HATHOR COLUMNS (18TH DYNASTY) [SIC]

In temples and chapels dedicated to Hathor, columns were often crowned with a likeness of the goddess. The columns, used from the New Kingd...

PETER I UNDERCOVER

Peter I ( 1672 – 1725 ), was the tsar who made Russia a Great Power and a military force to be reckoned with, starting the long, painful pr...

CARDINAL RICHELIEU: 1585–1642

The name of Cardinal Richelieu, prime minister of France under Louis XIII, has become synonymous with the figure, ‘the power behind the thro...

TOMBS OF THE NECROPOLIS OF MEMPHIS (SAQQARA CEMETERY-5TH DYNASTY) [SIC]

Architectural reconstructions of offering chapels from three tombs in Saqqara are presented here; the extensive wall decorations have been ...

THE GREAT FLOOD - SONS OF NOAH

Maker unknown; from a Dutch Bible [seventeenth century] Smith Collection, University of Southern Maine This Bible map encompasses a large re...

The Crystal Skulls

Mitchell-Hedges Skull British Crystal Skull Paris Crystal Skull Amethyst Skul l Rose Quartz Crystal Skull Aztec Skull Perhaps it’s because t...

DROMOS OE THE GREAT TEMPLE AT KARNAK

The western approach to the Great Temple of Amun in Thebes is lined with ram-sphinxes. This reconstruction is a view from the entrance of th...

MAP OF THE RUINS OF TELL EL-AMARNA (18TH DYNASTY)

Akhenaten moved his capital to the barren site of Tell el-Amarna, where a city was designed and built. Soon after his death, the town was ab...

Climb Chimborazo and See the World

Alexander von Humboldt, Vegetation zones on Mount Chimborazo (Alexander von Humboldt and A.G. Bonpland, Geographie der Pflanzen in den Trope...

ENTABLATURES & FLORAL FRIEZES (NECROPOLIS OF THEBES-18TH & 20TH DYNASTIES)

Flowers, like the blue lotus or the papyrus, are the main motif in these patterns. These flowers imitate actual wreaths used as decoration o...

Ptolemy world map -Modernised

Ptolemy's Goal T he introduction to Geography states what Ptolemy wanted to accomplish, which includes an explanation of the princip...

ANCIENT GREEK COLONIES IN ITALY

Abraham Ortelius, in Parergon, Antwerp, 1595 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine This map, oriented with east at the top, shows t...

THE DEATH OF JOHN PAUL I PART I

Albino Luciani was elected pope on 26 August 1978, taking the name John Paul, and died just 33 days later after one of the shortest reigns ...

THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE PART II

Theories about the Lost Colony The most obvious explanation is that the Lost Colonists were never found because they were dead. They could...

ANCIENT NORTH AFRICA

Abraham Ortelius, in Parergon, Antwerp, 1595 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine Phoenician colonies on the northern coast of Afr...

THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE PART I

The discovery of "Croatoan" A map of the Roanoke area, by John White Sometime between 1587 and 1590 the population of the first...