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By Dr. Katherine A. East Professor of Classics Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Newscastle University International Journal of...
By Dr. Paul Brians Emeritus Professor of English Washington State University Why did the ice age end?...
 By Dr. Stephen Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris Zucker – Dean of Art and History, Khan...
Medieval Monastic Complex By Max Adams / 11.29.2016 Dark Ages: What Dark Ages? It is not a...
The newly discovered 1st century AD Roman inscription in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv provides invaluable information about ancient Philipopolis...
Urban Rigger, a housing and architect firm in Denmark, has come up with an eco-friendly way to...
The newly discovered Ancient Roman bath house in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv dates to ca. 2nd century AD. Photo:...
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison gather for a concert, date unknown / insidecdcr.ca.gov On the centenary...
A reconstruction of the gate of the Roman fort at Lunt (Coventry, UK) By Mark Cartwright /...
Drawing of Leibniz’s calculating machine, featured as a folding plate in Miscellanea Berolensia ad incrementum scientiarum (1710),...
When driving at night, there’s nothing quite as annoying as being blinded by the full-beam headlights of...
Greene as pictured in the frontispiece to John Dickenson’s Greene in Conceipt (1598) / Wikimedia Commons Known...
He is best remembered for the magnificent portraits he produced as the court painter of Henry VIII;...
Still from Derek Jarman’s Blue. Photo: Liam Daniel © 1993 Basilisk Communications Ltd. By Jennelyn Tumalad /...
Frankenstein sketch 3 by Dumaker By Dr. Leo Braudy / 10.28.2016 Leo S. Bing chair in English...
The newly discovered late 4th century mosaic floor in the Great Basilica in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv features a...
Photo By: Phil Roeder / Creative Commons Introduction Is government to be feared or loved? Thomas Hobbes...
Colour version of Abraham Ortelius’ Typus Orbis Terrarum, a map inserted into the first edition of Richard...
Constantine the Great presents the city (Constantinople) and Justinian the Great presents Hagia Sophia to the Virgin,...
Shutterstock By Dr. Paul Freedman / 10.20.2016 Chester D. Tripp Professor of History Yale University In the...
The Rape of Helen by Tintoretto (1578–1579, Museo del Prado, Madrid); Helen languishes in the corner of...
By Dana Milbank / 10.16.2016 Washington Post Columnist Last week, I took a break from reporting on...
Hôtel de Ville in Vannes (Photo copyright of The Freelance History Writer) By Susan Abernethy / 09.23.2016...
Detail from one of Clarke’s illustrations for Faust by Goethe (1925), his own likeness used for the...
The Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas by Théodore … Cliché Musées Nationaux, Paris / Creative...
The alleged Apollo head sculpture is dated back to the 6th century BC. Photo: National Museum of...
The newly discovered Ancient Roman floor mosaic covers an area of 60 square meters. Photo: TV grab...
The fragmented remains of the Antikythera mechanism. Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis By Dr. Mike Edmunds / 07.20.2016 Emeritus Professor...
Beards: powering tech startups since 813 AD / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Zena Kamash / 02.15.2016 Lecturer...