Detail of Colossal Krater from Altamura, about 350 B.C., Greek, made in Apulia, South Italy. Terracotta, 63 in. high...
An 1894 cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper criticizes American newspapers’ elasticity with the truth. Library of Congress By...
Detail, Otto I presenting the Cathedral of Magdeburg, 962–968, Ottonian, from the Cathedral of Magdeburg, probably made in...
The skeleton of the teenage girl, and the remnants of her burial, as discovered by Cambridge University...
What if it wasn’t back to the drawing board every year for a new flu shot? Andrew Kelly/Reuters...
Plantation Høgensborg on St Croix in the former Danish West Indies (1833) / Wikimedia Commons By Miles...
Hermann Von Helmoltz By Dr. M. Norton Wise Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles...
This 19th century Sudanese drawing of an amulet includes spells against the ‘evil eye’. Wellcome Library reference: MS...
Château de Coussac-Bonneval / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Virginia H. Aksan / 01.14.2011 Professor Emeritus of History...
Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, England (photo: Steve Cadman) By Valerie Spanswick / 08.08.2015 Freelance Writer, History of Art and Architecture Southwell...
Column of Trajan, Carrara marble, completed 113 C.E., Rome. Dedicated to Emperor Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus...
Illustration of a small crowd gathered to watch as Martin Luther directs the posting of his 95...
By Dr. Jenna Weissman Joselit / 08.03.2017 Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of...
Image from Rebloggy By Dr. Michael Maurer / 12.03.2010 Professor of Philosophy Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Abstract In the 18th...
A photograph of the War Scroll, found in Qumran Cave 1, photographed by Eric Matson of the...
A new Harvard study suggests that people around the globe can identify lullabies, dancing songs, and healing...
By Dr. Ruchama Johnston-Bloom / 12.21.2016 Assistant Director of Academic Affairs CAPA The Global Education Network Around...
Landscape Gardens at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, UK | View of Palladian Bridge, Gothic Temple / By UKGardenPhotos, Flickr,...
Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster...
Were U.S. diplomats at the embassy in Cuba stricken by a mass delusion? AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa Sociologists know...
“Des waerelds doen en doolen, is maar een mallemoolen,” engraving from Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, 1720 /...
Map with present-day nations By Dr. Jennifer Awes-Freeman / 08.08.2015 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Religious Studies...
Basilica of Santa Sabina, 422-432, Rome By Dr. Allen Farber / 08.08.2015 Professor of Art History State...
Fossilized teeth from a modern human who lived in Israel close to 200,000 years ago. Israel Hershkovitz, Tel...
James Crichton-Browne, A woman with pursed lips, West Riding Lunatic Asylum, c. 1869 – Wellcome Library Stassa Edwards explores...
Image Credit: Vanity Fair No one can showcase our grim American world, tweet by outrageous tweet, in...
Röttgen Pietà , c. 1300-25, painted wood, 34 1/2″ high (Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn) By Dr. Nancy Ross / 12.19.2016 Assistant...
Apa Abraham, c. 590-600, watercolor on panel, Egyptian (Bode Museum, Berlin) By Dr. Davor Džalto / 08.08.2015...
During Wintersession, students learn to make and use the technology that revolutionized human life. The atlatl, or...
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos (or possibly Battle of Gaugamela), floor...