Some of Van Gogh’s most iconic floral artworks, painted in 1888 and 1889, are facing the test...
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The Achaean League was a Hellenistic period confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese between 280 BCE and 146 BCE. / Image...
The Hindu god Ganesha. Anant Nath Sharma, CC BY-NC-ND Offering food to deities in Hinduism has deep religious significance. And most Hindu deities are not served...
A woman holds Pope Francis’ head during his meeting with representatives of indigenous peoples at the Vatican...
Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy The myth of a monstrous giant squid prowling the oceans has persisted for centuries but scientists have been...
Warner Brothers In the world of Harry Potter, beasts are to be protected, not feared. But this concern for monsters is hardly modern....
Great Temple of Ramesses II (left) and Small Temple of Nefertari (right) / Photo by Holger Weinandt, Wikimedia...
The funerary temple complex of Djoser / Photo by Lansbricae, Wikimedia Commons The hallmarks of ancient Egyptian civilization,...
A 1969 photo of political theorist and scholar Hannah Arendt. AP Photo Hannah Arendt, a political theorist, fled Germany...
Even if you’ve never read or seen any of Shakespeare’s works, his influence has touched your life. Photo...
Excavating the eastern wall section of Halmyris in 2016. Emily Hanscam, Author provided Excavating the history of migration along the frontier of the Danube. By Emily Hanscam / 07.25.2017...
Piazza del Popolo. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND From the Temple of Heliopolis to the centre of Rome, the massive stone column has...
EPA It takes more than a quick scan for high-tech archaeology to reveal history’s secrets. By Dr. Kristian Strutt / 03.23.2016...
Painting from El Castillo cave (Cantabria, Spain). Early Upper Palaeolithic or older. Photo Becky Harrison and courtesy Gobierno...
Coming out at any age presents a series of life-altering challenges. Large areas of the U.S. remain sharply opposed to...
A timeline of Shakespeare’s plays / Creative Commons Defining national culture and identity. By Dr. Eugene O’Brien...
Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler (28 November 1941). By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA...
Renaissance master Andrea Palladio designed Villa La Rotonda with rooms of various characters, which at night served...
Hendrick Avercamp’s ‘Ice Scene’ (c. 1610). Wikimedia Commons The function of fashion as a form of cultural transfer in...
Sky Atlantic We think of the Druids as being embedded in British culture from the mists of ancient times. But what we think we know...
© MGM With Vikings on trend, it’s high time for a masterclass on the bizarre world of their names. By Keith Ruiter / 02.18.2016...
By Dr. Katherine Mellon Charron Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Introduction Segregation contradicts what...
George Caleb Bingham, “The County Election,”, via Reynolda House Museum of American Art How did the federal government...
Too late lads, the Scots are already there. Oscar Wergeland Iceland was one of the last island groups...
Mikladalur, Faroe Islands / Photo by Davide Gorla, Wikimedia Commons The Faroe Islands could have been inhabited 500 years earlier...
Jerash is famous for its well-preserved Greco-Roman columns, seen here on the ancient Jordanian city’s main street....
Virgil reads the Aeneid to Octavia and Augustus. Angelica Kauffmann/Hermitage/Wikimedia Commons Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid documents the founding of Rome by a...
Nathan Birbaum,(1864 – 1937) Austrian writer, Jewish thinker and nationalist. Wikicommons/ Zionist Archive. Some rights reserved. These...