Cult copper statue of a crocodile. From Faiyum, modern-day Egypt. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, circa 1800 BCE....
History
Nero’s Domus Aureau, Rome, 64-68 CE / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.17.2009...
The Old Centaur, Hadrianic grey-black marble sculpture of a centaur based on Hellenistic models. By Carole Raddato...
Portrait of Marie Antoinette / Public Domain By Catherine Delors Historical Novelist The Queen liked to be...
Reconstruction (courtesy Dr. Bernard Frischer, Rome Reborn), Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus) Rome,...
Dig at Troy / Wikimedia Commons While digs at ancient sites have in general revealed much important...
By Dr. John S. Wilkins / 08.05.2016 Honorary Research Fellow University of Melbourne Nature versus Humanity Before...
The motor merchant Caribsea prior to World War II. Photo courtesy of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections,...
Trafficking of Ancient Roman statues from the Middle East has gotten a Bulgarian and a Turk a...
Early Modern English port / Public Domain Lecture by Dr. Keith Wrightson / 09.15.2009 Randolph W. Townsend,...
Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber By Dr. Iván Szelényi / 09.03.2008 Professor Emeritus...
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula / Wikimedia Commons From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake...
An electroconvulsive therapy machine is seen at an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London in 2012....
Emperor Justinian and his retinue, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 527-457 CE, mosaic / Wikimedia Commons By...
Tombs on the Appian Way, Rome / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.12.2009...
Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game, by Exekias, vase painting, 6th century BCE / Wikimedia Commons By...
When 13-year-old Qin Emperor Shi Huangdi came to power in 221 B.C.E., one of his first acts...
Self-Portrait, about 1730, Edme Bouchardon (French, 1698–1762). Red chalk, 19.8 x 13.5 cm. The Morgan Library &...
Marble statue of Socrates, Athens / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Steven B. Smith / 09.15.2006 Alfred Cowles...
Reconstructed aerial view of Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire / Wikimedia Commons...
Forum of Augustus, 42 BCE, Rome / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.10.2009...
Bronze statuette of a dog, part of the Nimrud dogs, a Neo-Assyrian collection of dog figurines found...
Peter the Great portrait by Paul Delaroche / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. John Merriman / 09.15.2008 Charles...
1411 drawing of plague-infected people from a German-language Bible known as the Toggenburg Bible. / Wikimedia Commons...
Lecture by Dr. Paul H. Freedman / 09.21.2011 Chester D. Tripp Professor of History Chair, History of...
Via dell’ Abbondanza, Pompeii / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.05.2009 Dunham Professor,...
Bust of Herodotus / Wikimedia Commons Herodotus is the “Father of History” and—according to some—also the “Father...
A line drawing of Epictetus writing at a table with a crutch draped across his lap and...
Asclepius or Hippocrates treating an ill woman, 5th century BCE marble relief / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by...
Destruction of Empire by Thomas Cole, 18th century, oil on canvas / New York Gallery of Fine...