The Roman writer Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) was the first to describe cloves in the West....
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We understand these letters to be circumstantial. They were not written as systematic theology or as treatises...
Pliny’s letter to Trajan is significant as one of the earliest descriptions of the Christian movement from...
Understanding more fully how early modern people thought about cancer is significant for several reasons. Abstract This...
One citation at a time, a professor and her students are crafting a more complete picture of...
Information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) have become an integral part of society, economics, politics, and...
Pandora opened a jar left in her care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which...
The word epistemology is derived from the ancient Greek epistēmē, meaning “knowledge”, and the suffix -logia, meaning...
Nowadays you can find anything on YouTube. There’s practically no niche that wouldn’t be covered on this...
How MAGA functions as white political theology both within the White House and amongst Trump’s base. NOTE:...
Traditional Chinese medicine shows that there’s more to healing than using the right chemical. Introduction Poisons today...
Ukrainian authorities are now unable to monitor archaeological work at ancient Tauric Chersonesos by the Black Sea....
Religious artifacts are items that are regarded as having religious significance. They are usually associated with a...
Much of the ancient art known in the renaissance was not excavated but already part of the...
The scientific method developed over centuries from philosophical debate to systematic inquiry. Today’s method — built on...
A religious scholar explains the history of the High Holy Days and why they might offer consolation...
The Islamic New Year marks the first day of Muharram, a sacred month of prayer and annual...
Bubonic plague killed more than 25 million people, or at least one third, of Europe’s population during...
The 2,000-line poem by Scottish physician John Armstrong was written during a time of pandemic, war, and...
Knowing the historical contributions of Islam and its influence on other faiths can help counter many assumptions...
Exploring James Bell Pettigrew’s Design in Nature (1908), a provocative and forgotten exploration of the world’s archetypal whorl. This...
The ability of Ancient Rome to inspire was exploited by Mussolini throughout his reconstruction of Rome. By...
Infrastructure before 1700 consisted mainly of roads and canals. This began to change very rapidly. Introduction Infrastructure before...
Social media is largely though not exclusively responsible for undermining belief in truth and objectivity. Aaron J....
Though their reproductive choices were still unacceptably limited, pre-modern Christian women did have some options. Introduction The...
For nearly 2,000 years, the mother of Jesus has been viewed as an exemplar by different Christian...
Exploring Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts. This article, Reading Like...
Discovery of late Stone Age jugs suggest that intentionally fermented beverages existed at least as early as the Neolithic period (c. 10,000 BC).[2]...
Three events set the stage—and would influence agriculture for centuries—in Europe. Introduction Agriculture in the Middle Ages describes...
Original writers of biblical texts believed the end times were happening in THEIR time and were preparing...