A medieval account of Egyptian burial practices and tomb robbers

The Malice of Time: Neglect history at your peril

The Calamities of Others: An ancient historian aims for the big picture

Profitable to Posterity: Who should write history?

Immortal by Default: A brief history of humans and the ginkgo tree

Policing the Necropolis

Working Arrangement

Rate the Room: The early history of rating credit in America

Imagining utopia–and condemning excess–during the Enlightenment

Now Be Still: Dispatching Shakespeare’s Bodies

The Summer Is over Alas Alas

Profile Picture: Stories of diplomatic portraiture

The several deaths of François Vatel

Fiction Is History: A journey through Joseph Conrad’s life at sea

Panic at the Library

The Song of the Summer: A Heian-era epistolary romance

Coming Attraction: Charles Morton wonders where birds come from (1685)

Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation

1916: Ambassador Henry Morgenthau protests the expulsion of Armenians

A Brief History of Frankincense

Forced Perspective: Sir William Jones gets lost in translation

The Ornatrices of Londinium

Flower Power

The last days of William Blake

Humans being confounded by color photography

Seizing the Means of Audio Production

Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed

Enjoy My Flames: On heavy metal’s fascination with Roman emperors

Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turtle shells

Following the oud through the history of Armenian music

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