Symbols in a largely illiterate society serve the vital purpose of relaying the most important values of...
History
The ups and downs of a big-time writer. In a life that spanned nearly six decades, Truman...
“Did the public have a voice in the development of a theocratic city?” As University of Tennessee...
The holistic nature of cultural history approach makes us consider all factors that may have contributed to...
In this period, there was no tradition of scientific medicine, and observations went hand in hand with...
The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day....
“Do you intend to reconstitute the Roman Empire?” It was a simple question, but Il Duce did...
Beatus was an early medieval monk who set down to illustrate a collection of writings he had...
Translators of the Bible have rarely understood the need or made the effort to convey the literary...
In short, the new fragment reveals a vision of humanity as a process of maturation that unfolds...
Many of the protected open spaces that we have today have been inherited from one or more...
It has fallen on textile conservators to keep historic textiles preserved, and a surprising amount of science...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company’s curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat...
Fay Chong and Andrew Chinn were Asian American artists who made major contributions to the two most...
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming...
The United States and European powers had grown increasingly dissatisfied with treaties following the First Opium War....
Western powers tried to gain unfettered access to Chinese products and markets for European and U.S. trade....
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...
The Silk Road provided a conduit not only for silk, but also offered a very important path...
Looking for a way to solve a problem, Tim Berners-Lee launched a revolution. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is...
On October 29, 1969, an experiment at UCLA sparked a communication revolution, the implications of which are...
The record is unique in European history and, packed full of statistics and snippets which reveal details...
Heraldry began on the mid-12th century CE battlefield as an easy means to identify medieval royalty and...
Bahrain has a unique, indigenous middle class, which contributes to the tendency of that nation being more...
The great commercial and trading connections between Mesopotamia and Dilmun were strong and profound. Introduction Dilmun, or Telmun,[2]...
Messianic Jews consider themselves Jewish Christians. When Loren Jacobs, member of the Shma Yisrael Congregation, offered a...
The Sykes-Picot Agreement created the modern Middle East. It represents one of the first installments in a...
Hasidism was called into existence by the charismatic figure Israel ben Eliezer (ca. 1700–1760), who was active...
These networks formed as a result of the dispersal of Jewish society over great distances starting in...
The Wadi Suq culture defines human settlement in the United Arab Emirates and Oman in the period...