Treasure
A Royal Tunic
Unraveling an Inca masterpiece’s secrets
by Max J. Krupnick
The Great Refractor
On a commanding hillock less than a mile northwest of Harvard Square sits the Harvard College Observatory and the Great Refractor, shown here...
Snug in Seal
The inhabitants of Japan's northernmost island enjoy cold that pierces and snow that blows, but the indigenous Ainu woman who possessed this...
Royal Digits
How did the Historical Collection in Radiology at the Countway Library of Medicine come to include the x-rays shown here of a man with a...
Phantom Lowell
Photographs Courtesy of Harvard University Archives. Photograph of Bronze Statue Courtesy of the Harvard Univerxity Portrait Collection, 2003...
To the Victor...?
The curator of the Lee Family Hall of Athletic History, at the Murr Center, is Warren M. "Renny" Little ’55, a track man in his youth...
Headquarters
Artemas Ward, A.B. 1748, A.M. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a...
A Box of Pox
Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. (hon.) 1786, called smallpox the "devouring monster." Today it is the only naturally occurring disease...
Ladakhi Ladies
These figures of women, each about 18 inches tall, hail from Ladakh, a region of Kashmir and one of earth's highest places. Wearing traditional...
Korean Gentleman
"Korean scholars of Korean art consider our newly acquired Bamboo through the Four Seasons to be the most important Korean literati screen...
A Place Like Home
Nettie Naumburg died in 1930 and left to Harvard Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, a Franz Hals, a Rubens, a Holy Family by Murillo, a small...