Piazza del Popolo. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND From the Temple of Heliopolis to the centre of Rome, the massive stone column has...
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EPA It takes more than a quick scan for high-tech archaeology to reveal history’s secrets. By Dr. Kristian Strutt / 03.23.2016...
Painting from El Castillo cave (Cantabria, Spain). Early Upper Palaeolithic or older. Photo Becky Harrison and courtesy Gobierno...
A timeline of Shakespeare’s plays / Creative Commons Defining national culture and identity. By Dr. Eugene O’Brien...
Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler (28 November 1941). By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA...
Hendrick Avercamp’s ‘Ice Scene’ (c. 1610). Wikimedia Commons The function of fashion as a form of cultural transfer in...
Sky Atlantic We think of the Druids as being embedded in British culture from the mists of ancient times. But what we think we know...
© MGM With Vikings on trend, it’s high time for a masterclass on the bizarre world of their names. By Keith Ruiter / 02.18.2016...
By Dr. Katherine Mellon Charron Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Introduction Segregation contradicts what...
George Caleb Bingham, “The County Election,”, via Reynolda House Museum of American Art How did the federal government...
Too late lads, the Scots are already there. Oscar Wergeland Iceland was one of the last island groups...
Mikladalur, Faroe Islands / Photo by Davide Gorla, Wikimedia Commons The Faroe Islands could have been inhabited 500 years earlier...
Jerash is famous for its well-preserved Greco-Roman columns, seen here on the ancient Jordanian city’s main street....
Virgil reads the Aeneid to Octavia and Augustus. Angelica Kauffmann/Hermitage/Wikimedia Commons Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid documents the founding of Rome by a...
Sam Oozevaseuk Schimmel, 18, has grown up in both Alaska and Washington state. He is an advocate...
Cherokee Heritage Museum / Photo by Wesley Fryer, Wikimedia Commons How many Native Americans died on the...
Fajada Butte, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Chacoan petroglyphs can be found at the base of the cliffs...
Ludovic Mann (right) and a colleague studying the site in 1930s. Historic Environment Scotland It’s arguably Europe’s premier...
One of the spear points found in the 2,500-year-old grave in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. Anna Gowthorpe/PA What’s in...
An extinct strain of the human Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been discovered in Bronze Age human...
By Taylor Downing / 05.27.2018 Historian On November 9th 1983, the leadership of the Soviet Union nearly...
Map showing the geographical centrality of the North Pole, from Paradise Found (1885), by William F. Warren Of all...
Mary Queen of Scots was at the centre of numerous plots to kill Queen Elizabeth I. Pierre Révoil...
The Last Kingdom. BBC/Carnival/Des Wille New research suggests his military achievements might have been exaggerated. By Dr. Stuart Brookes...
Give a man a ploughshare, and he’ll turn it into a sword. Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH An elite class...
The owner of this skull had a nasty run in with an axe. Christian Meyer These massacres entail killing...
She’s the Schneiderman who championed women’s rights in the 20th century. By Dr. Jennifer Scanlon Associate Professor...
During the war, the poster on the left, painted by J. Howard Miller, was only on display...
Florence Kelley (center) / Public Domain By Dr. Miriam Forman-Brunell Professor of History, Women, and Gender University...
Reproduction of an original photograph by George Wick of the embalmed body of Julia Pastrana on display...