Stupa 3, 1st c., Sanchi, India (photo: Nagarjun Kandukuru) By Dr. Karen Shelby / 08.09.2015 Assistant Professor of Art History Baruch...
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The warrior was buried in an olive grove outside the acropolis of Pylos. Though archaeologist Carl Blegen...
Salisbury Village and the River Avon By Jaunting Jen / 01.26.2017 All photos provided by author The...
By Dr. Ethan Watrall / 10.27.2014 Assistant Professor of Anthropology Michigan State University To the Ancient Egyptians,...
The Pentice, Winchester. Scene of an altercation between three women, 28 September 1544. / Wikimedia Commons By...
Illustrated map of scenes of the Axe murders, March 1919. / Times-Picayune By Dr. Romeo Vitelli /...
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston. Photo...
By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of Russian and European History Michigan State University Aleksandr Gerasimov...
Alfonso X of Castile and his court, as shown in the 12th-century Libro de los Juegos /...
Old Grammar School, Church Square, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, Founded in 1607 by Robert Smyth (a bus stop...
Opening of the Declaration of Independence / Wikimedia Commons Professor Freeman discusses the Declaration of Independence and...
Aztec Sun Stone (Calendar Stone) / National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City By René Voorburg Introduction A colored...
Matala cave tombs, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies...
Fireworks go off before Super Bowl XLVIII between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. Andrew Kelly/Reuters...
Dante meets Beatrice at Ponte Santa Trinità , inspired by La Vita Nuova (Beatrice is in white). By...
By Henry J. Sage / 11.15.2016 Historian Introduction The revolutionary fighting ended with the surrender of Cornwallis’s...
Introduction Horrea for grain – light blue; dolia defossa – dark blue; other store buildings – yellow;...
Portrait of John Quincy Adams, by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858 / White House Blue Room  ...
Portrait of Thomas Paine by Auguste Millière, 1880 / National Portrait Gallery, Washington A focus on the...
Moscow before Reconstruction, by Viktor Ruikovich (1927) / Photodome By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of...
The Beggars Chorus: this ballad celebrates someone who was often treated as a pariah by early modern...
The Chapel of Saint Ananias, located near Bab Sharqi in the old Christian quarter of Damascus, Syria,...
Tablet V of the epic of Gilgamesh. The left half of the whole tablet has survived and...
Ming dynasty (1368-1644) waterwheel at Lanzhou, Gansu / Photo by Caitriana Nicholson, Wikimedia Commons 11.30.2016 Chinese Technology...
 Early Minoan Settlement at Trypiti / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of...
From a teensy skeleton to a dog’s tombstone, a tour through the most evocative death-related objects in...
Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783. Britannia offers solace and a...
President Dwight Eisenhower stands with the host, Conrad Hilton, right, hotelman, as prayer opens fourth annual prayer...
Stalin on building of Moscow-Volga canal. It was constructed from 1932 to 1937 by Gulag prisoners. /...
Marble statue of Mithras slaying the bull, 2nd century CE / British Museum By Dr. Mark Damen...