Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 12.14.2016 Description: The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was a great building...
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By Robin Lindley / 12.11.2016 If you’re over age 40 or so and lived in Washington State...
By Dr. Walter G. Moss / 12.11.2016 Professer Emeritus of History Eastern Michigan University In a previous...
A Celtic parade helmet in gold with coral inlay, c. 350 BCE. Found buried in a cave...
‘Doctor, whenever I get up I feel dizzy for half an hour.’ ‘Then wait for half an...
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675 –...
The Danse Macabre, A woodcut from 1499, currently at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris by an Unknown Artist The Black...
April 1947, Edwin H. Land demonstrating the Polaroid Land Camera’s instant film. / Image courtesy of Baker...
Paintings conservator Devi Ormond cleans Guercino’s Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, c. 1620, Guercino. On loan...
Stonehenge, c. 3,000 B.C.E., Salisbury Plain, England Introduction By Dr. Senta German Ashmolean Museum of Art and...
Even without iPhones, people in the 19th century liked to see how long they could strike a...
By Dr. Katherine A. East Professor of Classics Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Newscastle University International Journal of...
By Dr. Paul Brians Emeritus Professor of English Washington State University Why did the ice age end?...
An Assyrian relief from King Sargon II’s palace at Khorsabad showing a Phoenician ship transporting cedar logs....
Jacqueline, anonymous painting from the 16th C. By Susan Abernethy / 12.02.2016 The Freelance History Writer In...
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt By Dr. Gregory Sumner / 12.07.2016 Professor of History University of Detroit Mercy...
A Wound Man from a late 15th-century manuscript, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 597 / Munich Digitization Center This...
“Nothing is more important to us here at the monument than commemorating the lives of those who...
By David Pescovitz / 12.05.2016 This oft-seen wonderfully weird photo depicts Hugo Gernsback wearing his “teleyeglasses” in...
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. MarkProfessor of PhilosophyMarist College Introduction The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a...
Overview The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the...
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...