Detail from a 1642 engraving by Hendrik Hondius, based on Peter Breughel’s 1564 drawing depicting sufferers of...
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte III Rarely in history has a country so blindly, maliciously and relentlessly turned against...
Hagia Sophia / Photo by Arild Vågen, Wikimedia Commons It wasn’t Europe that gave us our idea of...
White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece The Ottoman Empire captured Thessaloniki in 1430 and ruled it until 1912. ...
How have societies solved this basic problem? Why have they adopted certain solutions, and then abandoned them...
Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, c. 1446-51, Florence (Italy) By Christine Zappella / 08.09.2015 PhD Student in...
By Dr. Robert Davis / 02.15.2018 Professor Emeritus of History The Ohio State University In the early...
By Dr. Bruce Gordon / 10.27.2017 Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History Yale Divinity School Yale University...
William Tyndale / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey / 10.14.2017 Distinguished Professor of Literature and...
Polychrome relief of Kagemni in his own mastaba, Saqqara, Egypt. Kagemni was a vizier of pharaohs Djedkare Isesi...
Pitcher (Oinochoe) in the Form of the Head of an African, about 510 B.C., attributed to Class...
Location of the sunken island of Cyanida / Kianida on Ptolemy’s 9th European Map (Nona Europae Tabula)...
By Dr. Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) Former Professor of Linguistics Collège de France Gift and Exchange Abstract Greek has five words...
Created for medieval royalty, the Bible Moralisée joined scripture with thousands of lavish images, using biblical interpretation...
Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew (detail), Second Initial Page, f.29, early 8th century (British Library) By Louisa Woodville...
The first civilizations formed in river valleys, and were characterized by a caste system and a strong...
View of the Piazza del Campo, Siena By Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland / 12.30.2015 Art Historian...
Portrait of Alexios III Komnenos in The Romance of Alexander the Great, 1300s, made in Trebizond, Turkey. Tempera, gold,...
Byzantium in a bottle (or two) Sniffing out the scents of medieval Constantinople. By Saskia Wilson-Brown / 07.03.2014...
Rewriting history from the air. William S Hanson Scrutinizing archives of aerial photography, we have been able to...
Illustration from Moonblight (1889) – Internet Archive An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of...
We need to move beyond assumptions that religion is simply about dogmatism. Daniel Montemayor We need to move...
Detail from a version of Sebastian Münster’s sea monster chart (1544 and after), composed from copies of...
The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west / Wikimedia Commons The most...
The Great Mosque of Córdoba turned church after the Reconquista / Photo by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons Was it a...
What does a 21st century Viking look like? Anthony Devlin/PA The Vikings have an enduring appeal in the...
This war scene shown in a temple frieze in the Kailashanatha Temple depicts the use of chariots and elephants in warfare during the...
The Vandals were buried beneath the awful weight of metaphor. Dr Case It might seem a stretch to...
Japanese soldiers of the Sino-Japanese War. Wikimedia Commons As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: “bushido”....
Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy The myth of a monstrous giant squid prowling the oceans has persisted for centuries but scientists have been...