A virtual reality scene – one for each eye – of a haunted ride. Joel Zika By...
History
Constantine the Great presents the city (Constantinople) and Justinian the Great presents Hagia Sophia to the Virgin,...
By Andrea James / 10.25.2016 Megan Rosenbloom at Lapham’s Quarterly delves into anthropodermic bibliopegy, the strange history...
Looks like paradise – but how did the first people get there? Global Environment Facility By Dr....
By Mark Weisenmiller / 10.24.2016 “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better...
Victorious Youth; Unknown; Greece; 300 – 100 B.C.; Bronze with inlaid copper; 151.5 × 70 × 27.9...
Ouija Board / Shutterstock By Dr. Joseph P. Laycock / 10.18.2016 Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Texas...
A screen grab from the movie / Credit: Panfilov’s 28 Men By Christopher Woolf / 10.15.2016 A...
Der Fluchthelfer Klaus M. von Keussler beim Ausschachten eines Fluchttunnels. Foto: Wolfgang Fuchs By Greg Mitchell /...
J. Paul Getty at Jerash (ancient Gerasa) in Jordan, 1954. Institutional Archives, The Getty Research Institute. 5...
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1770-1806 (Photo: Rick Stillings By Dr. Bryan Zygmont Associate Professor of Art...
La Sorbonne, Paris / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Giles Gasper / 03.10.2016 Senior Lecturer in Medieval History...
Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer), Early Classical Period, Roman marble copy after a Greek bronze original from c. 450-440 B.C.E....
By Dr. Renee M. Gondek Adjunct Professor of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion University of Mary Washington A...
Ostia Antica / Wikimedia Commons By Martyn Shuttleworth If you took a poll about Roman engineering and...
Portrait Head of a Balding Man, Roman, about A.D. 240. Marble, 10 1/16 in. high. The J....
The Rape of Helen by Tintoretto (1578–1579, Museo del Prado, Madrid); Helen languishes in the corner of...
10.14.2016 Appreciated today for its aesthetic qualities, color during the Middle Ages was also understood for its...
Courtesy of the YouTube channel Skunk Bear Transcript: You probably know that pencil lead isn’t actually...
Hôtel de Ville in Vannes (Photo copyright of The Freelance History Writer) By Susan Abernethy / 09.23.2016...
Bible, about 1280–90, Bologna, Italy. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 11, fol. 248v Medieval...
Assassination of Julius Caesar By Michael Parenti On the 15th of March, 44 BC, in a meeting...
The Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas by Théodore … Cliché Musées Nationaux, Paris / Creative...
10.12.2016 When William Harrison disappeared from Campden, England, in 1660, his servant offered an incredible explanation: that...
A set of 23 splits (each of them over 20 cm in length) from a single flint...
By Bill Fawcett #1 — 480 BCE: Xerxes had almost conquered Greece when he sailed into the...
Artists beloved to be Asuman and Atanur Dogan. By Jonathan Davis / 10.11.2016 The Hidden Power of...
Ferroconcrete reconstruction of Suzuka Gate, on site of former Heijo Palace in western Nara City. An ancient...
Sen. Herman “Little Joe” Welker of Idaho (left) stands with Sens. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin (center) and...
Uribe in one of her history programs. Photograph shared on Google with permission for republication. By...