Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-13, marble, 93″ (236 cm) (Orsanmichele, Florence). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris...
History
Double page opening: Provinces Bringing Tribute (f.23v.) and Ruler Portrait of Otto III (f.24) Gospels of Otto III,...
After looting its treasures, Alexander burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground, as Xerxes...
The author would have constructed the narrative to place the events in the past in order to...
It was the biggest constitutional crisis since Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon. By Anna Pasternak It...
From its earliest years, the Senate has jealously guarded its power to review and approve or reject...
Although a saint, a bishop, and an important figure in a turbulent age, Sidonius is remembered particularly...
The earliest cave paintings here are about 30,000 years old. Introduction The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site...
Examining the associations known as ‘collegia’ mentioned in the letters (10.33-34) from the Roman pro-consul Pliny to...
Discovered in 1925, the skull was the first fossilized archaic human found in Western Asia. Introduction Mugharet...
Athens’s heavy-handed control of the Delian League ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Introduction The Delian...
Trump has learned very well from prior anti-Communism crusaders, and it requires vigilance and activism to cope...
Each one immediately followed wars – World War I and II. Introduction A “Red Scare” is promotion...
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that...
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process...
Lycians are associated with a group known as the Sea Peoples in Hittite and Egyptian texts. Introduction...
Strabo tells us that the city of Side was founded around the 7th century BCE by Greek...
He considered it the most democratic of arts and a crucial aid in the quest to end...
The European explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324 CE) traveled on these routes and described them in depth in...
Introduced by Richard I in 1194, the taxable value of an estate was initially assessed from the...
Commodus was the first of what would be a century of inept emperors. Introduction Commodus was Roman...
The prison was constructed around 640–616 BCE, by Ancus Marcius. Introduction The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum,...
Just what was it that the crew of the HMS Daedalus saw? By Matthew Willis On 6...
The name Byzantine Empire is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries, who...
In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials who...
Recycling on a large scale is a Bronze Age invention. The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive...
A charming watercolor provides insight into the French artist’s private world. A tiny treasure by Édouard Manet...
Saint Trophime, Arles, 12th – 15th century (photo: Elliot Brown, CC BY 2.0) By Christine M. Bolli / 08.08.2015 PhD...
Church of Sainte‐Foy, Conques, France, c. 1050–1130 (photo: jean françois bonachera, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Dr. Elisa Foster...
Examining evidence that enslaved persons were involved in the construction of the original Smithsonian Building in Washington,...