The spread of yellow fever was a result of complex ecological and demographic changes produced by the...
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Recent phylogenetic analyses suggest that the yellow fever virus is approximately 1,500 years old. In many environmental...
Many cultures around the world celebrate death as part of life, though we often contain death within...
The dead wait to be ferried across the River Styx. The Souls of Acheron (1898) by Adolf Hiremy...
Tablet with Instructions for the Deceased in the Underworld, 350–300 B.C., Greek. Gold, 7/8 × 1 7/16...
The maramataka is the traditional Māori calendar. Introduction The maramataka is the traditional Māori calendar. Each year...
The Makahiki season is the ancient Hawaiian New Year festival, in honor of the god Lono of...
Examining different historical calendars and the origin of the western calendar. Principles of Historical Calendars Overview Most...
Head of Janus, Vatican museum, Rome / Photo by Loudon dodd, Wikimedia Commons Sage advice from the ancients...
Detail from The Temple of Janus by Peter Paul Rubens. Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons On January 1, we...
Is or is not? Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr attend the Solway conference in 1920 in Brussels,...
Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, the Ayurvedic Man picture book presents a visual history...
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga. By Lalita Kaplish / 01.18.2018...
The weapon ceased to exist by the time the Ottoman Empire finally conquered Constantinople in 1453. September...
The napalm of ancient warfare. By Mark CartwrightHistor Introduction Greek Fire was an incendiary weapon first used in Byzantine...
A view on the Roman cavalry forces, especially the equites legionis. By Dr. Stefan Zehetner Institut für...
One area in which Archimedes excelled was in the design and construction of great war machines. By...
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England. From standing PoolesFrom boggs;...
In 1421, the newly elected mayor of Coventry, England issued a proclamation that gives us insights into...
Without doubt, gladiator spectacles were one of the most watched forms of popular entertainment in the Roman...
“The people are only anxious for two things: bread and circuses.” Introduction Two men ready their weapons....
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United...
The crisis affected all kind of people: whites, mestizos, and indigenous people; herders, large cattle owners, and...
Medieval commerce had little space for a specialized law, and merchants had little need for it. Abstract...
Strategies in translating the first national law-code of Norway, the Landslov from 1274, into English. Abstract This...
“She killed her sister, butchered her elder brothers, murdered the ruler, poisoned her mother,” the chronicles say....
His name was synonymous with terror among his enemies and the general populace of the territories that...
The dialectic of Plato’s civic architecture is centered on an account of justice as geometrical equality. Abstract...
The idea of the “people” as a united force suffused the imagery of the New Deal era....
Constructing a “national” identity of the Athenian inhabitants during the tyrannical governance of Peisistratos and his sons....