From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student J.C. Back) / 11.02.2015Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Washington...
History
A political leader who seeks to make his nation “great again” and a time when ‘post-truth’ rhetoric...
“We will lose much of the record of the last several thousand years of human occupation in...
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera colors...
One man’s quest to create a library of everything, 500 years before Google Books was conceived, foreshadowed...
From Khan Academy By Dr. Bryan Zygmont / 11.21.2015 Associate Professor of Art History Clarke University Venus of Willendorf,...
The first study to compare ancient and living female bones shows that women from early agricultural eras...
Women shipfitters working on board the USS Nereus at the U.S. Navy Yard in Mare Island, circa...
For the first time, human beings harnessed the power of atomic fission. Keith Ruffles, Creative Commons By Dr....
Making Irish coffee / Photo by Frettie, Wikimedia Commons The cavemen were drunk and revolutionaries were caffeinated....
Bessie Black Horn created the Many Hands shirt around 1910 to commemorate the “multiple handshakes” that her...
Apollo 11 Cave Stones, Namibia, quartzite, c. 25,500–25,300 B.C.E. Image courtesy of State Museum of Namibia.’ By Nathalie...
Various types of furnaces, 15th century / MS. 446, folio 65 recto. Wellcome Images L0032812 By Julia MartinsPhD...
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville, 2016 / Courtesy Ste. Michelle Wine Estates By Peter Blecha / 09.04.2017 Introduction Chateau...
“I’m drawn to people who don’t fit neatly into boxes,” says Professor Maya Jasanoff about the subject...
The Shakespearean Forest reimagines the real forests that our greatest playwright evoked in his works. The final book of...
Gold coin showing facing busts of Nero and Agrippina / Wikimedia Commons By Amanda Gardner / 11.02.2015...
A large Late Roman settlement near Bulgaria’s Moshtanets, which was also inhabited earlier, ca. 1,000 BC, has...
Handaxe, lower paleolithic, about 1.8 million years old, hard green volcanic lava (phonolite), 23.8 x 10 cm, found at...
Replica of the painting from the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southern France (Anthropos museum, Brno) By Dr....
The Deluge tablet of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian By Danielle Dencio / 2007 The Epic of Gilgamesh is...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Bailey Anne Cook) / 12.04.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and...
A statue of Isis, the Ancient Egyptian goddess, and a head from a human-sized statue of a...
Engraving by Jean-Frédéric de Waldeck, featured in Monuments anciens du Mexique. Palenqué et autres ruines de l’ancienne civilisation...
Image courtesy of Light show via Wikimedia Commons, and edited by Shannon Sands By Dr. Mark English / 11.11.2017 Philosopher In a recent...
Pious drinking. Walter Dendy Sadler via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Foley / 11.17.2017 Associate Professor of Patristics...
Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, during the influenza epidemic around 1918. National...
When the ringing of a bell comes to mean something more. Maisei Raman/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Edward Wasserman /...
‘ Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebecca, known as The Jewish Bride, 1665-69, oil...
The team of donkeys walks past the mud mosque laden with with their heavy items of transport....