A fine pectoral of a high official made of gilded wood, to imitate a real gold pectoral. It is in the form of a shrine topped by the cornice. The pectoral is ornamented with three inlaid amulets: the Djed pillar, symbol of stability and...

Indigenous artisan, Miguel Andrango, is described as the "master of the loom." Miguel, and others like him in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador create traditional weavings with the dying method of what is called a backstrap loom....

Indigenous artisan, Miguel Andrango, is described as the "master of the loom." Miguel, and others like him in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador create traditional weavings with the dying method of what is called a backstrap loom....

What lengths would you go to? Scientists endure danger and hardship to reach a cave full of bones that may harbor clues to early man.

Three maps reflecting French exploration along rivers in North America and three French explorers' accounts of the astonishing hardships they endured and the possibilities for trade with natives they opened.

Ancilia carried by Salii. The sacred shield carried by the Salii, and made of bronze. The original ancile was found, according to tradition, in the palace of Numa; and, as no numan hand has brought it there, it was concluded that it had...

The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena, built in the 5th century BC on the Athenian Acropolis. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development...

This celebrated philosopher was born inthe year 468 B.C., in the immediate neighborhood of Athens. His father, Sophroniscus, was a sculptor, and Socrates was brought up to, and for some time practiced the same profession. He was married...