The Achaemenid Persians were far from the earliest people to shape the region. Introduction The ancient history...
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The sun loomed large in ancient Maya conceptions of the world. By Elizabeth Svoboda At the ancient...
This home cook uses food to blend both of her two rich cultural backgrounds. By Francesca Dabecco...
Traditions many of us associate with Christmas get their own cultural spin in different countries around the...
All around us are celebrations in the making – centered around beliefs that we don’t share. What’s...
Conservatives are be using these bills to catalyze Republican voters to participate in upcoming midterm elections. Introduction...
Using the “Gish Gallop” – spouting off a series of misinterpretations and falsehoods to bury his opponent...
Throughout the centuries, a number of coal miners have documented their lives with paintings. Some of their...
Did you know that tens of millions of Americans consider themselves to be regular cannabis consumers? With...
In July 1549, Francis Xavier arrived in Japan, hoping to find success converting the Japanese to Christianity....
The Western fascination with Japanese art directly followed earlier European fashions for Chinese and Middle Eastern decorative...
Neolithic people did not write. However, because they lived in settled communities, they left many traces. By...
A Yorkshire farmer argued in 1810 that homosexuality is innate and should not be punished. The diary...
The number of people assisted by food banks had been growing over the two decades before the...
There were a number of considerations that made the Separatists look to America in 1617. There were...
By the time of Din’s work in 1650, the Ramayana had grown to twenty-four thousand verses that...
The 1950s were a popular time for boxing as a number of extraordinary fighters came on the...
When he died in 1921 the singer Enrico Caruso left behind him approximately 290 commercially released recordings,...
The Rajarajesvara temple was built by one of the most successful rulers of the medieval period, Rajaraja...
Seals numbering in the thousands have been discovered in excavations of Indus cities as well as in...
Brewminate’s running weekly forecast for the 2020 election. By Matthew A. McIntoshJournalist and HistorianBrewminate Editor-in-Chief Brewminate will be...
From 16th-century playwrights to ‘The Good Place,’ wordplay has found clever ways to get around uttering profane...
The aesthetic qualities of a geometric design are what most concern the twentieth-century work on Hagia Sophia....
After serving one year on the staff of a Syrian legion, he began the long, imperial road...
30,000 slaves were captured and returned to their masters, with another 6,000 being impaled upon wooden stakes...
The hysteria quickly spread and local authorities used it as an excuse to attack both Jewish and...
Exploring the medieval roots of the now-obsolete meaning of the word ‘Twitter’. Does Twitter have its origins...
Before Facebook, we mailed idealized images of each other to those we love. My great-grandmother, who was...
Alberti’s De Pictura (On Painting, 1435) was the first theoretical text written about art in Europe. Introduction...
These luxurious manuscripts were written and illuminated between the late eighth century and the first quarter of...