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Early Islamic Trade Africa, Asia and South Asia, Ancient History, Byzantine History / September 25, 2023 / Central and Late Middle Ages, Islamic history, trade This shipwreck puts a new spin on how historians think about the earliest century of Islam. The usual story is that the decades after Muhammad’s…
Eve and Lilith Wooden Base Ancient History, Early Modern, Fabulous Females, Live Reporting / October 11, 2023 / art, Christian history, mythology, religion This wooden base for a small statue features Eve and Lilith, two primal females in Christian mythology. These characters also underlined negative assumptions about women’s…
Chinese Demon-Hunter Zhong Kui Africa, Asia and South Asia, Ancient History, Early Modern / November 26, 2024 / art, Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, folklore/mythology, literature, social history This is an ink portrait of the famed Chinese demon-hunter Zhong Kui. It was done by the Shunzhi Emperor Fulin in the mid 17th-century, and…
Obscenity of Ancient Roman Genitals Ancient History / December 6, 2024 / art, history of sex, literature, Rome, social history The exquisite sculpture in the first image you see is the “Lely Venus,” a second-century Roman copy of a Hellenistic original. The second photo is…
