MarÃa Lionza statue MarÃa Lionza is an indigenous Venezuelan religion that dates back to the 14th century...
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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...
The Tauroctony / Photo by CristianChirita, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Wikimedia Commons The Roman deity Mithras appears in the historical record in the...
Sacello Ipogeico (Heroon), Paestum, Italy / Photo by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons Hero cults were one of the most...
A Gypsy caravan / Wikimedia Commons Studying the Gypsies taught this British historian that we learn more...
AÂ narrower concept of “East Central Europe” remains the dominant one in the German-speaking countries. By Dr. Joachim...
Blanche of Castile and Louis IX of France / Creative Commons Ultimately the Crusaders were forced to...
A 14th century CE illustration of Louis IX of France (r. 1226-1270 CE) departing Aigues Mortes for Egypt on...
Mass inside the church dedicated to our Lady of Good Health in Valenkanni, Tamil Nadu. D.Fernandes, Author provided A...
Baloch Raaj, The Death of Doda Pakistani folklore is shaped both by the languages and traditions of the...
Hajj pilgrim at Masjid al-Haram, or Grand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2003 The hajj, the annual...
Examining the available evidence for the use of horses and armor for them in medieval Islam warfare, with...
In 14th-century London, Church leaders discovered how to make a tidy income from sex workers. By Dr....
Fresco in the Pellegrinaioof the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Domenico, di Bartolo / Wellcome Collection,...
Several of the newly identified stone tools – unearthed from a museum collection. Hu Yue A fresh look...
The ‘Venus of Willendorf’ at around 28,000 years old is one of the earliest depictions of women...
So when exactly did presidents begin pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey? By Dr. Suzy Evans, J.D. / 06.29.2018 Historian and...
‘Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor’ by William Halsall (1882). Pilgrim Hall Museum The Pilgrims repeatedly thanked God for their good fortune. But...
Thermodynamics holds the answers to your wildest campfire dreams. (Brent Hofacker / Alamy) The gooey treat couldn’t have become...
Sweeter Alternative/Flickr Human physiology evolved on a diet containing very little sugar and virtually no refined carbohydrate. By...
Very few people today live a true hunter-gatherer lifestyle – and Paleo diets likely oversimplify what would...
Chinese stamps commemorating Deng Xiaoping, a leader widely regarded to have modernized the country and made it...