürer and others, The Triumphal Arch, c. 1515, woodcut printed from 192 individual blocks, 357 x...
The summit of Mt Zagaras north of Athens. Jason König In ancient times, they were the shrines and ritual sites to the Greek gods. These days, they’re astonishingly...
Athenian Vases (Gallery 103) in the newly reinstalled Getty Villa A curator selects details on ancient Greek...
The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in His Gallery at Brussels, by David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) 1651. /...
Depiction of Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (r. 911-918 CE), in the cartulary of Abingdon Abbey (British Library Cotton...
President Lincoln was represented by a lawyer who didn’t vote for him The White House, CC BY-SA President Trump...
The Pantheon dome – made entirely out of concrete. MatthiasKabel/wikimedia, CC BY-SA Think atomic theory was invented in the 19th century? Try 5th century...
Not the one we have fixed in our imaginations. Peter Paul Rubens, 1638 Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer ofrationality and fount of eternal...
A revetment plaque depicting dancers. Terracotta, Portico Building A, Acquarossa. 6th century BCE. (National Etruscan Museum of Viterbo, Italy). / Dan Diffendale,...
Artist’s impression of waterfalls pouring over the original land bridge connecting England with France. CREDIT: Imperial College London/Chase...
Look tasty? Dan Lacher/Flickr, CC BY Do you like your coffee to have artistic flair? Recent research shows we’re likely to pay more for a coffee with latte art...
Just five more minutes … can a coffee before a nap really help you pay back your...
Photo of the members of the commission of the League of Nations created by the Plenary Session...
Queen Victoria / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Daniel Schönpflug / 12.03.2010 Professor of History Universität Berlin Abstract The...
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where the wisdom of the oracle was dispensed. Janet Lackey/flickr, CC BY-NC Cicero...
The (smaller) tombs at Vergina. Damian Entwistle, CC BY-NC By Dr. Laura Swift / 08.18.2014 Lecturer in Classical Studies...
© MIDIWAVES By John Bruton / 04.09.2018 Former Irish Prime Minister Ireland will soon commemorate a conflict that...