Aerial view of the Louvre Museum (2010), photo: Matthias Kabel (CC BY-SA 3.0) “The origin of the modern museum…is...
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By Dr. James Fieser / 10.01.2017 Professor of Philosophy University of Tennessee at Martin INTRODUCTION Photo by CollegeDegrees360, Creative Commons...
In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus...
Detail from a Sydney Paget illustration to ‘The Final Problem’ which appeared in The Strand Magazine in December, 1893....
Dorando Pietri, being helped over the line by officials to come first in the marathon at the...
Spirit photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle taken by the ‘spirit photographer’ Ada Deane in 1922, the same...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romantic poet and co-author of ‘Lyrical Ballads’. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery Much of...
Painting by Ambroise-Louis Garneray, circa early 1800s, showing a pirate ship boarding a merchant vessel / Wikimedia...
Harry Burton, Howard Carter with Innermost Coffin of Tutankhamun, 1922 (Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute, University of Oxford)...
Geese (detail), from the Presentation of the Geese, Tomb chapel of Nebamun, c. 1350 B.C.E., paint on plaster,...
Odysseus and his crew escape the cyclops, as painted by Arnold Böcklin in 1896. Wikimedia By Dr. Chris...
Odysseus departs from the Land of the Phaeacians, painting by Claude Lorrain (1646) / Louvre Museum, Paris By Dr. Gregory Nagy...
Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine By Patrick Outhwaite / 04.21.2017 PhD Candidate in English McGill University...
Johann Schleyer on a harp given to him as a 50th birthday present by his colleagues at Sionsharfe,...
A conservator shows a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority say belonged...
Illustration from Schwab, Gustav: “Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Altertums” (1882) By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis Jones Professor...
A crown is placed on Mr. Bornet’s head at his 100th birthday celebration at the Rotary Club...
A cannon at sunset in Gettysburg / Photo by Nicolas Raymond, Flickr, Creative Commons By Kimberly J....
01.12.2016 Measuring Time The obelisk and Pylon at Luxor / Photo by Steve F-E-Cameron, Wikimedia Commons Scientifically, the...
What happened to the dragons? Gary L Jones/Shutterstock By Dr. Simon Werrett / 12.31.2014 Senior Lecturer in Science...
Portrait of Kircher at age 53 from Mundus Subterraneus (1664) / Wikimedia Commons With his enormous range of scholarly...
The Triumph of Achilles by Franz von Matsch. Achilles is seen dragging Hector’s lifeless body in front of the...
‘The Escape’, artist unknown. Image credit: Adamson Collection / Wellcome Library By Solomon Szekir-Papasavva / 06.13.2017 Engagement...
An Iroquois longhouse Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 12.30.2017 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief All images from Wikimedia Commons Introduction A longhouse or long...
The body of Patroclus is lifted by Menelaus and Meriones while Odysseus and others look on (Etruscan relief, 2nd century BC) / Photo by...
“Greg is the first Native man I ever heard talk in such depth about what happened to...
Lives and Afterlives By Dr. Ceri Law AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Cambridge We explore the historical and...
Chromolithograph of a fruiting branch of the cacao tree, by P. Depannemaeker, ca.1885, after an image by...
The scoop on how a familiar frozen treat once got respectable folk all hot under the collar....
Argument over a Card Game by Jan Steen (1625 -1679) / Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Courtney Erin...