Music has played a central role in Greek Orthodox services for centuries. Nicolas Bell describes the manuscript...
History
Byzantine Constantinople (modern Istanbul), c.1000 CE / Wikimedia Commons Surveying the many written sources for Byzantine history. By...
22nd September 1776: British soldiers preparing to hang the American patriot and spy, Nathan Hale (1755 –...
‘Scene at Bideford Bridge’, by Mark Myers, showing the crowded waters of the Torridge during the heyday...
Medieval Novgorod, by Apollinary Vasnetsov / Wikimedia Commons The Vikings raided, traded and settled as far afield...
Chieftains house replica / Photo by Juanjo Marin, Wikimedia Commons Archaeological artefacts found in places such as...
Image of Timbuktu manuscripts / Wikimedia Commons The history of illuminated manuscripts goes back to antiquity. In this...
Papyrus Bodmer VIII / Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Wikimedia Commons What did books look like in antiquity? In...
dwell.com Looking at the urban social history of Accra through the singular Oxford Street, part of the city’s...
Use of a hand-siphon, a portable flame-thrower, from a siege tower equipped with a boarding bridge against...
Add MS 34654 / British Library The development of printing in the 15th century signaled huge changes...
Celsus Library, Ephesus / Photo by the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Wikimedia Commons How were books stored and...
The newly found inscription provides invaluable information about the construction of the Roman thermae in the Ancient...
Creative Commons Photo The tenacity of the Commune’s second life does not simply attest to its continuing...
The archives of American artistic production, letters, journals, and their contemporary circles in France can be brought...
Sammelband of three books, edge shown with clasps / Science History Institute, Wikimedia Commons Ann Tomalak provides...
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Commons The transition from parchment to paper as...
OIympian Columns A fascinating group of manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries preserve a range of...
M0004635 Fragment of bas-relief in the from of a temple / Wellcome Library Ancient Greek philosophy and...
Screenshot from a video game called War of the Vikings showing fighting Vikings, with some of their ships visible, too. /...
Viking Longship Replica / Wikimedia Commons The Vikings used a variety of vessels for different purposes, from...
From Lucian of Samosata by Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt, 1697 Byzantine manuscripts were created by and for educated men both...
Seventh ecumenical council, Icon, 17th century, Novodevichy Convent, Moscow / Photo by shakko, Wikimedia Commons Byzantine scribes...
Alt-right protestors in Berkley, CA in 2017. White nationalists and American Neo-Nazis want the rest of us...
Large Sarcophagus with the Muses (detail), mid-3rd century, Roman. Marble, 53 15/16 × 88 3/16 in. The...
A detail of the south porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian acropolis. The building was constructed between 421 to...
Russia’s relations with various Kurdish groups date back almost two centuries. By Pietro A. Shakarian / 11.12.2017...
100 years later we can see more clearly how the Romanov dynasty came to an end 100...
Senior Curator Paul Cornish looks at the developments in weaponry technology and strategy that led to the...
A silver seal of Robert Fitzwalter showing a mounted knight. 1213-1219 CE. Diameter: 73 mm. (British Museum, London) /...