The Chi-rho Page

The Chi-rho page beginning the Gospel of Matthew in the Lindisfarne Gospels from the 8th century.

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Ancient Chinese Kite Flying

Kite flying was first recorded in Ancient China. Among the earliest accounts includes a story of the famed general Han Xin (d. 196 BCE), one…

Comet of Bethlehem

Ancient History, History of Science / October 25, 2023 / Christian history, Eurasia/Middle Eastern history

Look above the manager roof in this scene from Italian Renaissance master Giotto di Bondone’s _Adoration of the Magi_. The “star” that Giotto painted had…

The Cairo Toe

Ancient History, History of Science / November 15, 2023 / medicine

Behold the Cairo Toe, the earliest surviving prosthesis ever made. About 3,000 years ago in an Ancient Egyptian chamber lying west of Luxor, Egypt, a…

The Complexity of the “Venus Mosaic”

Ancient History / September 19, 2024 / archaeology, art, Rome, social history

My most favorite ghost stories these days come from historian Robin Fleming’s new book, _The Material Fall of Roman Britain_. Nothing captures the immediacy of…

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