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Archaerhodopsin
Archaerhodopsin (Arch, AR3) is a family of light-driven proton-pumping retinal proteins from halophilic archaea, discovered 1988 in Australian Halobacterium; Arch from Halorubrum sodomense is the basis of fluorescent voltage indicators like QuasAr and Archon.
Archaic Greece
Archaic Greece (c. 800-480 BC): era of the polis, Mediterranean colonization, the Greek alphabet, and hoplite warfare, ending with the Persian wars and Plataia in 479 BC.
Archaic period (North America)
Archaic period (North America): long hunter-gatherer era after Paleoindian, c. 13,000–3200 cal bp, before widespread agriculture, pottery, and mounds; marked by atlatl and dart points, ground stone, stone boiling, copper traditions, and Poverty Point earthworks.
Archaic tablets from Uruk
The archaic tablets from Uruk, also called the Uruk IV and III tablets, are about 5,000 proto-cuneiform clay tablets recording grain and livestock, dating to about 3350–3000 BC.
Archaic tholos tomb at Pharsalos
Archaic tholos tomb at Pharsalos (Verdelis tomb), a late 6th-century BC corbel-vaulted round tomb in the western cemetery of ancient Pharsalos, Thessaly, built over a Mycenaean tomb, holding an Exekias-workshop krater, used until the Hellenistic period.
Archaic Torso of Apollo
"Archaic Torso of Apollo" (Archaïscher Torso Apollos) is a 1908 sonnet by Rainer Maria Rilke, opening part two of Neue Gedichte and dedicated to Rodin. It describes a headless Louvre marble torso that seems to see the viewer, ending "You must change your life."
Archana (actress)
Archana (అర్చన), born Sudha, is an Indian actress of Telugu and Tamil cinema, renamed by Balu Mahendra to avoid confusion with Jayasudha. Two-time National Film Award Best Actress winner for Daasi (1988) and Veedu (2008); returned with Chor Bazaar (2022).
Archana Gautam (अर्चना गौतम)
Archana Gautam (अर्चना गौतम), born 1995 in Meerut, is an Indian actress, model, and politician: Miss Bikini India 2018, Bigg Boss 16 contestant, and Congress candidate from Hastinapur in the 2022 UP election. Not the cardiologist or researchers of the same name.
Archana Gupta
Archana Gupta, born 1968, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and radiologist who became president of the party's Haryana unit in May 2026, its second woman leader.
Archana Kavi
Archana Kavi (അർച്ചന കവി), full name Archana Jose Harish Kavi, is an Indian Malayalam film actress, television host, and writer, born 1990 in New Delhi; debuted in Neelathamara (2009), known for Mummy & Me, married Rick Varghese 2025.
Archana Puran Singh (अर्चना पूरन सिंह)
Archana Puran Singh (अर्चना पूरन सिंह), born 1962 in Dehradun, is an Indian actress and TV judge known for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai's Miss Braganza and The Kapil Sharma Show, whose comedy-show schedule cost her film offers for a decade after Bol Bachchan.
Archana Singh‐Manoux
Archana Singh-Manoux is a French-based epidemiologist at Inserm and honorary professor at University College London who studies cognitive decline and dementia risk, leading the Whitehall II cognitive aging program.
Archangel
Archangel (Greek archangelos, chief angel): a high-ranking angel in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic angelology. Michael and Gabriel are the chief named figures; Michael appears five times in scripture and headed a major late-antique cult with shrines at Monte Gargano and Chonae.
Archangel (2005 film)
Archangel (2005) is a BBC One thriller directed by Jon Jones, adapted from Robert Harris's novel, starring Daniel Craig as historian Fluke Kelso hunting Stalin's secret notebook legacy; filmed in Riga, Latvia, aired March 2005.
Archangel with Arquebus, Asiel
Archangel with Arquebus, Asiel (Arcángel arcabucero, Asiel Timor Dei) is a colonial baroque painting of the archangel Asiel aiming a harquebus, held in La Paz, Bolivia.
Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran
The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, also known as San Giovanni in Laterano, is Rome's cathedral and the Pope's seat as Bishop of Rome, consecrated in 324.
Archbishop
An archbishop is a bishop who also holds jurisdiction over the other bishops of an ecclesiastical province, a title recognized since the Council of Nicaea in 325.
Archbishop Jonathan Blake
Jonathan Clive Blake, born 1956, is a British Independent Catholic bishop consecrated in 2000 who co-founded the Open Episcopal Church, known for its open communion altar and ordination of women.
Archbishop Molloy High School
Archbishop Molloy High School, also called Molloy or St. Ann's Academy (original name), is a Catholic Marist co-ed college preparatory high school in Briarwood, Queens, New York, founded 1892, moved 1957, about 1,509 students, TACHS code 012.
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior archbishop of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion; Sarah Mullally holds the office since 2026.
Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland
The Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland is the title of the primate of the Orthodox Church of Finland, an autonomous church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Archbishop of Melanesia
The Archbishop of Melanesia is the chief bishop of the Anglican Church of Melanesia, covering Solomon Islands and Vanuatu; Leonard Dawea has held the office since 2019.
Archbishop of Turku
The Archbishop of Turku, formally Archbishop of Turku and Finland, is the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, an office created in 1817.
Archbishop of Uppsala
The Archbishop of Uppsala is the primate and senior bishop of the Church of Sweden, an office dating to 1164 whose 71st holder is Martin Modéus, elected in 2022.
Archbishop of York
The Archbishop of York is the senior bishop of the Church of England's northern province, styled Primate of England and second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Archbishop's Chapel, Ravenna
Archbishop's Chapel (Archiepiscopal Chapel, Cappella Arcivescovile di Sant'Andrea), Ravenna: small early Christian oratory built for Bishop Peter II, 494–519, under Theodoric; only orthodox monument of his reign, with Christ-as-Warrior vestibule mosaic and lily vault, UNESCO-listed since 1996.
Archbishopric of Novgorod
The Archbishopric of Novgorod (Новгородское епископство) was the Orthodox diocese of Novgorod, founded in the late 10th century under Prince Vladimir; its archbishop, elected locally, helped rule the Novgorod Republic.
Archbishopric of Ohrid
The Archbishopric of Ohrid (Охридска архиепископия) was an autocephalous Orthodox church seated at Ohrid, created by Emperor Basil II in 1019 from the Bulgarian patriarchate and abolished by Ottoman decree in 1767.
Archbishopric of Riga
The Archbishopric of Riga (Latvian: Rīgas arhibīskapija, 1255–1562) was the largest ecclesiastical state of medieval Livonia, a church-state under the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor centered on Riga and ended by the Livonian War.
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clerical office in the Anglican Communion, historically also Roman Catholic, in which a bishop delegates administrative and quasi-judicial authority over an archdeaconry.