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What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? A 3D Virtual Tour of the City During the Second Century AD
about 14 hours ago
The description “open-air museum” has often been applied, in various senses both...
Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music
about 22 hours ago
Like digging for fossils or panning for gold, the research process can...
Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
2 days ago
It’s common to feel like we know our artists, writers, musicians, actors…...
Watch the Evolution of Manhattan Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 1600 to 2026
2 days ago
A Manhattan without skyscrapers sounds difficult, if not impossible, to imagine today....
Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real
5 days ago
Open Culture readers may know John Green best for Crash Course, the...
The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book
6 days ago
Carl Jung’s Liber Novus, better known as The Red Book, has come...
A Guide to Every Major Film Adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey Before Christopher Nolan’s Movie
6 days ago
If you plan on shooting your own adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, bear...
Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek
7 days ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons It’s been a humanist truism for some time...
How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works
7 days ago
In Jerusalem of the year 1229, there lived a Greek Orthodox monk...
Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000)
8 days ago
At the moment, the answer to the question of why we should...
What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise
8 days ago
One of my favorite Brian Eno quotes, or rather one that became...
Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet
9 days ago
Maybe you’ve already seen Christopher Nolan’s new cinematic interpretation of the Odyssey...