Without formal training or funding, they have braved rugged terrain, deciphered ancient scripts and uncovered hidden ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

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Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

It’s not enough to share contemporary interests; highlighting historical links before colonialism changed the way the modern ...

I get chills recalling the sheer power of art that I felt in this room at the National Portrait Gallery, as if the genius loci of Washington, D.C. was standing next to me like a ghost.

An innovative financing system could hold the key to returning Indigenous people to Country to sustainably farm the land that ...

The bequest was the third of thirteen listed in his will of 7 May 1975, after another, larger one to the Catholic Missions ...

Village Books and Paper Dreams, 1200 11th St Bellingham, WA 98225 Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in this bonus Nature of Writing event with Jon Waterman! Into the Thaw alternates ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

In this video, I’ll explore three mysterious maps that defy conventional history and challenge what we know about the ancient world. From the famous Piri Reis map to other lesser-known but equally ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...