William Holman Hunt, The flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the drunkenness attending the revelry (The Eve of...
The Ascension of Christ (detail) from the Laudario of Sant’Agnese, about 1340, Pacino di Bonaguida. Tempera and gold...
By Dr. N.P. Swartz Director: Unit for Legal Historical Research University of the Free State ABSTRACT Thomas...
The Norman-built keep at Cardiff Castle. Matthew Dixon/Shutterstock At one point, the Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Bretons and northern English were...
Yurri and Wanjel – the Gemini stars Castor and Pollux in the Wergaia traditions of western Victoria,...
Helen McCrory as Medea. Richard Hubert Smith/National Theatre By Dr. Laura Swift / 07.23.2014 Lecturer in Classical Studies The Open...
How do survivors find healing? Chum Mey, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, walks past a...
“We should make sure that the revolution is transmitted!” / CC-BY-NC 2.0 doc(q)man By Dr. Frederick C. Schneid /...
Giovanni Cavino, I primi dodici imperatori Romani (‘The first twelve Roman emperors’), plaquettes produced at Padua, c....
The Peutinger Table. Reproduction by Conradi Millieri – Ulrich Harsch Bibliotheca Augustana. Wikimedia Commons Today the phrase ‘all roads leads...
A relief at the ancient Persian city of Persepolis (now in modern Iran), including inscriptions in cuneiform,...
Who gets to decide for the dead, such as this Egyptian mummy? AP Photo/Ric Feld Are DNA samples today’s version of the human skeletons...
By Erica Posey (left) and Rachel Levinson-Waldman (right) / 04.04.2018 Posey: Research and Program Associate Levinson-Waldman:...
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View of St Mark’s campanile (left) and Palazzo Ducale (right) from the lagoon, Venice By Dr. Ellen...
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Effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the church of Fontevraud Abbey – By Adam Bishop – Own work, CC...
Mum’s gone to Iceland. Creatista/Shutterstock The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging...
A gold coin from Syracuse depicting the tyrant Agathocles, 310-300 BCE. (Palazzo Blu, Pisa) / Image from Sailko, Wikimedia Commons By Mark...
The fall of the Athenian army in Sicily during the Peloponnesian War in 413 BC as depicted...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
Can the arts be a bridge to other worlds? Daniel Parks, CC BY-NC Is a novella published 130 years...
What role did you play? Composite of Christos Georghiou and sdecoret/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND The current reckoning with data has been a long...
Departure of the Conscripts in 1807, by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1808 / Musée Carnavalet via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Ambrogio...
Lady Philosophy offers Boethius wings so his mind can fly aloft. The French School (15th Century). A...
Ishtar (on right) comes to Sargon, who would later become one of the great kings of Mesopotamia. Edwin...
Gilgamesh explores what it means to be human, and questions the meaning of life and love. Wikimedia Commons...
Night (1736), the fourth painting from William Hogarth’s Four Times of the Day series — Wikimedia Commons The introduction of street...
Depiction of Lucian for the title page of Works of Lucian (1781) – Internet Archive With his Vera Historia, the 2nd...
Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving after a woodcut...