Today, Greece’s landscapes are universally known; the immaculate white houses with their blue roofs are even one of the main ...

Bats are unique animals. As the only mammal capable of flight, they also have the particularity of sleeping upside down.

Opposing Egypt and Syria against Israel, the Yom Kippur War is remembered for its swiftness—it lasted only 18 days. It is ...

Today, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have (almost) all vanished, leaving behind only stories and fragments of their ...

Nuclear cultural impacts can be analyzed through the nuclear allegory of Godzilla, Cold War literature, the dystopia of the ...

Titian was an immensely successful artist during his lifetime, painting for Italian and international princes and kings. His ...

Like the Olympic Games, the Paralympic Games are held every four years. But when and how were these games—bringing together ...

Why are these muscular, athletic men—with angelic faces and broad chests—depicted with a phallus that seems ...

The Egyptian Empire was one of the most powerful in the world in its day, thanks in no small part to a host of inventions.

Known for painting the muse of a famous yogurt brand, Vermeer (1632-1675) is an essential Dutch artist of the Dutch Golden ...

An essential figure of Viennese Symbolist painting, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is renowned for his portraits and feminine ...