By David Pescovitz / 12.05.2016 This oft-seen wonderfully weird photo depicts Hugo Gernsback wearing his “teleyeglasses” in...
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Louis-Michel van Loo’s portrait of Denis Diderot painted in 1767 / Wikimedia Commons October marked 300 years...
Brauron. View of the sanctuary of Artemis from the southwest. On the left is the Doric stoa...
By Dr. Stephen Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris Zucker – Dean of Art and History, Khan...
By Barry Ritholtz / 12.02.2016 5 years ago, Boing Boing described James Gleick’s The Information: A History,...
By Dr. Walter G. Moss / 12.04.2016 Professor Emeritus of History Eastern Michigan University This essay is...
By Dr. Joshua J. Mark Professor of Philosophy Marist College The Egyptian Book of the Dead is...
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory...
Temple of Athena Nike, 421-05 B.C.E., marble, Acropolis, Athens By Katarzyna Minollari PhD Candidate in Art History...
Prayer to Thoth for skill in writing. The prayer is written in hieratic script, found at Thebes...
Detail from a satirical print from 1830 depicting Humphry Davy administering a dose of Laughing Gas to...
By Tanja Taljaard / 12.02.2016 How Can Nature Nurture You? A dose of nature can cure many...
Medieval Monastic Complex By Max Adams / 11.29.2016 Dark Ages: What Dark Ages? It is not a...
By Cory Doctorow / 11.30.2016 Typewriter historian Martin Howard (previously) writes, “I was able to pick up...
The newly discovered 1st century AD Roman inscription in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv provides invaluable information about ancient Philipopolis...
Installation view of The Shimmer of Gold: Giovanni di Paolo in Renaissance Siena at the Getty Center....
By Mark Frauenfelder / 11.28.2016 Tsujigiri is the Japanese word for lopping off an innocent person’s head...
By Dr. Larry D. Ferreiro / 11.20.2016 Professor of History and Engineering George Mason University, Virginia /...
The geocentric system of the world, with the Earth at the center of the Universe, was as...
Left: Front of Krater. Right: Back of Krater. Colossal Krater from Altamura, about 350 B.C., Greek, made...
A researcher cleans the skeleton of a person interred around 3,000 years ago at a recently discovered...
Tradition tells of a chime that changed the world on July 8, 1776, with the Liberty Bell...
Members and supporters of the Arapaho and Cheyenne Native American tribes, 2014. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley By Dr....
The newly discovered Ancient Roman bath house in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv dates to ca. 2nd century AD. Photo:...
11.22.2016 Forty-seven years ago, humans first set foot on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. That...
Thought to have arrived from China in 2000 BC, latest research shows domesticated rice agriculture in India...
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison gather for a concert, date unknown / insidecdcr.ca.gov On the centenary...
Jennie A. Brownscombe’s ‘The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth’ (1914). Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Peter C. Mancall /...
By Krystal Young / 11.16.2016 What makes a group of people instantly feel like a place is...
Detail of Mercury, “The Hypocritical Planet,” watercolor in Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini, Book of Wonders and Oddities,...