The Ancient East Asian Maps Collection at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology demonstrates the power held and discursive work done by mapmakers.

The world’s largest archaeological museum is poised to open on the Giza Plateau, building on two centuries of museum planning and development.

In the era of Louis XV, it was fashionable to drench oneself in “animal scents.”

Fratricide among rival princes was legal and widely practiced until 1603, so confinement to the palace was actually an improvement.

Stories emerged in the centuries after Alexander the Great’s death. They revolved around Alexander's failures, not his victories. The portrait that emerges is strangely poignant.

Even at more open-minded times, gays and gay culture is always seen as a frivolous—a decorative, added bonus of civilization.

In Genesis 38, Tamar, disguised as a prostitute, tricks her father-in-law into having sex with her. I don’t recall this making the Sunday school curriculum.