Medieval Monastic Complex By Max Adams / 11.29.2016 Dark Ages: What Dark Ages? It is not a...
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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 /...
By Bryan C. KeeneAssistant Curator, Department of ManuscriptsGetty Museum In medieval Europe there was a close link...
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,...
A reconstruction of the gate of the Roman fort at Lunt (Coventry, UK) By Mark Cartwright /...
Stele of Minnakht, chief of the scribes, 14th century BCE. (Louvre Museum, Paris) By Dr. Joshua J....
Ruins of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace (Samothraki), Greece. / Photo: Marsyas, Wikimedia Commons...
Drawing of Leibniz’s calculating machine, featured as a folding plate in Miscellanea Berolensia ad incrementum scientiarum (1710),...
Kwakwaka’wakw artist, Eagle Mask closed, late 19th c., from Alert Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, cedar...
Paper negative and paper print: Notre-Dame, Paris, about 1853, Charles Nègre. Waxed paper negative (left), 13 1/4...
Alexander von Humboldt self-portrait. By Dr. Richard Gunderman Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy Indiana University...
By Gregory Rehmke Director of Educational Programs Free Enterprise Institute of Houston Greek art, architecture, literature, philosophy,...
Conservators position a panel of Vasari’s The Last Supper vertically to align the edges of the joint....
An illustration from Puck mocking William Jennings Bryan and his whistle stop tour (1896) By Dr. Charles...
Greene as pictured in the frontispiece to John Dickenson’s Greene in Conceipt (1598) / Wikimedia Commons Known...
Luminous ‘Spirit’ Trumpet Why does one of the world’s great research libraries have ‘ectoplasm’, a spirit trumpet...