Walter Frentz photographed Adolf Hitler strolling with German diplomat Walther Hewel in the Berchtesgaden Alps, near the...
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Photo by Don Tormey/LA Times/Getty The problem is that people are taking her seriously. In some cases,...
Andrew Wyeth stands by a creek on his Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania property in 1964. AP Photo/Bill Ingraham, Creative...
Georg Trakl in 1910 – Wikimedia Commons To mark the 100th anniversary of the death by cocaine overdose...
San Diego Giant on display at side show In December of 1896, a group of anatomists and...
The pirate flag of Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard. The flag shows a skeleton spearing a heart...
“The Ancient Wrasse”, a detail from the frontispiece to The Aquarium (1856, 2nd edition) — Biodiversity Library Bernd Brunner on...
“A Group of Carnations”, a plate from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807) — Internet Archive Bridal beds, blushing captives,...
Location of the sunken island of Cyanida / Kianida on Ptolemy’s 9th European Map (Nona Europae Tabula)...
By Dr. Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) Former Professor of Linguistics Collège de France Gift and Exchange Abstract Greek has five words...
John Brown in “The Tragic Prelude,” displayed at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka. Painted by John...
By Dr. Robert Weible / 06.03.2018 Past President, National Council on Public History Retired State Historian, New...
Middle left (detail), Scenes from the Apocalypse, Paris-Oxford-London Bible moralisée, France, c. 1225-45 (The British Library, Harley MS...
Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew (detail), Second Initial Page, f.29, early 8th century (British Library) By Louisa Woodville...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 06.19.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Rise of Babylon The Emergence of the...
The first civilizations formed in river valleys, and were characterized by a caste system and a strong...
Detail from Henry Warren’s 1839 portrait of John Martin, National Portrait Gallery. Max Adams, author of The Prometheans,...
Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by T. de Leu after J. Rabel, between 1587 and 1589. Wellcome Library...
Mosaic Icon with the Virgin and Child, late 1200s, made in Constantinople. Glass and gold tesserae on...
View of the Piazza del Campo, Siena By Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland / 12.30.2015 Art Historian...
Map of the Persian Achaemenid Empire at its greatest extent under the reigns of Darius the Great and Xerxes. Inspired by Historical Atlas of Georges...
This Assyrian relief from the North-West Palace in Kalhu (c. 865-860 BCE) shows King Ashurnasirpal advancing on an enemy city,...
This could come to blows. zoetnet, Creative Commons There’s something every Scot should know about those caterwauling pipes. By...
This figure of a saint was based on a preparatory sketch. Left: Assumption of the Virgin (detail), Andrea del...
Portrait of Alexios III Komnenos in The Romance of Alexander the Great, 1300s, made in Trebizond, Turkey. Tempera, gold,...
Byzantium in a bottle (or two) Sniffing out the scents of medieval Constantinople. By Saskia Wilson-Brown / 07.03.2014...
Mosaic Floor with Achilles and Briseis, A.D. 100s, Roman. 85 7/16 x 89 3/8 in. The J....
Ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece / Wikimedia Commons Looking at the ruins as...
Visitors look at the painting The Visit from 1939 by Paul Delvaux during the 2011 exhibition Surrealism...
The First Salmon ceremony being performed. U.S. Department of Agriculture , Public Domain Indigenous people from around the world revere...