A Byodoin temple in Japan Introduction Japan’s samurai warriors had a strict code of conduct. They were...
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Tandoori Roast leg of lamb. (Photo: Courtesy of Niloufer Mavalvala.) By James Wiener / 11.17.2016 The flavors...
(image from a manuscript [Colmar Bibliothèque municipale, 0409 (493)] of the translation into Latin by Carlo Marsuppini...
Conservator Eduardo Sanchez at work in the Getty Villa’s stone conservation studio. He’s removing old restorations to...
Etching of an alchemist at work in his lab / Wellcome Library By Sarah Waldorf / 12.14.2016...
Henry Pu Yi When you think of China in the modern-day, you think of a communist/socialist state,...
Micah Hughes on M. Brett Wilson’s Translating the Qurʾan in an Age of Nationalism By Micah Hughes...
12.14.2016 The First European Civilizations Prehistory Agriculture reached the Aegean region from the Middle East between 6500...
Aristodamus and Pantites nowhere to be seen… By Dr. James Lloyd / 11.22.2016 Sparta was one of...
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 12.14.2016 Description: The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was a great building...
By Robin Lindley / 12.11.2016 If you’re over age 40 or so and lived in Washington State...
By Dr. Walter G. Moss / 12.11.2016 Professer Emeritus of History Eastern Michigan University In a previous...
‘Doctor, whenever I get up I feel dizzy for half an hour.’ ‘Then wait for half an...
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675 –...
The Danse Macabre, A woodcut from 1499, currently at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris by an Unknown Artist The Black...
April 1947, Edwin H. Land demonstrating the Polaroid Land Camera’s instant film. / Image courtesy of Baker...
Paintings conservator Devi Ormond cleans Guercino’s Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, c. 1620, Guercino. On loan...
Stonehenge, c. 3,000 B.C.E., Salisbury Plain, England Introduction By Dr. Senta German Ashmolean Museum of Art and...
Even without iPhones, people in the 19th century liked to see how long they could strike a...
By Dr. Katherine A. East Professor of Classics Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Newscastle University International Journal of...
By Dr. Paul Brians Emeritus Professor of English Washington State University Why did the ice age end?...
An Assyrian relief from King Sargon II’s palace at Khorsabad showing a Phoenician ship transporting cedar logs....
Jacqueline, anonymous painting from the 16th C. By Susan Abernethy / 12.02.2016 The Freelance History Writer In...
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt By Dr. Gregory Sumner / 12.07.2016 Professor of History University of Detroit Mercy...
A Wound Man from a late 15th-century manuscript, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 597 / Munich Digitization Center This...
“Nothing is more important to us here at the monument than commemorating the lives of those who...
By David Pescovitz / 12.05.2016 This oft-seen wonderfully weird photo depicts Hugo Gernsback wearing his “teleyeglasses” in...
Louis-Michel van Loo’s portrait of Denis Diderot painted in 1767 / Wikimedia Commons October marked 300 years...
Brauron. View of the sanctuary of Artemis from the southwest. On the left is the Doric stoa...