There were over 200 gods and goddesses worshipped throughout ancient China, but if one were to count...
History
Roosevelt has become the rare figure popular with both left and right. A president’s career can extend...
Study and treatment of a Renaissance altarpiece reveals new details about the artist’s working method, as well...
Some general principles for approaching the topic of knowledge transfer and science transfer. Abstract We are all...
Benjamin Franklin was one of our nation’s founding fathers and one of its most ingenious inventors. During...
The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
An overview of the Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic science. Abstract This article is an overview...
One of the most common mediums for political art has long been poster making. One of the...
The notes and staves we see today didn’t spring fully formed from one person’s mind. Imagine a...
West Africa is a place of great diversity – in language, in writing, in the hugely varied...
The symbols used in Norse mythology had to do not only with supernatural entities but also with...
Symbols in a largely illiterate society serve the vital purpose of relaying the most important values of...
The ups and downs of a big-time writer. In a life that spanned nearly six decades, Truman...
“Did the public have a voice in the development of a theocratic city?” As University of Tennessee...
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...
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...
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...
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...