Symbols in a largely illiterate society serve the vital purpose of relaying the most important values of...
Month: March 2019
The ups and downs of a big-time writer. In a life that spanned nearly six decades, Truman...
Some kind of punch was thrown, and, invisible or not, something powerful had happened. In all the...
“Did the public have a voice in the development of a theocratic city?” As University of Tennessee...
The holistic nature of cultural history approach makes us consider all factors that may have contributed to...
There are some silly arguments against Medicare-for-All, but one that gains a lot of traction: Can we...
In this period, there was no tradition of scientific medicine, and observations went hand in hand with...
The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day....
“Do you intend to reconstitute the Roman Empire?” It was a simple question, but Il Duce did...
Beatus was an early medieval monk who set down to illustrate a collection of writings he had...
Translators of the Bible have rarely understood the need or made the effort to convey the literary...
In short, the new fragment reveals a vision of humanity as a process of maturation that unfolds...
Political and spiritual progenitors of a thermonuclear war – World War III. Abstract Recently, two powerful personalities...
Vision is a window onto the world, its qualities determined by natural selection. Evolution has favoured the...
Humans stand out among all the mammals as being the only species to totter about on two...
Many of the protected open spaces that we have today have been inherited from one or more...
It has fallen on textile conservators to keep historic textiles preserved, and a surprising amount of science...
From ‘Six studies of a cat’ by Thomas Gainsborough, 1763–70 The poet Christopher Smart — also known...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company’s curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat...
Urban farming can make it easier for city residents to obtain healthy, affordable food. During the partial...
In forsaking planning, we are determined to fail. This will be the century of urbanisation, when seven...
tomb of Rekhmire the vizier, the highest ranking official under the pharaohs Tuthmosis III and Amenophis II...
The location of towns and cities in ancient Egypt was dictated by two principal factors. By Dr. Steven...
Fay Chong and Andrew Chinn were Asian American artists who made major contributions to the two most...
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming...
The United States and European powers had grown increasingly dissatisfied with treaties following the First Opium War....
Western powers tried to gain unfettered access to Chinese products and markets for European and U.S. trade....
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...
The Silk Road provided a conduit not only for silk, but also offered a very important path...
Looking for a way to solve a problem, Tim Berners-Lee launched a revolution. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is...