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Three water nymphs (stone bas relief of the “Triple Coventina”), found in Coventina’s Well, Carrawburgh, near Hadrian’s...
By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of Russian and European History Michigan State University Anti-Parasite Law...
King Charles I Lecture by Dr. Keith Wrightson / 11.05.2009 Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History...
A depiction of the Second Continental Congress voting on the United States Declaration of Independence, by Robert...
Sputnik 1, first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 / Photo from the...
Introduction to the Fulleries (Fullonicae) A number of tiny and very large fulleries has been found in...
Replica of the Gokstad Viking ship complete with the Stars and Stripes proudly flying, featured at the...
The head bust of the Colossus of Constantine, a huge acrolithic statue that once occupied the west...
Augustus as Pontifex Maximus: head covered, wearing the toga and calcei patricii (shoes reserved for Patricians), he...
The Emperor Trajan as Pontfex Maximus on the Column of Trajan, Rome / Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
Ingenious innovation of the ancient world does not cease to amaze. Tilemahos Efthimiadis By Dr. Steven Tingay...
King James and Puritans at the Hampton Court Conference, 1604 / Wikimedia Commons Professor Wrightson reviews the...
Statue of Saint Martin cutting his cloak in two above the Höchst Castle’s gate / Höchster Schloss,...
Nikita Kruschev announcing the creation of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, January 16, 1953 / Wikimedia Commons By...
Epitaph for Margarita, marble slab inscription / British Museum By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 08.14.2015 From The...
One of a Pair of Cups with Centaurs (detail), A.D. 1–100, Roman, found at Berthouville, France. Silver...
17th Century Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer / National Portrait Gallery, London By Dr. Michael Delahoyde / 10.05.2012...
In contrast to Western Europeans, new research finds contemporary East Asians are genetically much closer to the...
When one undertakes to administer justice, it must be with an even hand, and by rule; what...
Tomb (of the Funeral Bed?), 470-60 B.C.E., found in the necropolis of Tarquinia (Villa Giulia, Rome) Author...
Photograph of Karl Marx, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 1875 / International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam,...
William James Bennett, “View of South Street, from Maiden Lane, New York City,” ca. 1827 / Metropolitan...
Clouds pouring from the volcano on Krakatoa (aka Krakatau or Rakata) in south western Indonesia during the...
Children in the Russian Famine of 1946-1947 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor...
The ancient Roman city of Ostia was in antiquity situated at the mouth of the river Tiber,...
Judeo-Spanish: A Dying Language By Dr. Haïm Vidal Séphiha / 1997 Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Université Paris...
Palace of Westminster / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. John Merriman / 10.08.2008 Charles Seymour Professor of...
By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of Russian and European History Michigan State University 900 Days...
Left: A Sumerian tablet with cylinder seal impression of a hunter with hunting dogs and boars....