A detail of the south porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian acropolis. The building was constructed between 421 to...
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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) /...
A 12-13th century CE illustrated manuscript depicting the 11th century CE Byzantine scholar and minister Michael Psellos and Byzantine emperor Michael...
A Neolithic (3500 BCE) skull showing evidence of a trephination operation – the removal of a part of the cranium to...
Wikimedia Commons Stalingrad was hailed in February 3’s Pravda (Truth) newspaper as “the greatest battle in history” and “a...
Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia / Photo by Bin im Garten, Wikimedia Commons What is the...
Aedes aegypti Diseases are entangled with the human-made world, and to reduce diseases to their nonhuman aspects is...
The Plague at Ashdod, by Nicolas Poussin / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The word influenza is derived from the...
The Lion Gate at Mycenae / Photo by Andreas Trepte, Wikimedia Commons The art and architecture of Mycenaean...
The North Portico in Knossos, Crete, Greece / Photo by Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons The Protopalatial period...
A 1950s photograph of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson,...
This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured, and...
Henri Matisse, The Green Line, 1905, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen) Fauvism developed...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Monna Vanna, 1866, oil on canvas, 88.9 x 86.4 cm (Tate) (photo: Tate, CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0...
Roman bronze balance weights. Probably used by a goldsmith or chemist. Imperial period. (Archaeological Museum, Como, Italy) / Photo...
Large grain marble head believed to be a local (Mediolanum) copy of an official portrait of Roman emperor Claudius (41-54...
Aerial view of the Louvre Museum (2010), photo: Matthias Kabel (CC BY-SA 3.0) “The origin of the modern museum…is...
Gallery in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (photo: Dr. Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) When people think of museums,...
The view inside Pompeii’s old granary (Francesco Lastrucci) The famous archaeological treasure is falling into scandalous decline, even...
Ruins of the Roman Forum / Wikimedia Commons The early history of the Roman Republic was one...
These ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain...
Detail from a 1642 engraving by Hendrik Hondius, based on Peter Breughel’s 1564 drawing depicting sufferers of...
These clay tablets (letters) were found in the ruins of Akhenaten’s capital, Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. They were inscribed with...
A letter to the dead, addressed to the ‘excellent spirit, the Count, Overseer of the Army’. First Intermediate...
Santa Maria Novella (Leon Battista Alberti was responsible for the façade, completed in 1470) By Dr. Sally...
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George, sixth or early seventh century, encaustic on wood,...
Fetteresso Old Inn (now a private house) / Photo by Russ Hamer, Wikimedia Commons Exploring the thousand-year...