Tracing the sad medieval history of the siren and trying to understand where it all went wrong....
Alexandria – View of ruins of the Serapeum from Pompey’s Pillar / Photo by Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia...
Drunken Old Woman. Late 3rd century BCE. Hellenistic Sculpture / Photo by Evergreen State College, Creative Commons...
The fact that these were kept secret during the Obama administration is cause for great concern. (Photo:...
Spanish conquistador style armour / Photo by John Martin Perry, Wikimedia Commons Columbus’s colonization of the Atlantic...
The Inquisition Tribunal, by Francisco Goya, c.1815 / Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Wikimedia...
Mosaic of amphorae being unloaded from a ship, Ostia / Southampton University, Creative Commons The trade networks...
Hundreds of ancient gold coins were unearthed in the basement of a demolished theater in northern Italy....
The charred papyrus scroll recovered from Herculaneum is preserved in 12 trays mounted under glass. Here is...
The drawing found on silcrete stone in Blombos Cave. Craig Foster Scientists discovered a 73 000-year-old cross-hatched...
Dr. Benjamin Rush The first attacks on Rush followed the outbreak of a devastating yellow fever epidemic...
Jefferson’s faith in free presses was ultimately faith in the people with a moral sensibility sufficient to...
Typical imperial Inca trapezoid windows from the sacred precinct of Coricancha, Cuzco, c. 1438 CE / Photo...
Sunrise over Machu Picchu / Photo by Allen Schmidt, Wikimedia Commons Forgotten for centuries by the outside...
Americans have long differed over whether patriotism should be pushed in their nation’s schools. vepar5/www.shutterstock.com As debates...
Ancient Roman inscription from Marseille (France) / Photo by Rossignol Benoît, Musée Calvet, Wikimedia Commons Quaestor to...
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi / Photo by tamara semina, Wikimedia Commons The fact that the...
Original designs for battleship HMS Dreadnought, produced by the British Royal Navy in 1905 / British Library,...
A knight fighting a dragon, 15th-century woodcut / Rauner Special Collections Library, Wikimedia Commons The emergence of...
Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, tempera and oil on oak panel, 82.2 x 60 cm...
Artwork page for ‘The Cholmondeley Ladies’, Unknown artist, Britain, c.1600-10 / Tate Britain In the Middle Ages,...
Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1882-1888 / Wikimedia Commons Examining Cicero’s views on the construction...
Bust carved by by Victor Wager from a model by Paul Montford, University of Western Australia, Crawley,...
Photo by Elvert Barnes, Flickr, Creative Commons The free exercise of religion doesn’t include a right to...
Inscription under the statue of Mary Dyer at the Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston. Note that the place given of...
John F. Paramino’s relief sculpture is the Founders Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. It shows Boston’s first resident,...
Shutterstock Critics like that anonymous op-ed writer have no problem with how Trump’s actually hurting people. They...
South transept of Tournai Cathedral, Belgium, 12th century / Wikimedia Commons The Romanesque style appeared to be...
Carolingian gatehouse, Lorsch Abbey (Torhalle Kloster Lorsch) / Photo by Warrox, Wikimedia Commons The Carolingian Dynasty is...
Forum, looking toward Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii Pompeii was not always a Roman town. By the mid-sixth century...