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Mirror-Bearer, 6th century (Classic Maya), wood and red hematite, 35.9 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

New Smarthistory videos featuring two Metropolitan Museum curators

How Smarthistory stacks up (and why museums should care about YouTube)

Smarthistory.org is back!

Reconstruction drawing of Nimrud, the site of an ancient Assyrian palace, by James Fergusson for Sir Henry Layard, published in 1853. The columns depicted here were never found. The reconstruction is clearly influenced by what was known at that time of Greco-Roman architecture and by John Martin's Fall of Nineveh (1829).

Archaeological Reconstructions, by Sebastian Hageneuer, M.A.

Katsushika Hokusai, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa, Edo period, 19th century (Tokyo National Museum)

Freshman year jitters (as a professor)! (by Dr. Melody Rod-ari)

Come to: “The Ancient Cities of Uzbekistan: An Exploration into the Silk Road and its Architectural and Religious Heritage,” an illustrated lecture given by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (Smarthistory contributing editor) and George H. Lewis

Manar-al-Athar — Free resource for the study of the Middle East (by Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis)