The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis...
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Chinese Banknotes Many Americans, apparently, are really angry at China right now. They believe that China is...
Francis Barraud [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons By Melissa Pipe / 03.30.2017 A Marvin Duchow Music Library...
Direct genetic traces of the earliest Native Americans have been identified for the first time in a...
By Gerry Everding / 01.03.2018 Senior News Direct, Social Sciences Washington University, St. Louis Using satellite imaging...
The Burning of the Library of Alexandria, 1876. Private Collection. / Getty Images By Preston Chesser The...
Pentheus torn apart by Agave and Ino. Attic red-figure lekanis (cosmetics bowl) lid, ca. 450-425 BCE /...
Crowds watching Obaysch, London Zoo’s first hippopotamus in 1852. / Wikimedia Commons According to the American Zoo...
Pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit, 2015. By Dr. Ellen F. Arnold / 03.09.2016 Associate Professor of...
Tombs along the Via Appia, Rome Author does not wish to be identified To say that the...
View of the Forum from the slope of the Capitoline to the Palatine Hill By Dr. Jeffrey A....
Ancient Greek garden / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Annette Lucia Giesecke Chair, Department of Languages, Literature and...
Mask of Agamemnon, from shaft grave V, grave circle A, c.1550-1500 B.C.E., gold, 12 inches / 35...
Euthymides, Three Revelers (Athenian red-figure amphora), c. 510 B.C.E., 24 inches high (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich) By Katarzyna Minollari /...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Center for Hellenic...
“Feridun Strikes Zahak With The Ox-Headed Mace,” watercolor on paper, Tabriz, Iran, circa 1525, from Firdawsi’s “Shahnameh”...
Indo-European Migration / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) Former Professor of Linguistics Collège de France Male...
The inventor at rest, with a Tesla coil (thanks to a double exposure). Dickenson V. Alley, Wellcome Collection, CC...
Colosseum in Rome / Wikimedia Commons Greece and Rome continue to shape profoundly the way we talk...
Tomb of the Reliefs, late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.E., Necropolis of Banditaccia (Cerveteri), Italy (photo,...
Etruscan civilization, 750-500 B.C.E. (image: NormanEinstein, CC BY-SA 3.0) Based on a map from The National Geographic Magazine Vol.173...
Illustration for “God’s Providence”, from the 1705 English edition of Orbis Sensualium Pictus / Internet Archive In the mid...
Dying Warrior sculpture from the East Pediment of the late archaic Temple of Aphaia in Aegina,c.500-480 BCE,...
Arch of Triumph, Palmyra. Image credit: Bernard Gagnon, 2010 / Wellcome Library By Dr. William Schupbach /...
Wakeah Jhane’s mother and little sister in family heirloom cradleboard / Photo provided by Wakeah Jhane Native women...
Rustic figurines of a resigned-looking Virgin clutching her child may have no obvious literary or artistic merit...
Statue of the ancient greek historian Herodotus at the parliament of Vienna / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Gregory...
Chemist and Druggist supplement: 6 January 1923 / Wellcome Library By Dr. Briony Hudson / 05.23.2016 Honorary...
Representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 painted by Jean-Jacques-François Le...
By Elizabeth Richins / 09.12.2016 Freelance Information Professional Freud Museum London Sex, childbirth and reproductive health were...