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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The Liver of Piacenza and Haruspicy

Ancient History / December 6, 2024 / art, History of Magic, literature, religion, Rome

The odd-shaped object you are looking at is none other than the Liver of Piacenza. This slightly three-dimensional object d’arte was fashioned by Etruscans living…

Buddhist Stele with the Thousand Buddhas Motif

Africa, Asia and South Asia, Ancient History, Live Reporting / October 24, 2023 / art, buddhism, religion

Buddhist stele with the Thousand Buddhas motif, from the Northern Wei Dynasty, about 521 CE. Notice the Chinese-drapped sleeves of the historical Buddah in the…

Palomas

Live Reporting, Long 19th- 20th centuries / November 14, 2023 / military history, U.S. history

The Mexican flag flies over the city of Palomas, just over the border from the city of Columbus, New Mexico. Today Palomas is a town…

Celtic God Sucellus

Ancient History / December 5, 2024 / art, Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, folklore/mythology, religion

One of the frustrations of studying the distant past is knowing that the lenses of earlier times are ultimately inaccessible. We can take the religion…

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