Medieval Persian manuscript depicting Muhammad leading Abraham, Moses and Jesus in prayer / From The Middle Ages. An...
Female “human computers” perform calculations at Langley Research Center, 1955; a day in the office at Velocity...
View of the Parthenon from the Propylaea, 1805, Simone Pomardi. Sepia, Sepia, 21 5/8 x 29 1/8...
Orphic Prayer Sheet, 350–300 B.C., Greek. Gold, 1 7/16 x 7/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum,...
William Harvey dissecting the body of Thomas Parr. Oil painting, ca. 1900. / Wellcome Images (Wellcome Trust)...
Untitled (Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Vexed Man, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA), 2008, Ken Gonzales-Day. Chromogenic...
George Washington reviews the troops near Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western...
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882) / Pilgrim Hall Museum via Wikimedia Commons By Tom Feiling / 03.25.2018...
In 2016, a coalition of media, tech, and community organizations launched the Equitable Internet Initiative, a project...
By Erin Branham / 10.07.2012 Education Specialist for Family Programs Getty Villa I’m a fan of religion. That sounds glib,...
The archaeological site at Knossos, with restored rooms in the background, Crete (photo: Jebulon, public domain) By Dr....
Yakcheonsa Buddhist Temple, Jeju Island, South Korea / Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.25.2018...
Figure 3.1 Map of Russia / CIA World Factbook Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief...
The Genius of Lithography, 1819, Nicolas Henri Jacob (French, 1781–1871), lithographer. Lithograph, 19.2 x 16.4 cm (sheet...
Paleographers at work: Participants in the Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography at the Getty Research Institute...
Through this remarkable document, one of the world’s great rulers speaks across 2,500 years. By Annelisa Stephan...
The Cyrus Cylinder, Achaemenid, after 539 B.C. Terracotta, 22.9 x 10 cm. The British Museum The need-to-knows about...
ひろしま/hiroshima #9 (Ogawa Ritsu), 2007, Ishiuchi Miyako. Chromogenic print. © Ishiuchi Miyako 70 years after the bombing...
By Dr. Jenna Tonn / 03.15.2018 Visiting Assistant Professor in Science and Technology Studies Boston College The Museum...
A photograph of Baden-Powell in his miltary get up, probably taken some time shortly after 1900 when...
Portrait of Dr Samuel Latham Mitchill, artist unknown — Wikimedia Commons One of the early Republic’s great polymaths,...
Gold Chain and Amulet (detail of amulet), A.D. 600s, Byzantine, made in Lesbos, Greece. Gold. Image courtesy...
Plaque with the Life of Achilles (one of three), about A.D. 300–350, made in Constantinople or Thessaloniki;...
A Mallard Duck hen calls vigorously as she leads her ducklings who have already formed an attachment...
James Vaughan/Flickr By Dr. John S. Allen / 04.25.2016 Neuroanthropologist and Research Scientist University of Southern California...
Postmen of the Wilderness by Arthur Heming, first published in his Drama of the Forests (1921) — Internet Archive Abigail Walthausen...
Photograph of a Sinhalese woman by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1875 – Flickr, Creative Commons Leaving her close-knit artistic...
Baking Bread (detail) in a psalter by an unknown illuminator, Belgium, mid-1200s. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.24.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Early Indus Valley Civilizations 1.1...
By Dr. Bryan W. Roberts Associate Professor of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method London School of Economics &...