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An 1866 oil on canvas, Woman in a Green Dress (aka Camille in a Green Dress), by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. This work was...

Illustration of the capitivity of Mary Rowlandson. Published in Our greater country: being a standard history of the United States, 1901 CE. Henry Davenport...

A ceramic figure-vessel representing a priest of the Zapotec civilization. Oaxaca, Mexico, 250-600 CE. The figure wears a mask, feathered headdress, and a...

Mar 4, 2024 - According to legend, Ancient Rome was founded by the two brothers, and demigods, Romulus and Remus, on 21 April 753 BCE. The legend claims that in an...

This short lecture discusses about two of the most famous works of literature in Japanese history, both written by court women during the Heian period...

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Elamite Ziggurat located in today's Khuzestan Province in Iran. It was constructed in approximately 1250 BCE in a religious city originally called Dur Untash.

Dec 2, 2025 - Super Mario World is a 2D action-adventure platform game developed by Nintendo EAD for the Super Famicom in 1990 and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in...

Wallis Simpson (1896 - 1986) photographed in 1934 (approx.). This photograph is most likely by Angelo Laviosa, who was a society photographer in New York. It...

The Roman-built temple of Apollo in the Asclepeion sanctuary of Kos, 2nd century CE.

Library of Oheka Castle, Huntington, Long Island, USA, built by the industrialist Otto Herman Khan (l. 1867-1934) during the Gilded Age of America.

Mongolian dried cheese curd, a traditional dish eaten by Mongol nomadic peoples.

The Kingdom of Kanem (aka Kanim) was an ancient African state located in modern-day Chad, which flourished from the 9th to 14th century CE. With its...

Roman women faced legal, ideological, and cultural limitations in several areas of their lives; deep-rooted traditions regarding the role of women in the...

The God Mercury was one of the Dii Consentes (12 major deities in the Pantheon of ancient Rome; 6 gods and 6 goddesses). Mercury was the god of financial...

A statue of the Egyptian god Sobek, classically depicted with a crocodile head. Limestone. From the Temple of Amenemhet in Hawara, Egypt. Middle Kingdom,...

Flat bone sewing needle found at Gourdan Cave, Haute-Garonne, France. It belongs to the western European Magdalenian culture (c. 17,000 - c. 10,000 years ago...

Aug 2, 2023 - Ancient Greek science is a modern term for the application of systematic inquiry into the individual, the world, and the universe, which began in Ionia in...

The Altartate Cauldron, made of poplar with yew handles, found in a bog near clones, Co. Monaghan, Ireland during turf cutting in 1933, dating to the 2nd...

Alabaster statuette (height: 46 cm), depicting a bearded bald-headed man, most likely a priest/man of a high rank. He clasps his hands in a prayer attitude....

Aug 7, 2023 - The Romans are known for their remarkable engineering feats, be they roads, bridges, tunnels, or their impressive aqueducts. Their constructions, many of...

An example of jousting armour as used in medieval tournaments. Commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I c. 1494 CE. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

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The Early Christian Basilica dating to the beginning of the 5th century CE, Kourion, Cyprus.

Traditional Bhutanese handwoven textiles.

More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=XXl5h257iBA Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs, Parthenon Metopes, south flank, marble, c. 440 B.C.E...

The Mystic massacre took place on May 26, 1637, during the Pequot War, when English settlers under Captain John Mason, and Narragansett and Mohegan allies...

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The so-called Hyphasis Mutiny was a conflict between Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) and his army following their victory at the river Hydaspes in 326 BCE...

Stone representation of the awakening of Osiris, A 26th Dynasty, Egypt. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Pirates in the so-called Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1740) used all manner of weapons to attack ships and relieve them of their precious cargoes. Heavy...

Boothby Pagnell Manor House, Lincolnshire, U.K. Built c. 1200 CE.

This sheet is decorated with an impression of a coin of the Emperor Valens (Flavius Julius Valens Augustus), 364-378 CE. It may have been intended as a curse...

The star is located near the New Gate on the northern part of the walls of Jerusalem.

The Empress Bruttia Crispina, wife of Roman Emperor Commodus, c. 180 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Although the use of glazed tiles and colored paste inlays is known from as early as the Old Kingdom, the apogee of their use came during the New Kingdom. An...

The Viking Age Snaptun stone was carved around 1000 CE and shows a face with stitched-up lips, which reminds of a story preserved in the Prose Edda where the...

A painted limestone bust of Hercules-Melqart. Cyprus, 5th century BCE. The god was an amalgamation of the Greek hero Hercules and the Phoenician god Melqart...

The ruins of the Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome. Completed in 28 BCE, it was the largest tomb ever constructed in the Roman world.

Achilles holding the Amazon Queen Penthesilea, whom he fell in love with at the moment he killed her during the Trojan War. Relief from the side of a...

The Aztec culture, centred at the capital of Tenochtitlan, dominated most of Mesoamerica in the 15th-16th centuries. With military conquest and trade...

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Gideon and His Three Hundred, illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1907.

At its height in the 13th century CE, Geghard Monastery in what's present-day Armenia benefited from the patronage of Armenian and Georgian princely families...

Acquarossa, located in the north of Italy's Lazio region, is the site of an Etruscan settlement of unknown name. Although much smaller than other, more...

This lithograph of Stela D at Copan was done by Frederick Catherwood and first published in 1844 in his book, Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America,...

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Richard II of England reigned as king from 1377 to 1399 CE. The son of the late Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376 CE), Richard would succeed his grandfather...

Wooden screen depicting the Shinto god Susanoo defeating the dragon with eight heads, 19th century. Susanoo was the god of storms and Yomi, the underworld...

The Achilles Revealed mosaic from Zeugma (southeastern Turkey) depicts Achilles (disguised as a girl) being discovered by Odysseus on Skyros island. The...

This ancient Japanese incense burner has a lion-shaped weight at the end of its handle. It was cast in bronze and dates from the 8th century CE during the...

The Castle of Sasso Corbaro stands elegant 230 meters above Bellinzona, Switzerland towering over the entire city. This location makes Sasso Corbaro a...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the most well-known literature on account of its ancient pedigree and universal themes. Though an extensively analyzed epic...