Reconstruction of a late Cycladic Ship with a hypothetical visualization of the eruption on the Pre-Kameni Island...
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A great Italian opera by Franz Liszt – which lay incomplete and largely forgotten in a German...
Marie Skłodowska Curie, 1867-1934, a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity...
Edouard Manet, Porto Santo Island sketch, 1848. This sketch was sent to Manet’s mother in a letter,...
Photograph of Old Cloth/Street & Co, photo by Thomas Annan, 1878 / Public Domain By Dr. Lionel...
This painting by Roberto Bompiani captures a common 19th-century association of Roman dining and excess. A Roman...
Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti on a Farman biplane, Rome 1910. / Wikimedia Commons International History Blog In April...
The Regiment Baleste faces off with the Ottomans in standard Western European formation / Wikimedia Commons By...
Grave Circle A (right) and the main entrance of the citadel (left). Mycenae. / Photo by Andreas...
School of Athens fresco, by Raphael, c.1510 / Apostolic Palace, Vatican City Lecture by Dr. Eleanor Dickey...
The Standard of Ur War Panel, 2600 BCE / British Museum, London Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh...
Jain monks in Gujarat, India By Dr. John E. Cort / 10.01.2015 Professor of Asian and Comparative...
Detail of a Turfan Manichaen Illuminated Scroll / Turfan Antiquarian Bureau, China By Guity Novin / 03.23.2014...
By Dr. Andrea Komlosy Professor of Economic and Social History University of Vienna Journal of World-Systems Research...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.04.2017 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Kaymakli A large room several floors down into...
Upper teeth of a Neanderthal who lived about 40,000 years ago. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg By Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg...
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University From Thomas...
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, by Eugène Delacroix, 1826, Inspired by Lord Byron’s poem The...
The introduction of the Spinning Mule into cotton production processes helped to drastically increase industry consumption of...
These four volumes of German poetry are wrapped in manuscript waste materials written in Hebrew. / J....
The graphic design artist who created this magnificent Tarot deck was Gioseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718) from Bologna,...
The peak sanctuary at Petsofas: reconstruction with a tripartite building and medium horns of consecration. / Wikimedia...
The earliest work of Indian aesthetics is Bharata’s “Natya Shastra.” It consists of a few instructions to...
Thomas Merton / PBS By Dr. John Smelcer Fellow in English Binghamton University Sometimes the greatest stories...
1:10 Hill and Adamson, “Newhaven Fishermen.” By Thomas Annan, 1845. Salted paper print. Metropolitan Museum of Art....
View of Prospect Bluff from the former location of Fort Gadsden / Photo by John Horse, Wikimedia...
Drinking coffee and tea in Early Modern Europe, a depiction of Tom King’s Coffee House, by William...
Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) from the Resurrection fresco, by Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto), c.1494 / Vatican...
The sacrifice of Polyxena by the triumphant Greeks (Attic black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora, c.570-550 BCE) / British Museum,...
From the biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian, c.1095 / Metropolitan Museum of...