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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Tombs and Warnings

Ancient History / June 21, 2024 / Ancient Egypt, anthropology, archaeology, disease, Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, folklore

Here’s an Ancient Egyptian tomb warning for you, just in case you were thinking of violating the resting place of the dead any time soon!…

Neolithic Artists

Ancient History, Fabulous Females / September 26, 2023 / anthropology, art, pre-history, women's history

So here’s a provocative set of evidence from our pre-historic past: hand stencils. Among other questions, they raise a debate about whether the first artists…

Ancient Rome and Sexual Restraint

Ancient History / September 23, 2024 / art, history of sex, literature, Rome, women's history

The Ancient Romans were not shy about generating erotic sex scenes in their art and literature. In the Late Empire of the second and third…

Giant Ground Sloth

Ancient History, Big History / October 10, 2023 / animals, pre-history

Here’s a giant ground sloth skeleton, unearthed from the modern state of Missouri. Sloths like this would have stood up to ten feet tall, which…

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