Ruins in the Town of Ur, Southern Iraq / Photo by M.Lubinski, Flickr, Creative Commons Ur was an established...
History
A map illustrating the various political states within the Fertile Crescent c. 1450 BCE / Image by Свифт/Svift, Wikimedia Commons...
Executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod, Ukraine / Wikimedia Commons The Holocaust...
In August 1939 Joseph Stalin made a mistake, one that deeply affected not only the Soviet Union...
Charming family scenes in Victorian adverts for children’s medicines were in stark contrast to some of the...
Many common remedies, as well as the more exotic experimental drugs, were taken throughout the 19th century,...
This painting by Roberto Bompiani captures a common 19th-century association of Roman dining and excess. A Roman Feast,...
Despite its economic crises, Greece did not falter in its mission to support arts and culture. Rhodes,...
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or...
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century. By Ruth Garde / 04.12.2017...
The Kingdom of Guatemala within the wider Spanish Americas, c.1600 (click image to enlarge) / Image by...
Mayan architecture, Tikal, Guatemala Maya civilization developed in a territory the size of Germany and Denmark together....
Fragment of an inscripted clay cone of Urukagina (or Uruinimgina), lugal (prince) of Lagash. The inscription reads: “He [Uruinimgina] dug...
The “Burney Relief,” which is believed to represent either Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war,...
Protests during the Iranian Revolution, 1978 represent broader struggles across the region between secular and Islamic models...
To try and understand the Russian revolution outside of the broader social context of the time is...
The story of a flamboyant doctor whose famous fans included Dickens. But his experiments with hypnosis eventually met...
Detail from a coloured etching after C-L. Desrais depicting people gathered around the “baquet” at one of...
Downtown Tokyo in the 1920s / Creative Commons During the 1920s, Soviet cultural authorities sought to develop...
Nanjing Jinling Arsenal 1865, built by Li Hongzhang / Wikimedia Commons In the 19th century, after a long...
María Lionza statue María Lionza is an indigenous Venezuelan religion that dates back to the 14th century...
The shrinking of human heads was originally only practised by the Shuar people to trap the souls...
Print depicting enslaved people producing sugar in Antigua, 1823 / British Library, Public Domain After the Caribbean...
Slaves loading rum barrels from Ten Views in the Island of Antigua (1823) by William Clark. Courtesy British Library/Wikipedia...
How colonists cloaked violence beneath a veneer of gentility and conquered peoples held to religion to preserve their...
Temple II, Tikal, Guatemala. The temple was used as a tomb, probably for the queen of Maya ruler Jasaw Chan K’awiil (r....
Jardin d’ Acclimatation inaugurated in February 1861 / Wikimedia Commons In the 19th century, groups of European...
Venus’s bathing. (Margate). Side way or any way., Thomas Rowlandson / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Fashionable seaside towns...
Two 18th-century women, Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler, are famous for their romantic friendship, which was then...
Bible, about 1280–90, Bologna, Italy. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 11, fol. 248v; National...