The Antiquity Amphitheater might be the most famous of Plovdiv’s numerous impressive archaeological monuments. Photo: Old Plovdiv...
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Not long after ten Lancashire residents were found guilty of witchcraft and hanged in August 1612, the...
The local police and Prosecutor’s Office in the southern Bulgaria city of Haskovo are seen here at...
By Stephen D. Foster, Jr. / 03.31.2016 Senate Republicans were just taken to the woodshed by a...
The death of a king 950 years ago today opened the most important year in English history. By...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief From a lecture by Dr. Frank Holt, Professor of Ancient...
Marble Bust of Homer, Roman Copy of Hellenistic Original from 2nd Century BCE / British Museum Edited...
The restored 3rd century AD floor mosaics from the Antiquity Synagogue in ancient Philipopolis, Bulgaria’s Plovdiv, depict...
Detail Mummy Cartonnage of Bakenrenes, 26th Dynasty (664-524 BCE) / Houston Museum of Natural Science Edited by...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief From a lecture by Dr. Frank Holt, Professor of Ancient...
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.27.2016 An Overview I recently posted an article covering the why of...
Also available in chocolate. Shutterstock While you’re biting the heads off your chocolate bunnies this weekend, you...
In my struggle to try to understand the conflicts in the Middle East, I recently watched a...
Painting of Destruction of Religion Images (Icons) in Zurich, 1524 / Creative Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh...
“It’s a warm evening in ancient Greece” – Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper at “The Big Bang...
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.25.2016HistorianEditor-in-Chief, Brewminate Coin designs don’t change much in today’s world. But this...
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.25.2016: imagequiz.co.uk Roman domestic and public architecture began to overlap at some...
How the statue might look From Phil Corrigan at The Sentinel / 03.12.2016: COUNCIL leaders have revived...
A mosaic of Hercules with pet Cerberus. Photo: snarl Dogs played a special role in ancient Greek...
By Patricia Smith / 03.22.2016: That we are a country divided is nothing new. We have seen...
With the twenty-six short comic dialogues that made up Dialogues of the Gods, the 2nd-century writer Lucian...
In 1473, Alexander Hardynge, who had finished his bachelor’s degree at Oxford nearly two years previous, borrowed...
A patient drinks a dose of methadone at the Taipas rehabilitation clinic in Lisbon, Portugal © Rafael...
The two-part bronze seal dates from 1322 and was used on documents to mark the king’s authority....
From Juan Cole (Professor of History, University of Michigan), at Informed Comment: For Clinton to imply that...
Closeup of the Ludovisi Gaul (committing suicide) Photographed at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome, Italy by Mary...
By Dattatreya Mandal Beyond the ambit of military triumphs, the Romans were known for both their architectural...
Egyptian archaeologists move statues of pharaohs at the new Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza pyramids in...
Reuters / 03.18.2016: Our species, Homo sapiens, has a more adventurous sexual history than previously realized, and...
That urgent text message thumbed by their trench supervisor brought University of Cincinnati archaeologists Sharon Stocker and...