Educated at Oxford, Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) served as a professor of Greek language and history at the University of London and as director of studies at the Royal Institute of International ...

With today’s technology, it seems like there is no mystery or question that can’t be answered, or person that can’t be found. But the Toynbee Tiles are one of urbanity’s unsolved mysteries. Scattered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 4—SCRANTON — Mysterious mosaic designs and a message tarred onto streets downtown spur questions. What are they? How were ...

Few mysteries in the modern era are as fascinatingly bizarre as that of the Toynbee Tile. Stroll through specific neighborhoods in cities along the East Coast and you’ll come across a colorful ...

The film Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles* just won the U.S. Documentary Competition Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and so we asked puzzlemaker Eric Harshbarger to give ...

In March 1947, Arnold J. Toynbee appeared on the cover of Time magazine that hailed him as the most provocative historian since Karl Marx. In 1952, he delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the ...

RECONSIDERATIONS (740 pp.)—Arnold J. Toynbee—Oxford ($10). THE INTENT OF TOYNBEE’S HISTORY (224 pp.)—Edifed by Edward T. Gargan —Loyola ($5). Scholars are not a notably generous lot. When they review ...

A South Philadelphia neighborhood, the British historian/philosopher Arnold J. Toynbee, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and a one-act play by David Mamet all turn up as important elements in the investigation ...

Professor William H. McNeill wrote Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life at the request of Lawrence Toynbee, the historian’s sole surviving child. He has produced a solid and felicitously written, indeed ...

4 Extra Debut. Polly Toynbee explores how the Great War shaped her grandfather, historian Arnold J Toynbee's life and writing. From 2017. Show more Polly Toynbee examines how war profoundly informed ...