Surprised by Time

Mercator Hondius, 1625-35, 13.5 x 17.2 cm. Published in Purchas , His Pilgrim es Hand-colored. DW Collection.

Fletcher is missing. There is no picture of William Fletcher. Two hundred years ago this July, George Gordon, Lord Byron (left), and Jo...

These marvellous striped stockings, much gimped, are all that remain of the figure of a stratiote in a Cretan fresco of military saints, ...

The picture is of a chapel with vestiges--here a classical column built in, just right of the lower center. William Gell noted this site a...

The story of Kleope Malatesta and Theodoros II Palaiologos has already been told here, a version of it with what the research had shown u...

The First Death happened in 1347. The Second Death in 1362. The Third Death in 1373. The Fourth Death in 1381.  The Fifth Death...

Evliya Çelebi learned this story in the Morea in 1668: Mouse Castle [Pondikókastro] was built by the Venetians on a peninsula at the sea...