Anonymous, Allegory of Independence (detail), 1834 (Museo Histórico Curato de Dolores, Guanajato, INAH) By Dr. Maya Jiménez...
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Site of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City since 1791 (photo: Steven Zucker) By Dr....
Nero: had a reputation as an arsonist even in antiquity. Wikimedia Commons   By Dr. Caillan Davenport...
Bran Castle, Brașov, Romania / Photo by Dobre Cezar, Creative Commons By Dr. Lucian Boia Professor of...
An equestrian statue of a Julio-Claudian prince, originally identified as Caligula. ©Trustees of the British Museum   ...
By Dr. Richard De Puma Professor Emeritus of Art History University of Iowa Etruscan Studies 11:9 (2008),...
A Roman Feast, by Roberto Bompiani, late 19th century / Getty Center, Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
Maya mask. Stucco frieze from Placeres, Campeche. Early Classic period (c. 250 – 600 AD) / Photo...
Should have stuck to white … / Creative Commons By Dr. Laurence Totelin / 12.31.2014 Lecturer in...
Lament teacher Pirkko Fihlman wears a traditional Käspaikka scarf during a gathering at her home in Helsinki....
By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 04.23.2017 From The Petrified Muse Professor of Classics Fellow of the Pontifical...
The fall of man and God’s covenant with Noah, from the Vienna Genesis, folio 3 recto, early...
By Dr. Gullög C. Nordquist Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Uppsala University Introduction Music was...
Horses disembarking from Norman longships, Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070, embroidered wool on linen, 20 inches high (Bayeux...
People in Medieval England, illustrated here by a section of the Bayeux Tapestry / The Bayeux Tapestry...
By Tori Avery / 04.08.2013 Second only to oil, coffee is the most valuable legally traded commodity...
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,...