The United States solidified its place as an industrial and agricultural power in the late nineteenth century....
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He is widely held as one of the greatest (and most controversial) late Roman/Byzantine emperors in history....
Humans have fought in sport hand-to-hand combat since the dawn of human history, the earliest evidence dating...
How artists and scientists around the world once made sense of the night sky. While we all...
It was perhaps inevitable that the distinction between original and copy became blurred in the Renaissance art...
Ideas were transmitted across Europe as scholars published their own works, commentaries on ancient texts, and criticism...
Texts and images produced throughout the medieval world reveal that harp music could elicit powerful responses. Infernal...
The culture of antiquity played an important role in the literary and artistic endeavors of the Middle...
The Golden Legend often blends traditional stories about the saints with historical facts, as seen in the...
Historical inspirations came before, but the word Halloween or Hallowe’en dates to about 1745. Introduction Halloween or...
Ancient Celts divided the year into two halve – the lighter half and the darker half, and...
The prerequisites for the emergence of a public sphere were increasing levels of literacy which was spurred...
Exploring scientific work and thought in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, India, and China. Introduction The...
This legacy survived the demise of the empire itself and went on to shape other civilizations, a...
Greek civilization had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire and many others that followed through today....
The needs of the times have always influenced office space – whether for the colonial empire or...
We’re ready to be done with COVID-19, it’s not going anywhere soon. Once a pathogen emerges, it’s...
A little critter takes a big journey through one of the Mediterranean’s most important historical sites. Introduction...
The earliest large churches date from Late Antiquity. Different styles of architecture developed and their fashion spread....
In recent decades, the site of Babylon has suffered considerable damage from problematic reconstructions of ancient buildings....
Despite the scientific rigor of archaeology today, archaeological exploration is still an art and an adventure of...
Greek myths were initially propagated in an oral-poetic tradition by Minoan and Mycenaean singers starting in the...
Interacting with many cultures and settling in many regions, the Norse were more cosmopolitan than they receive...
By claiming monarchs answered only to God, divine-right theory turned political obedience into religious duty until revolution...
Looking at legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players and symbols interacting with society. Introduction Legal...
From ancient world to the crusades of the medieval period to today, people have sought ways to...
The resulting texture of the metropolis has a diversity of buildings unlike any other. In 1942, at...
He continued to expand the Harleian Library with thousands of manuscripts. One of the many gems of...
The very concept of “woman” changed in a number of ways during the Middle Ages. Introduction Women...
In 264 BCE, Volsinii became one of the last Etruscan cities to fall in the interminable wars...