A gilded metal plate showing the Greek goddess Cybele, ca. 200 BC, from one of the Greek colonies founded in Afghanistan in the aftermath of Alexander's conquests.
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- Frozen Bubbles
- William Blake, Eve Tempted by the Serpent
- Art of the European Bronze Age
- Mass Human Sacrifice in Peru
- Op Ed Art
- George Will Takes Aim at the Achilles Heel of Envi...
- Romney is Right about Campaign Finance
- Hedge Funds are Terrible Investments
- Las Palmas by Tony Hernandez
- Does Pollution Make Storms Worse?
- Birth Rates Plummet Across Latin America
- The Rebirth of the Anacostia Waterfront
- What is the Purpose of Literary Scholarship?
- Titan's Hydrocrabon Seas
- Christian Libertarianism
- The Book Carving Craze
- The Psychedelic Potter of Maryland's Great Valley
- The World is Surpassing Complex, the Human Mind On...
- Zeno's Advent Calendar
- The Sacred Heart of Ancient Dacia
- The Mattehorn and Riffel Lake
- Hyacinthe Rigaud, Self Portrait, 1698
- Foreground and Background
- Fewer Teenagers Driving, Especially in My House
- Poe's Raven
- Moral Atheism
- How One Teenager Sees Religion
- Radical Conservatives and Conservative Liberals
- America's Remarkable Decline in Crime
- Before the EPA II: Water Pollution
- Real Life Caped Crusaders
- Parking Garages of Miami
- Paige Bradley, "Expansion"
- Sunpended Forest Walkway by Tetsuo Kondo
- Phytoplankton Bloom in the Barents Sea
- Christmas 2011
- Leonardo's Knot
- Loch Torridon, Scotland
- The Strange Paradox of Ownerless Capitalism
- La Magie d’Ayguebonne
- Krampus is Coming to Get Your Children
- Soldiers Want Peace, and Ron Paul
- Joseph Cornell's Boxes
- Longing for a Cause
- Celebrating the End of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Space Balls
- Money is Color Blind
- Happy Sunreturn
- Andrea Mantegna, Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan
- Modern Marriage and the Cult of Personal Responsib...
- The End of Modern Physics
- A Purse as a Symbol of Power
- Republican Congressman Love "Braveheart"
- North Korean Propaganda Posters
- Count Harry Kessler and the Age of Europe
- Viking Boat Burial at Ardnamurchan, Scotland
- Romney Talks Weirdly Tough about North Korea
- North Korea's Horribly Successful Totalitarianism
- Culture vs. Institutions in the Two Koreas
- Cool Toys: the Giant Swimming Air Shark
- More on that Viking Age Cemetery in Poland
- No Planning for Sea Level Rise Here; We Want None ...
- Permafrost Melting
- Before the EPA I: Air Pollution
- The Year in Volcanoes
- RIP Christopher Hitchens
- Matthew Pillsbury: Long Exposure New York
- In the Hall of a 14th-Century Merchant
- The Heart of Teotihuacan
- The Sanctuary of Roquepertuse and the Celtic Cult ...
- Out of Iraq
- Love Amidst Religious War: Elizabeth Dacre's Forbi...
- Ned Vena, Untitled 2010
- 146% of Muscovites Are for Free Elections
- Roma Children in British Schools
- Connections
- When the Pit Bull was the All American Dog
- An Ancient Whale in Slices
- Things I Did Not Know: Nuns and Cancer
- Preventative Medicine Does Not Save Money
- The Cost of Solar Power is Falling Fast
- Style Stops Changing
- Education Reform is Hard
- Today in the Virginia Woods
- Closeness and Productivity
- Nobody Trusts Atheists
- Newt at the Debate, or, Shameless Politics
- Novgorod: the Archaeology of Medieval Russia
- A Curse on You Plotius
- The First Defense Cuts
- Battersea Power Station as a Historic Landmark
- Doctors Want to Die in Peace
- The Multiple Personality Scam
- Lightning at Kaieteur Falls
- The Witches' Cottage of Pendle Hill
- Mosaics at a Church in Petra
- David Frum on Obama's Speech
- Rick Perry's War on Obama's War on Christmas
- The Stonecarvers of Dangcheng
- Maya Archaeology at Blue Creek
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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