By Tori Avery / 04.08.2013 Second only to oil, coffee is the most valuable legally traded commodity...
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Fresco from Mycenae (1250-1180 BCE). Photo by Mark Cartwright, Archeaological Museum Mycenae By Judith Weingarten / 11.27.2016...
Though some claim the stone structure at Pumapunku were alien, archaeologists find no real mysteries there. By...
By Dr. Todd Alexander Davis Instructor of Classics Belmont Hill School Introduction Despite a renewed interest in...
Photo by Tom Murphy, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jack Lule Professor of Journalism and Communication Lehigh University...
Syrians bearing tribute to Darius the Great of Persia / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lori Khatchadourian Assistant...
An exhibition for the Luther monument in Worms. AP Photo/Jens Meyer By Dr. Richard Gunderman Professor of...
05.13.2017 Egypt has unearthed an ancient burial site replete with at least 17 mummies, most fully intact,...
Interior of the Tomb of the Reliefs at Cerveteri (ancient Caere). 3rd century BCE / Photo by...
Latent fingermarks dusted with micronised Egyptian blue on a $20 note, viewed in the Near Infrared. Simon...
The Birth of Minverva, by René-Antoine Houasse, 17th century / Palace of Versailles By Dr. Shanna Kennedy-Quigley...
Creating a buzz. / Photo by davidabrahamovitch/Flickr By Dr. Adam J. Smith / 06.29.2015 Honorary Research Fellow...
Procession, going to the afterlife. 1st century BCE. Tarquinia, Tomb of Typhon. / Florida State University, Creative...
Pompeii; via di Mercurio with Mount Vesuvius. Photo: Carlo Mirante (Source: Flickr Creative Commons) By Dr. Sebastian...
 Aristarchus’s 3rd-century BCE calculations on the relative sizes of (from left) the Sun, Earth and Moon,...
By Dr. Joshua J. Mark / 03.18.2016 Professor of Philosophy Marist College Introduction The great temples and...
Image by Fernando Vergara Pina, Creative Commons Lecture by Dr. Jean-Pierre Brun, 04.05.2012 Professor of Ancient History...
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Map of ancient Rome and Forma Urbis, from Le antichità Romane, 1835-1839. By Dr....
By Dr. Brita Alroth Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History Upplala University, Sweden Introduction The title of...
Family tree photo by Herry Lawford, Creative Commons By Dr. J. David Vellman Professor of Philosophy and...
Over a period of 30 years, millions of criminals and political prisoners were sent to Soviet labor...
The stone flakes are flying, but what brain regions are firing? / Photo by Shelby S. Putt...
Parthenon / Wikimedia Commons By Marina Spanos / 11.25.2012 Introduction Modern society always seems to put itself...
Roosevelt shortly after leaving office, October 1910 / American Press Association, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
Gypsies in the Market, by Hans Burgkmair the Elder, c.1510 / Nationalmuseum, Stockholm By Dr. Shulamith Shahar...
Detail from greek vase showing women preparing wool. Diosphos Painter. / British Museum, London By Dr. Ann...
Reconstruction of the Basilica of Maxentius / Jorgen Hartogs, Vimeo By Katleiah Ramos / 09.30.2013 Â Introduction...
Provinces and districts of Ottoman Syria (1696). Palmyra/Tadmor is not marked; my red dot indicates its approximate...
Witches presenting wax dolls to the devil, featured in The History of Witches and Wizards (1720) /...
Figure 1: Map of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent under Trajan By Marissa Gelms /...