Pallisades View

View of the Pallisades from the Medieval Cloisters at the New York Metropolitan Museum, where over 200 million years ago the supercontinent Pangea ripped apart.

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VAMPA Museum, Doylestown, PA

Live Reporting, Long 19th- 20th centuries / May 31, 2024 / folklore, folklore/mythology, mythology, religion, U.S. history

Today my daughter and I got to visit VAMPA, a paranormal museum in Doylestown PA! The very recently constructed museum was a sensory adventure. Starting…

The Argument of Diogenes the Cynic

Ancient History / December 10, 2024 / ancient greece, animals, art, social history

Throughout history, we humans have wanted to feel special, and often this has meant felling specialer than others. The Ancient Greek philosophers engaged in lively…

severed bones attributed to deliberate amputations

Amputations in the Eastern Zhao Dynasty

Africa, Asia and South Asia, Ancient History, History of Science / June 2, 2024 / anthropology, archaeology, medicine, political history, science

Paleo-anthropologists have recently analyzed the skeletons of two humans dating over 2,300 years ago from Ancient China which suggest that deliberate amputation of the limbs…

Magical Superpowers of Yogis

Africa, Asia and South Asia, Ancient History, Early Modern / November 13, 2024 / Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, History of Magic, literature, religion

Hey, anyone down for some yoga? For me, it depends on the context.This illustration is from an early 17th-century manuscript and illustrates an _asana_, or…

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