Gillion’s Ship Attacked by the Sultan’s Army (detail) from the Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies, 1464, Lieven...
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HMS Terror. Engraving by George Back / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Keith Millar / 09.20.2016 Senior Research...
The field near the town of Dryanovets in Northeast Bulgaria where the Battle of Abritus between Rome...
Vénus aux forges de Vulcain, from Les Tentures de François Boucher Series, about 1775–1778; after painting by...
By Dr. Evangelos Konstantinou / 11.23.2012 Contributors: Konstadinos Maras and Klaus-Henning Suchland Athens University Abstract Precipitated primarily...
Attic amphora depicting Achilles and Ajax playing dice. 6th century BCE. / Creative Commons By Dr. Kevin...
Roman Opus Mixtum Wall By Victor Labate / 08.31.2016 Ancient Roman Historian Romae Vitam The many Roman...
Sabbatai Zevi By Ed Simon / 09.13.2016 PhD Candidate in English Lehigh University On September 16th 1666,...
Ancient Thracians would place grapes in the middle of the rock vessel known today as “sharapana”, and...
The Stone of Scone in the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey (Image in the public domain) By...
Grace Dalrymple Elliott by Thomas Gainsborough, 1778. © Metropolitan Museum of Art By Joanne Major and Sarah...
Haunted House Party: A Roman Comedy at the Getty Villa in full swing. Photo: Craig Schwartz As...
By Robin Lindley / 09.11.2016 Bush / Jean Edward Smith Unprepared for the complexities of governing, with...
Collective trauma: A boy walks among some of the 3,000 flags placed in memory of the lives...
Portrait of a Young Man in Red, about 1505, Circle of Raphael. Oil on panel, 26 1/2...
Bankers and Silk Merchants, from Vincent of Beauvais’ Mirror of History, Ghent, about 1475. Tempera colors and...
View overlooking the Piazza del Duomo. All photos in this post: Alexandra Kaczenski Saint Agatha’s annual religious...
By Miranda Garno Nesler / 08.03.2016 Following the death of queen Elizabeth I, Queen Anna of Denmark...
Competitive sports were alive and well in the Middle Ages. Which would be Olympic sports? This curator...
The ruins of the Ancient Roman city of Nicopolis ad Istrum in Central North Bulgaria. Photo: Ministry...
Nike, goddess of victory, crowns the winner of a boxing match. Panathenaic prize amphora with lid (detail),...
New research challenges a previous view that humans got to America via this area, where an ice-free...
Final Panel, Journey of the Human Spirit by Michael Kabotie and Delbridge Honanie – “The Hopi Water...
Hex code from the Blaster worm reveals the potential motivations of the worm’s creator. Ward Moerman ...
By Rick Shenkman and Sharon Arana / 08.05.2016 Almost every day, it seems, another historian comes out against the...
By Dr. Yoav Tenembaum / 08.07.2016 Lecturer, Diplomacy Studies Program Tel Aviv University There are two types...
The second essay in a two-part series in which Lily Ford explores how balloon flight transformed our...
By Dr. Bruce W. Dearstyne / 07.31.2016 Historian More than two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton...
A bronze statue, ‘The Boxer of Quirinal.’ Sometimes ancient Greek boxers would bribe their opponents. Wikimedia Commons...
The Ancient Greeks were the driving force behind the development of western astronomy and science, their philosophers...