We speak of Greek religions or “cults” in the plural, though most of them shared similarities. Curated/Reviewed by...
Matthew McIntosh
The limestone Pyramidion of Ramose, from the top of the tomb of the ‘Necropolis Scribe’. Scenes on all four...
Beehive in a Floral Wreath (detail), 1730, Maria Sibylla Merian. The Getty Research Institute, 89-B10813 Maria Sibylla Merian...
Portrait of Margaret Cavendish in the frontispiece to her Grounds of Natural Philosophy (1668). The image is also used...
Of Education is Milton’s contribution to contemporary debate about methods of education. By Dr. Thomas H. Luxon Professor...
Bronze statue of Geoffrey Chaucer The world about which Chaucer wrote was a very different world from...
Photo by Ken, Wikimedia Commons More prioritize controlling gun ownership than protecting gun rights. Pew Research /...
Multiple people are dead after a shooting took place near a Pittsburgh synagogue. Multiple people were also...
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, recent site of gunpowder factory. / Photo by Cheungkkanthony, Wikimedia Commons Gunpowder was...
This elaborate set of ritual bronzes, consisting of an altar table and thirteen wine vessels, illustrates the...
Mass psychology and nationalism as as a form of degeneration, or a barbarous and cruel regression after the Great...
‘House of the dragoman [translator] of British Consulate Basra’, 1906 (IOR/L/PS/20/C260, f 27), Public Domain Wilfrid Malleson’s...
Danaë, 1530, Correggio (Antonio Allegri). Oil on canvas; 74 3/16 × 86 13/16 × 4 1/2 in....
Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece by Guariento di Arpo, 1344, tempera and gold leaf on panel, Norton...
Research shows that a people’s knowledge of their family history correlates to higher self-esteem, lower anxiety, stronger familial cohesion,...
To an anthropologist, it means the patterns of human behaviour, and all that that entails. 01.01.2018 Introduction The...
Archaeological site of ChavÃn de Huántar (photo: Julio Martinich, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The artistic style seen in stone...
Despite the extensive study of Moche iconography, the motivations behind the practice remain poorly understood By Christina Taggart...
The report—titled “Taking stock: A decade of drug policy”—evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the...
British Library, Public Domain Examining how drug literature—writing on drugs by drug users—has consistently resorted to Gothic conventions,...
Fragment of a Tomb Painting with Seated Woman Holding a Blue Lotus, ca. 1539-1425 B.C.E. / Photo...
Shutterstock Is your state working to increase accessibility to the ballot box, or to disenfranchise its citizens?...
Detail of a relief of the eastern stairs of the Apadana at Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid), Iran /...
Impression of a Sumerian cylinder seal from the Early Dynastic IIIa period (ca. 2600 BC). Persons drinking...
Donald Trump Says ‘I’m a Nationalist, Use That Word’ at Texas Rally for Ted Cruz It is...
Creative Commons “Some ethical vision of the world, an ethical concept of what human life and human...
Exploring nations’ reliance on propaganda in World War One, with a focus on symbols and slogans of nationhood...
If Bolsonaro ascends to the Brazilian presidency, the danger of Latin America shifting further toward another right-wing...
The Great Silk Road was a caravan road connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean from Ancient times...
Examining interactions and the exchanges in the Eurasian networks during the first centuries of the Roman Empire. By...