The great care taken to send this man, Bashiri, off to an optimal afterlife destination is inspiring to me and my own beliefs about how to mourn well.

Learn about the mummification process and what that process meant in Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife.

Yes, this is a real, human mummy!

Justice for all is precious and precarious--Hammurabi sends quite the set of curses to any who treat it lightly.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...

This is more than a rock!

This is a 16th-century invitation to question our attention economy.

We stand as customers of money-changers, and Metsys quietly gives us moralizing commentary on this fixation of material wealth.

Textures and Details lure us in this everyday scene of life during the Northern Renaissance.

Lessons learned from the Horatii brothers and sisters.