The magical substance: Cacao Fruit and Leaf, November 27, 1783, Jan Brandes. Graphite and wash on paper, 19.5...
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By Maite Gomez-Rejón / 02.13.2014 Food and sex are the most basic human drives. It’s no wonder that aphrodisiacs—food...
Eros Wearing a Lionskin, Greek, 100–1 B.C. Terracotta, pigment, and gold, 15 3/4 in. high. The Museum...
Photo Collage from Open University, Creative Commons Novelist Robert Harris speaks with Steve Inskeep about how the...
Hernán Cortés / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Reinhard Wendt / 12.03.2010 University Professor Head of the Department of...
The wife and daughters of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine By Dr. Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD / 02.12.2018 Chancellor’s Professor...
Ottavio Leoni, Portrait of Galileo, 1624, engraving and etching (Fitzwilliam Museum) By Dr. Joseph Daubin / 08.09.2015 Distinguished University Professor...
Urbano Monte’s planisphere, digitally stitched together. Source: Rumsey Map Center By Ahmed Kabil / 02.01.2018 Historian Near the end...
Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.12.2018 Historian Editor-in-Chief, Brewminate The Study of History Splitting...
Illustration showing a printing press designed in 1850 by Hippolyte Marinoni and called L’Universelle (the Universal) /...
An Intertype Fotosetter, one of the most popular “first-generation” mass-market phototypesetting machines. The system is heavily based...
Sandra Marquez as Clytemnestra and Stephanie Andrea Barron as Iphigenia in the Court Theater production of Euripides’s Iphigenia...
Detail of a Tapestry depicting Constantine’s Victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge designed by Peter Paul Rubens 1623-1625 CE. Photographed at...
Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius, bronze, c. 173-76 C.E., (Capitoline Museums, Rome) By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 08.08.2015...
Loneliness (feeling alone) and solitude (being alone) are not the same thing. jessicahtam By Dr. Kim Haines-Eitzen /...
The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, 1851 / British Library By Dr. Alexander C.T. Geppert / 01.15.2018...
Johannes de Fontana, Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (1420), BSB Cod.icon. 242, f. 59v Bennett Gilbert peruses the sketchbook of 15th-century...
Peirene: General view of the spring facade, with Acrocorinth (the acropolis of ancient Corinth) in the background. Histories...
Bronze Age huts at Craggaunowen / Photo by Angella Streluk, Creative Commons By Dr. Nicholas K. Rauh Professor of...
Initial G: The Assumption of the Virgin, about 1392–1402, Niccolò da Bologna, from the Gradual of Niccolò di...
Domenico di Michelino, Dante holding the Divine Comedy, 1465 (Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence) By Matthew Collins /...
Wellcome Library via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Henning Schmidgen / 08.08.2011 Professor of the Theory of Media...
Etruscan and Massalian amphorae excavated at Lattes, France. Photo: Michael Dietler A look at wine’s integral role in culture and...
Left: Yoyogi National Gymnasium; 2nd Gymnasium. Photo courtesy of Japan Sport Council. Right: Stadio Flaminio. Photo: Matteo...
Spider costume designed by Charles Briton for the “Missing Links” theme, Mistick Krewe of Comus, 1873 For...
A map of United Nations member states at the end of 1945. Light blue are member states,...
Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant, 1866, Jacques Joseph Tissot. Oil on canvas, 50...
A reconstructed relief panel from the original on the Arch of Titus, Rome, c. 81 CE. The scene, showing...
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Video produced by Dr. Naraelle Hohensee, Dr. Steven Zucker...
Portrait of King George I from the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1714 / National Portrait Gallery,...