Bessie Black Horn created the Many Hands shirt around 1910 to commemorate the “multiple handshakes” that her...
History
Apollo 11 Cave Stones, Namibia, quartzite, c. 25,500–25,300 B.C.E. Image courtesy of State Museum of Namibia.’ By Nathalie...
Various types of furnaces, 15th century / MS. 446, folio 65 recto. Wellcome Images L0032812 By Julia MartinsPhD...
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville, 2016 / Courtesy Ste. Michelle Wine Estates By Peter Blecha / 09.04.2017 Introduction Chateau...
“I’m drawn to people who don’t fit neatly into boxes,” says Professor Maya Jasanoff about the subject...
The Shakespearean Forest reimagines the real forests that our greatest playwright evoked in his works. The final book of...
Gold coin showing facing busts of Nero and Agrippina / Wikimedia Commons By Amanda Gardner / 11.02.2015...
A large Late Roman settlement near Bulgaria’s Moshtanets, which was also inhabited earlier, ca. 1,000 BC, has...
Handaxe, lower paleolithic, about 1.8 million years old, hard green volcanic lava (phonolite), 23.8 x 10 cm, found at...
Replica of the painting from the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southern France (Anthropos museum, Brno) By Dr....
The Deluge tablet of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian By Danielle Dencio / 2007 The Epic of Gilgamesh is...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Bailey Anne Cook) / 12.04.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and...
A statue of Isis, the Ancient Egyptian goddess, and a head from a human-sized statue of a...
Engraving by Jean-Frédéric de Waldeck, featured in Monuments anciens du Mexique. Palenqué et autres ruines de l’ancienne civilisation...
Image courtesy of Light show via Wikimedia Commons, and edited by Shannon Sands By Dr. Mark English / 11.11.2017 Philosopher In a recent...
Pious drinking. Walter Dendy Sadler via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Foley / 11.17.2017 Associate Professor of Patristics...
Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, during the influenza epidemic around 1918. National...
When the ringing of a bell comes to mean something more. Maisei Raman/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Edward Wasserman /...
‘ Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebecca, known as The Jewish Bride, 1665-69, oil...
The team of donkeys walks past the mud mosque laden with with their heavy items of transport....
Romulus Gives Laws to the Roman People, pen and wash, by Bernard van Orley, 1524 / Staatliche Graphische...
Photo by Ahron de Leeuw/Flickr By Dr. Justin E.H. Smith / 06.01.2016 Professor of History and Philosophy of...
War diaries, scrapbooks, letters and photographs belonging to Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner and one of...
Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated...
A 2,000-year-old intact and inscribed sundial – one of only a handful known to have survived –...
Barley continues to be the staple diet of people living in this Dolpo Valley of Nepal, a...
By Dr. Raquel Martín-Hernández / 03.28.2014 Postdoctoral Researcher Universidad Complutense de Madrid Abstract The verses of Homer...
The ruins of the temple of Apollon, Acropolis of Rhodes, island of Rhodes, Greece / Photo by Jebulon,...
By Dr. Eva Del Soldato / 11.06.2017 Assistant Professor of Romance Languages University of Pennsylvania It is...
By Dr. Daniil Leiderman / 07.22.2017 Instructional Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture Texas A&M University William Blake...