Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 06.19.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Rise of Babylon The Emergence of the...
History
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...
Rewriting history from the air. William S Hanson Scrutinizing archives of aerial photography, we have been able to...
In a world where few believed in an afterlife, this-worldly glory mattered immensely. Shutterstock When fame and glory are at...
His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?...
A new exhibition at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate in Charlottesville, Va., displays artifacts from Sally Hemings, in...
Illustration from Moonblight (1889) – Internet Archive An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of...
Portrait of Swedenborg painted in 1817, after Swedenborg’s death, by Carl Frederik von Breda – Wikimedia Commons During...
Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook’s...
An Elephant (detail) in Miscellany: Physiologus and other texts, about 1510–20, unknown illuminator, made in Crete, Greece. Pen and...
Thinking does not need machines. Robert Couse-Baker, Creative Commons Art history studies cultures, societies, histories, and experiences and how...
Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (commonly known as Whistler’s Mother), by James McNeill Whistler (1871). Wikimedia Commons...
We need to move beyond assumptions that religion is simply about dogmatism. Daniel Montemayor We need to move...
Detail from a print featured in the first part of Vincent’s Wondertooneel der Nature – Rijks Museum Bert van de...
Detail from a version of Sebastian Münster’s sea monster chart (1544 and after), composed from copies of...
Some of the earliest applications of photography came in the fields of archaeology and botany. Pictured is...