Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr / Creative Commons The intellectually vapid exercise of throwing wool at...
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Maps on the Web By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief “A man of eighty,” wrote Lord Byron,...
An archaeologist excavates a casket lid from the Mississippi State Asylum (image from University of Mississippi Medical...
Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Carolingian period in the late eighth and ninth...
Alexander the Great on the mosaic from the House of Faun in Pompeii, c.100 BCE, possibly based...
Charlemagne Equestrian Statue (left), Charlemagne Golden Reliquary (center), Charlemagne’s Throne (right) By Matthew A. McIntosh...
First Performance in 1,000 Years: ‘Lost’ Songs from the Middle Ages are Brought Back to Life (VIDEO) 
First Performance in 1,000 Years: ‘Lost’ Songs from the Middle Ages are Brought Back to Life (VIDEO)
An ancient song repertory will be heard for the first time in 1,000 years this week after...
Medieval Castle Armory / Creative Commons By Martyn Shuttleworth Science and Medieval Society – Charlemagne, Scholasticism and...
The Church was a powerful force in medieval England. Here Dr Alixe Bovey examines how the Church...
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Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate What was art in the Middle Ages? Architecture was certainly a...
Some of the Ancient Roman statues displayed in the new exhibition of the National Museum of History...
By Charlene E. Maklay Professor of Anthropology Reed University He could be sleeping. Or meditating as he...
Illustration of the statue of Hercules in the Farnese Palazzo in Rome. Engraving, 1723. Wellcome Library reference:...
By K. Jan Oosthoek Associate Member, Centre for Environmental History Australian National University First Published on Environment History...
Courteous reader, this ensuing treatise hath lien by mee a long time, penned, but in a confused...
Suad Keserovic cleans a stone ball in Podubravlje village CREDIT: REUTERS/DADO RUVIC By Matthew A. McIntosh /...
A spectacular eruption in Stromboli, Italy. By K. Jan Oosthoek Environmental History On 14 April 2010 the...
It wasn’t all about Robert the Bruce, y’know. Andrew Baddeley Dr. David Green Senior Lecturer in British...
Early Medieval Map of Europe / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Paul Freedman Chester D. Tripp Professor of...
The stage of the Antiquity Amphitheater in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv. Photo: Tourbillion, Wikipedia The city of Plovdiv in...
By Alex Lee PhD Student, Italian University College London The first manuscript that I ever encountered face-to-face...
Lyudmil Vagalinski (left), Director of the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology in Sofia and lead archaeologist...
By Alixe BoveyHead of ResearchThe Courtauld Institute of Art Art, music and literature blossomed in the Middle...
The sole surviving 14-meter-tall Ancient Roman Obelisk, one of originally two, which was part of a mausoleum-turned-shrine...
A 10th century church with a necropolis has been discovered by the Ruse archaeologists during their participation...
The Antiquity Amphitheater might be the most famous of Plovdiv’s numerous impressive archaeological monuments. Photo: Old Plovdiv...
The local police and Prosecutor’s Office in the southern Bulgaria city of Haskovo are seen here at...
The restored 3rd century AD floor mosaics from the Antiquity Synagogue in ancient Philipopolis, Bulgaria’s Plovdiv, depict...
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.27.2016 An Overview I recently posted an article covering the why of...