So-called “Peplos Scene” from the east Parthenon frieze (panels E31-35). The scene may depict the peplos garment...
History
Robert Lowell, American Poet By Robin Lindley / 11.10.2017 I believe that mania and genius not uncommonly...
Otto Dix, Assault Troops Advance under Gas (Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor). 1924. Tate Liverpool. The paintings...
Lead archaeologist Lyudmil Vagalinski shows the last of the total of four ancient shrines discovered after every...
The Beauty of Palmyra, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek By Judith Weingarten / 09.02.2015 Archaeologist The Beauty of Palmyra When...
This khipu, which was made before the Spanish conquest of the Incas, was probably used for accounting, as...
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II, Engraved by Bernard Baron, 1745 / Wellcome Library By Dr. Anna Katharina Schaffner /...
View over Buttermere in Wordsworth’s favoured Lake District, England. Paul Albertella/Flickr By Dr. Fiona Stafford / 11.07.2016 Professor...
Portrait of two Ainu men from Sakhalin, photo by Bronislaw Pilsudski / National Museum of Natural History,...
Tiny samples taken from ancient European skulls, in a process shown here, yielded enough DNA for researchers...
An aerial view of the Ancient Thracian mound which has turned out to hide the ruins of...
Lecture by Dr. Roger Tomlin at the Museum of London / 10.10.2017 Professor Emeritus Wolfson College University...
By Dr. Peter StearnsProvost Emeritus Professor of HistoryGeorge Mason University Introduction The word “shameless” is being tossed around an...
‘When you look back on it, where else would those articles appear? The Saturday Evening Post?’ Nick Lehr/The...
Left: Dish with Peacock Feather Pattern, about 1470–1500, Italian. Tin-glazed earthenware, 2 1/2 × 15 3/8 in. The...
Detail from La Liberté Triomphante (1792), showing Liberty brandishing a thunderbolt in one hand and a Phrygian cap on...
Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man, is the subject of Walter Isaacson’s newest book. Pictured is...
By Dr. Joel Alden Schlosser / 04.17.2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science Bryn Mawr College Schlosser, Joel...
Closed altarpiece. Left to right: before, during, and after restoration. A newly expanded web application provides an...
Engraving of a tableau by Frederik Ruysch (1744) Etching with engraving / National Library of Medicine By Dolly...
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology produced by William Bally in 1832. Image Credit: Science Museum,...
By Neil Schoenherr / 11.01.2017 Senior News Director, Law and Social Network Washington University, St. Louis Malnutrition...
A massive bulk cargo ship, the Pasha Bulker / Photo by Tim J. Keegan, Creative Commons By Guglielmo...
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, by John Trumbull (1786) / Museum...
The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819), by Theodore Gericault / The Louvre, Paris By Dolly Stolze /...
The skull of a Neandertal known as Shanidar 1 show signs of a blow to the head...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
Photo by Anna_Pustynnikova 11.02.2017 Everyone has a favorite sandwich, often prepared to an exacting degree of specification: Turkey...
Lithograph (1892) depicting artist’s vision of the Salem Witch Trials, by Joseph Baker. / Library of Congress...
The Illustrated London News (August 4, 1917) with highlights from the Hope Heirlooms sale including the Hope...