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Coninbriga is an archaeological site in Portugal mostly known for its impressive Roman ruins. Plan of the site from Google Earth. It is an a...

In one of the  saddest videos of the war , a lone Russian soldier is sent on a solo march across a kilometer of open, treeless, snow-covered...

Chicago reporter Dan Mihalopoulos on Twitter/X: We’ve covered lots of losing teams on the back page of the paper. But none with a record as...

Major storm along thousand-mile front in North America yesterday. It was weird here because a lot of our precipitation fell as sleet despite...

From “The Creeping Man”: “You will excuse a certain abstraction of mind, my dear Watson,” said he. “Some curious facts have been submitted ...

Mexican archaeologists announce the discovery of a Zapotec tomb dating to around 600 AD. Wonderful sculpture over the entrance. The owl was...

Fascinating old video clip. Question: For those of us who reject Marx, can you offer any positive philosophy to help us toward a more hopefu...

The Rediscovery of America (2023) is a bold attempt to retell American history with a focus on Indians: what they did, what they suffered, ...

Indian performers at the St. Louis World's Fair Ned Blackhawk: Within most reservation communities, opportunities for travel, employment...

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on Twitter/X :  Perhaps the fastest decline in fertility ever recorded has taken place in Guatemala’s poorest, le...

Trump at Davos , on housing affordability: Every time you make it more affordable for somebody to own a house cheaply, you are actually hurt...

Byzantine Mosaic Floor, Turkey, c. 500 AD Scott Siskind on Scott Adams and "Dilbert," long but extremely interesting. Still uploa...

Diarmaid-MacCulloch  on Henry VIII: Trouble about that is that a man like Henry VIII is a narcissist. I think we may have seen some in moder...

The famous Scythian "Boars Head Sword and Scabbard", from a burial mount (kurgan) near the village of Velika Bilozerka, Ukaine. It...

It is practically impossible to describe Niels Bohr to a person who has never worked with him. Probably his most characteristic property was...

St. Lawrence by Tilman Riemenschneider, c. 1505 St. Catherine with a kneeling donor, Melle, France, 1400s. Mourner from the tomb of Philip t...

Like just about everyone else who seriously considered the various statements made about the new University of Austin, I worried that its c...

I'm still working my way through Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America , learning bits and pieces about Native American history...

Noah Smith has a pretty good essay this week on a question he and I both wonder about: why do Americans feel that the economy is bad when a...

Over the past two days YouTube has three times offered me an ad that begins, "As a school custodian, you understand. . . " Do they...

Lots of wonders in the online collection of the Cleveland Museum, not so many big or spectular objects but just the kind of weirdness I enjo...