The Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco. Credit Shannon McPherron/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Oldest Homo Sapiens discovered in Morocco
A discovery that will change world human history
A scene of "American Reunion"
My 20th High School Reunion
Journey to the Past
The best way of memorizing is to understand
Understanding, the best way to memorize
Neither technique nor skill, but rather developing the ability to use techniques
Dancers dressed up as woodland animals
Berlin: the Cosmopolitan Future
A review of the city’s Carnival of Cultures
Museum of the History of Civilization, Rabat, rendering
Museum of the History of Civilization
The Archaeological Museum of Morocco reopened after one year of restoration
Mexican mural
Cultural Syncretism 
Appropriation or appreciation? Perpetuation or evolution?
Shakespeare's First Folio
The Most Expensive Works of Fiction
Some of the rarest books ever sold
Alone in the drone
The Grand Eugenetic Experiment
The largest pharma monopoly on the globe
Giambattista Vico
About Italian philosophy
An interview with Giorgio A. Pinton on Vico, Garin, Betti
Literally versus Figuratively
Literally ok
A defense
Spiritual voices
Spiritual Voices Amid the Chaos
The difference between an institutional religion and a genuine spirituality
Pinocchio, the quasi-perfect robot
Pinocchio, the quasi-perfect robot
The feeling of being
Gare du Nord - Veduta d'insieme
A new perspective on anatomical theaters
An interview with Chiara Ianeselli
Work by Mariella Busi - Ph Valeria Nonni
Fallings
An unstable equilibrium
Vikings, as hulking, bearded men
Vikings
Why what we think about them is not quite right
Journalism at cinema
Stop Using the Term “Fake News”
Why the term is the end of knowledge and truth
First kiss
Kiss and Tell
Remembering My First Kiss
The Dhikr
Dhikr - Thought of the Supreme
Culture of remembrance. Part Two
Jacques Louis David - The Death of Socrates
The Art of Skepticism
Beliefs, ideas, and morals
The boat Altrove after reaching Polinesia
The elsewhere
A boundless passion for the sea
Joseph Ducreux’s, 1783 - Self-Portrait, Yawning (detail)
In Praise of Boredom
The windless claim of the dream bird of experience
Tana French
The Trespasser
Tana French and her Ireland
The presence of Nothing
Motivation in the presence of Nothing
The only person that can help me
Christmas Ice Skating
Christmas Traditions in Iceland
The most joyous period of the year
The Forest Research Institute at Dehradun
Forest Research Institute at Dehradun
A Destination for Forest Lovers
The criteria of connections between images and concepts
Different kinds of association
The main criteria of mental connections between images and concepts
Eugene Onegin, Duel Scene
The Art of the Duel
A lost world of ritualized rage and reckless rectitude
The future of media?
The disappearance of quality media
Their own fault?
India Seashells Museum
India Seashells Museum
At Mahabalipuram 40,000 seashells under one roof
Association and memory
Association and memory
General considerations on the concept of connection in memory techniques
Be nice
Is it good to be nice?
The blessings and burdens of modern manners
The night of Halloween
The night of Halloween
How do varied cultures celebrate this event?
The correct use of information
Simple cues in complex schemes
Cognitive strategies for information management
The Holocaust History Museum – Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
Ahead of European Day of Jewish Culture
An interview with Jasminka Domas
Is he/she the perfect mate?
Everlasting single life
Will all of us find their mate?
Young students and their families
One Flew Over the Juku’s Nest
Brain Twisting the Japanese Youth
Ramadan night
Ramadan in Tunisia
A big lifetime experience
Culture of remembrance
Dhikr
Culture of remembrance. Part One
A new way of studying
Is rote learning useful or not?
How to improve our way of studying
Sunset over Shinjuku
The Wild Side of Tokyo
Nature in the Cyberpunk Wilderness
The charge of memory
The charge of memory
How to encode, store and retrieve information
Freedom of speech
Modern day sensitivities
The rise of the thin-skinned
The better way to spend our free time
Intellectually entertaining books
Why reading make us free
How do you organize your study?
How to organize your study
Building the foundations of a correct learning
To spank or not to spank?
To spank or not to spank?
Spanking as a Form of Discipline has Biblical Basis
The medieval town of Cortona, Arezzo, Italy
The Cortona-week experiment
The question of transdisciplinarity between science and humanities
The Gospel Book and together in prayer
Love, Faith and Peace
Cardinal Josip Bozanic’s visit to the Parish of the Holy Trinity in Sveta Nedelja
Acupuncture
The arrival of the East
In search of an existential balance
An unforgettable spirit
The wheel of nature
In the memory of unforgettable spirits
El Niño
Welcome to the Orchard
Writing the 3rd Generation Migrant Story
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Pair of gauntlets, Lucio Piccinino, about 1585, Italy. Museum no. M.143 & A-1921. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Renaissance
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, United Kingdom
Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection. Courtesy of Pera Museum
Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection
at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey
Many Voices, One Nation. Courtesy of Smithsonian
Many Voices, One Nation
28 Jun 2017 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Smithsonian in Washington, United States
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith. Courtesy of Smithsonian
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
28 Jun 2017 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Smithsonian in Washington, United States
Expanding City. Courtesy of Museum of London
Expanding City
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Museum of London in London, United Kingdom
War, Plague & Fire. Courtesy of Museum of London
War, Plague & Fire
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Museum of London in London, United Kingdom
Medieval London. Courtesy of Museum of London
Medieval London
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Museum of London in London, United Kingdom
Roman London. Courtesy of Museum of London
Roman London
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Museum of London in London, United Kingdom
London before London. Courtesy of Museum of London
London before London
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Museum of London in London, United Kingdom
Seaton Down Hoard. Courtesy of RAMM
Seaton Down Hoard
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, United Kingdom
Local History. Courtesy of RAMM
Local History
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, United Kingdom
Città di Cinisello. Courtesy of Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea
Città di Cinisello
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea in Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
Liverpool Stanley Hospital at Christmas. Courtesy of Museum of Liverpool
Growing up in the city: in photographs
21 Oct 2015 — 31 Aug 2017 at Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, United Kingdom
Ceremonial mask. Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art
Ceremonial mask
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, United States
Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Moeurs, loix et costumes des sauvages de la Baye d'Hudson, about 1796. Gift of Dr. J. lawrence Hutchison, M2004.117.20 © McCord Museum
Rare Books
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at McCord Museum in Montreal, Canada
Thomas Molson's notebook, 1820-1824. Gift of Miss Mabel Molson, M19113 © McCord Museum
Textual Archives
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at McCord Museum in Montreal, Canada
The Culture of the Peoples of South Siberia, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
The Culture of the Peoples of South Siberia
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Culture of the Caucasus, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
The Culture of the Caucasus
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Culture and Art of Pre-Islamic Central Asia, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
The Culture and Art of Pre-Islamic Central Asia
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Culture and Art of Central Asia, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
The Culture and Art of Central Asia
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Russian Culture and Art, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
Russian Culture and Art
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Armourer’s Art of the Middle East. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
Armourer’s Art of the Middle East
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Celebrating the Year of the Rooster. Courtesy of The Met
Celebrating the Year of the Rooster
25 Jan — 4 Jul 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States
Arms and Armor from the Islamic World. Courtesy of The Met
Arms and Armor from the Islamic World
20 Feb — 31 Jul 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States
Paradise of Exiles. Courtesy of The Met
Paradise of Exiles
13 Mar — 13 Aug 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States
The Musical Performance in the Teatro Argentina in Honor of the Marriage of the Dauphin, 1747, Giovanni Paolo Panini, oil on canvas. Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures. Image © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
Making history one brushstroke at a time
9 May — 30 Jul 2017 at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, United States
Theo Eshetu, The Slave Ship, 2015, video installation. Image © Theo Eshetu, courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary.
The Slave Ship
30 Jun — 12 Aug 2017 at Tiwani Contemporary in London, United Kingdom
Remembering Antiquity. Courtesy of J. Paul Getty
Remembering Antiquity
24 Jan — 28 May 2017 at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, United States
Ancient Mexico, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Museo Amparo
Ancient Mexico
1 Jan 2016 — 31 Dec 2017 at the Museo Amparo in Puebla City, Mexico
Vislumbres de la bóveda, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Museo Amparo
Vislumbres de la bóveda
9 Mar — 1 May 2017 at the Museo Amparo in Puebla City, Mexico
Samovar and Basin. Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum
Samovar and Basin
6 Mar — 31 Dec 2017 at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Divine Ammunition. Courtesy of Bellevue Arts Museum
Divine Ammunition
16 Dec 2016 — 7 May 2017 at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, United States
Design by the Book, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Design by the Book
24 Mar — 30 Jul 2017 at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York, United States
New York Crystal Palace 1853, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Bard Graduate Center Gallery
New York Crystal Palace 1853
24 Mar — 30 Jul 2017 at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York, United States
Osman Hamdi Bey. Courtesy of Pera Museum
Osman Hamdi Bey
Permanent Exhibition at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey
Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe. Courtesy of Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe
9 Dec 2011 — 1 Jan 2020 at Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin, Germany
Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Pergamonmuseum
Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, Germany
Art of Islamic Cultures, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Pergamonmuseum
Art of Islamic Cultures
1 Jan 2000 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, Germany
Trans-cultural Relations, Global Biographies – Islamic Art?. Courtesy of Pergamonmuseum
Trans-cultural Relations, Global Biographies
29 Apr 2016 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, Germany
Ancient Egypt. Courtesy of Neues Museum
Ancient Egypt
17 Oct 2009 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Courtesy of Neues Museum
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
29 Jun 2014 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany
The Barbarian Treasure of Neupotz. Courtesy of Neues Museum
The Barbarian Treasure of Neupotz
20 Dec 2016 — 1 Jan 2020 at the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany
Chen Hongshou (1599–1652) , Self-image , Ca. 1633, Album of eleven paintings; ink and color on silk, 8 3/4 x 8 9/16 in. (22.2 x 21.7 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wan-go H. C. Weng, 1999 999.521a-k
Stories in Chinese Painting
29 Oct 2016 — 6 Aug 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States
Chariot Model (Modern Replica after Qin Originals), Qin dynasty (221–206 B.C.). Bronze with pigments, H. 59 in. (150 cm). Photo: Courtesy Qin Shihuangdi Mausoleum Site Museum, Lintong
Age of Empires
3 Apr — 16 Jul 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States
Book Covers Of The Wiener Werkstätte. Courtesy of Mak
Book Covers Of The Wiener Werkstätte
8 Mar — 18 Jun 2017 at MAK in Vienna, Austria
Eden, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth Zürich
Eden
1 Apr — 20 May 2017 at Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland
Unknown Artist, Statuette of a Woman, ca. 1390. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum
A Woman's Afterlife
15 Dec 2016 — 1 Dec 2017 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, United States
Bologna Children’s Book Fair fair view
Bologna Children’s Book Fair
3 — 6 Apr 2017 at BolognaFiere in Bologna, Italy
Club made from yew wood depicting Thunderbird with inlaid operculum shells and sea otter teeth, collection by Captain Cook on his third voyage 1776-1780 in Nootka Sound, British Columbia Canada. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Where the Thunderbird Lives
23 Feb — 27 Sep 2017 at the British Museum in London, United Kingdom
Buonaparte Stuffenjahre, 19th Century, Print © The Bowes Museum
The Allure of Napoleon
28 Jan — 19 Mar 2017 at The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, United Kingdom
Mona Golabek. Courtesy of the artist and Pure Land Series
Mona Golabek
10 Feb 2017 at the China Exchange UK in London, United Kingdom
From Self Portraits © Joy Gregory courtesy Impressions Gallery
Joy Gregory
11 Feb — 7 May 2017 at The Exchange in Penzance, United Kingdom
Katia Kameli, L'Oeil se noie, 2016, backlit film print …, edition of 5. Courtesy of Tiwani Contemporary
Field Work
12 Jan — 25 Feb 2017 at Tiwani Contemporary in London, United Kingdom
Badlands Shop Front- Gary, Indiana-1980’s-1990’s, Photograph courtesy of Eric Smolinski
Indiana Tattoo: History and Legacy
13 Jan — 3 Feb 2017 at Grunwald Gallery in Bloomington, United States
Small Wonders, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Art Gallery of Ontario
Small Wonders
5 Nov 2016 — 22 Jan 2017 at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada
Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Simone Leigh
17 Sep 2016 — 18 Jan 2017 at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, United States
Awa Tsireh, Bird; San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, ca. 1930. Courtesy of Newark Museum
Native Artists of North America
Long-term Installation at the Newark Museum in Newark, United States
Heavy Metal, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Museo Archeologico dell’Alto Adige
Heavy Metal
2 Feb 2016 — 14 Jan 2018 at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy
Raro incunabolo figurato del 1497 contenente i Trionfi e il Canzoniere di Francesco Petrarca (Bado e Mart Antiquariato Librario)
Mostra Libri antichi e di pregio
11 — 13 Mar 2016 presso Salone dei Tessuti di Milano, Italia
Tryfan I, Oil on Board, 2015, 14 X 19 cm.
Daniel Crawshaw
7 — 30 Jan 2016 at Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff, United Kingdom
Box Brooch © The Swedish History Museum
Vikings
3 Dec 2015 — 17 Apr 2016 at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Canada
Garuda, Gilded and lacquered wood, Tibet, 18th century (c) The Trustees of the British Museum
Tibet’s Secret Temple
19 Nov 2015 — 28 Feb 2016 at Wellcome Collection in London, United Kingdom
India's Gateway - Agricultural workers on bike © Tim Smith
India’s Gateway
17 Oct 2015 — 21 Feb 2016 at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery in Leicester, United Kingdom
Fela Kuti photographed by Bernard Matussière, reproduced by kind permission of Knitting Factory Records for West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
16 Oct 2015 — 16 Feb 2016 at The British Library in London, United Kingdom
Triumph of the Grassroots
14 Oct — 12 Dec 2015 at Brunei Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Group of Animal Mummies, Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester © Alan Seabright
Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed
8 Oct 2015 — 17 Apr 2016 at Manchester Museum in Manchester, United Kingdom
Ivory pyxis box depicting Daniel with arms raised in prayer is flanked by two lions, Egypt or Syria, 5th or early 6th century AD, © The Trustees of the British Museum
Egypt: faith after the pharaohs
29 Oct 2015 — 7 Feb 2016 at the British Museum in London, United Kingdom
OSwaldo Vigas. Composición IV. 1943- Oil on cardboard. 32 x 32 cm
Oswaldo Vigas 1943-2013
16 Jul — 23 Aug 2015 at Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá in Bogotá, Colombia
Gundestrup Cauldron (detail), Silver, Gundestrup, northern Denmark, 100 BC–AD 1 © The National Museum of Denmark
Celts: art and identity
24 Sep 2015 — 31 Jan 2016 at the British Museum in London, United Kingdom
All images: Lyre, kissar, from northern Sudan, Mid to late 19th century © The Trustees of the British Museum
The Sudanese lyre
18 Jun — 16 Aug 2015 at the British Museum in London, United Kingdom
Ronghui Chen, China, City Express - Second Prize Contemporary Issues Category, Singles
World Press Photo 2015
1 — 31 May 2015 at Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan, Italy
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970 © Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Foto: Peter Gauhe
Fassbinder - Now
6 May — 23 Aug 2015 at Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Germany
Mosque with a difference © Peter Sanders
The Art of Integration
21 Apr — 20 Jun 2015 at Brunei Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Mask, Museum der Kulturen Basel, © Museum der Kulturen Basel
Dance of the Ancestors
18 Mar — 14 Jun 2015 at Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Germany
100 years of Planning Edinburgh
21 Mar — 20 Jun 2015 at the Museum of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
All images: © National Museums Northern Ireland. Collection Ulster Museum
Modern History
14 Feb 2015 — 26 Nov 2018 at Ulster Museum in Belfast, United Kingdom
All images: © Stephen Dobbie
Against Captain’s Orders
28 Mar — 31 Aug 2015 at the National Maritime Museum in London, United Kingdom
Kunmanara Hogan, Tjaruwa Woods, Yarangka Thomas, Estelle Hogan, Ngalpingka Simms and Myrtle Pennington, Kungkarangkalpa, Acrylic on canvas, 2013 © The artists, courtesy Spinifex Arts Project
Indigenous Australia
23 Apr — 2 Aug 2015 at the British Museum in London, United Kingdom
Maps of Persia 1477–1925
23 Jan — 21 Mar 2015 at Brunei Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Detail from: A cosmology manuscript, Late 1800s, Burma/Myanmar, Pigment on mulberry paper, Funded by the Brooke Sewell Permanent Fund © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Pilgrims, healers, and wizards
2 Oct 2014 — 11 Jan 2015 at the British Museum in London, United Kingdom
Elevator Repair Service, Arguendo. Photo: Paula Court
Elevator Repair Service: Arguendo
14 — 16 Mar 2014 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, United States
Rumore di acque, photo by Claire Pasquier
Teatro delle Albe. Noise in the Waters
30 January - 16 February 2014 at La MaMa, New York
Installation View 'My Hair: Black Hair Culture, Style and Politic' at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2013. Courtesy of Fitzwilliam Museum.
The Power of Objects
Origins of the Afro Combs, 2 July - 3 November, at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.
Film4 Summer Screen
8 August - 21 August 2013 at Somerset House, London.
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