By Dr. Bruce Chadwick / 01.05.2018 Lecturer in History and Film Rutgers University “Poe foresaw the darkness...
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Plaster cast of the Tomb of Scipio Barbata in-situ, early 3rd century B.C.E. (original, Vatican Museums) (photo:...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Center for Hellenic...
A native of the Kayaye village, dressed head to toe in boughs and leaves as part of...
Map of Northern France from Calais in the north to Paris in the south in 1811. Image...
Upper register (detail), Dioskourides, Gemma Augustea, 9 – 12 C.E., 19 x 23 cm, double-layered sardonyx with gold,...
By Dr. Julia Fischer / 08.08.2015 Lecturer of Art History Georgia Southern University Augustus and the power...
John Calvin on his deathbed in 1564, from a 19th-century engraving / Public Domain By Dr....
By Dr. Aaron Graham / 09.22.2015 Professor of History University College London Abstract Warfare was one of...
A neanderthal skull, left hand side of one of Boule’s stereographs included in his L’Homme de La Chapelle (1911)...
Head and torso (detail), Statue A, from the sea off Riace, Italy, c. 460-450 B.C.E. (?), 198...
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 assembled the victors of the First World War, i.e. President Woodrow...
Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Joachim Whaley / 05.11.2015 Professor of German History and Thought University of Cambridge...
Ironworks of Dillingen in 1850 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Richard H. Tilly / 12.03.2010 Assistant Professor...
Coloured aquatint, ca. 1862, depicting a man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy...
Detail from John Leech’s illustration “Tarquinius Superbus makes himself king” featured in The Comic History of Rome – Internet Archive...
By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 11.29.2017 From The Petrified Muse Professor of Classics Fellow of the Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia...
Ossian’s Cave front door at The Hermitage, Scotland / Photo by Roger Griffith, Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
Modern rendering of a tree fairy By Dr. David A. Wacks / 05.24.2017 Professor of Spanish Department of Romance...
An illustrated Greek medical text was found beneath the oldest Arabic translation of the Gospels. (Courtesy of St....
Ankhesenamun hands Tut an arrow / Creative Commons By Jason Daley / 01.19.2018 King Tut became a...
The Changing Character of Immigration By Kate Holladay Claghorn Photo of Claghorn in 1912 Text and images from The...
Maison Carrée, c. 4-7 C.E., Colonia Nemausus (modern Nîmes, France) By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 12.09.2015 Professor of Classical and...
View of the Forum with Mount Vesuvius in the distance, Pompeii By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 12.09.2015 Professor...
Sutton Hoo and Europe 300–1100 C.E., The Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery © The Trustees of...
A letter in Judeo-Persian dealing with financial and family matters / Afghan Genizah collection at the National...
Planned Parenthood supporters demonstrate in Columbus, Ohio, 2012. Over the last hundred years abortion practices and policies...
Ik T/Flickr/Creative Commons By Dr. Christopher Kavanagh / 05.11.2016 Post-Doctoral Researcher in Cognitive Anthropology University of Oxford...
New excavations on the remote island of Keros reveal monumental architecture and technological sophistication at the dawn...
Mezzofanti as pictured in the frontispiece to The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an introductory memoir of eminent...