The relief is accompanied by text in three languages – Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian. Introduction The...
Persian culture influenced the Greeks and many other civilizations, and its effects still resonate around the world...
Meet the printmaker and activist, whose images of loss, injustice, and poverty resonate today. By Christina Aube...
Analyzing the importance of Lagerlöf’s oeuvre and the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales and public...
In terms of its staging of sovereignty, passivity distinguished the Scottish king from the English tyrant. Introduction...
Shakespeare drew on earlier depictions of Richard III and other ruthless rulers in order to create his...
The trials for ambitus were numerous in the time of the republic. Introduction In ancient Roman law,...
Political offices and institutions were designed to prevent any one man from becoming too powerful. Political Institutions...
Appreciation of the quality and the artistry of the cards grew in the late 1800s. By John...
Exploring family gift giving and other holiday traditions, old and new. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win...
Sadly, Follen’s Christmas tree has gone largely forgotten. Karl Follen came to America from Germany in 1825...
Washington’s crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night 1776 led to victory, but terrible weather led to...
Nativity scenes first originated in the small Italian town of Greccio. Introduction Around the Christmas season, it...
The pagans paved the way for our modern festivities. Introduction The idea of hanging up decorations in...
The greatest gift one can give is food to a starving person. The Santa Claus we know...
Ginger root was first cultivated in ancient China, where it was commonly used as a medical treatment....
According to legend, the Ethiopian shepherd Kaldim introduced the properties of coffee to humanity in the 9th century....
Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But people have been piecing it together...
Connecting faces in 19th Century photographs to their contemporary Aboriginal descendants can tell a new history. The...
Australia’s under appreciated colonial art is a window to the past that can help us understand the...
The most lucrative cash crops to emerge from the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were...
Tobacco was first discovered by the native people of Mesoamerica and South America and later introduced to...
The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which was seen as the cause of...
Looking at a history of mental illness from the Stone Age to the 20th century. References to...
As a result of anti-homosexuality laws in the UK in the 1950s, Alan was charged with gross...
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Early Life...
It contains so many incredible violations of the laws of nature that it cannot possibly be accepted...
Written down in the mid-17th century BCE, the Atrahasis can be dated to the reign of the...
One of the best means of battling the cult of Trump is to continue to hammer away...
A tombstone commissioned by a man in memory of his deceased mother, “Siporah daughter of Dan”. Everything...