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Hunter-gatherer societies are – true to their astoundingly descriptive name – cultures in which human beings obtain their food by hunting, fishing, scavenging, and gathering wild plants and other edibles. Although there are still groups of...

Sir James Douglas, aka 'Black Douglas' (c. 1286-1330 CE), a Scottish knight who fought for his country's independence from England. He is here shown with fellow fighters Robert Bruce and William Wallace. (Entrance hall frieze by William Hole...

The Half Moon Battery of Edinburgh Castle, Scotland. 16-17th century.

In Norse mythology, the Sun and the Moon appear as personified siblings pulling the heavenly bodies and chased by wolves, or as plain objects. Written sources, such as the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, have surprisingly little to say about...

James II of Scotland ruled as king from 1437 to 1460. Succeeding his murdered father James I of Scotland (r. 1406-1437), James inherited the throne as a child. The first part of his reign witnessed intense rivalries between rival barons...

A venatio scene with a hunter attacking a lioness. The painting once adorned the balustrade of the podium of the Roman amphitheatre of Augusta Emerita in the late 1st century CE. It was found reused in a tomb outside the amphitheatre, which...

An illumination from a Late Medieval manuscript made in Brittany, France c. 1430 - 1440 CE. The painting portrays a hunters and their dogs attacking a wounded wildcat which is clinging to a tree. From Ms. 27 (87.MR.34), fol. 97, in the...

The Resuscitation of the Only Daughter is a Sioux story about a young maiden who dies and returns to life, helped by a hunter and his wife, and then lives into old age. The story is open to many interpretations including the concept of fate...

The bronze drachm of Trajan (r. 98-117 CE) on the left, minted 112-113 CE, represents one of the denominations produced at Alexandria. The half-drachm on the right was minted in 111-112 CE at Alexandria also. (The British Museum, London).

Half-figure tombstone of Gaius Largennius of legio II Augusta from Strasbourg. General view of half-figure relief. Inv. Nr. 2431; Éspérandieu 5495 H: 1.48m; W: 0.655m; Th: 0.21m