An Assyrian relief from King Sargon II’s palace at Khorsabad showing a Phoenician ship transporting cedar logs....
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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...
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 /...
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...