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The idea that Cleopatra VII (69-30 BCE), the famous last queen of ancient Egypt, owed her powerful position to her beauty persists. “The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have changed,” the French...

Anne of Austria (1601-1666), as the wife of King Louis XIII of France (r. 1610-1643), was queen consort of France and of Navarre when the Kingdom of Navarre was annexed by the French Crown. She also acted as regent for her son, King Louis...

The interior courtyard of the House of the Beautiful Courtyard in Herculaneum with a staircase and a wooden balcony connecting to four upstairs rooms.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of spells which enable the soul of the deceased to navigate the afterlife. The famous title was given the work by western scholars; the actual title would translate as The Book of Coming Forth...

Picture stone with whirling suns, ornaments, and a ship, 5th-6th century. Fornsalen Museum, Visby (Gotland).

Marke (Rufus Sewell) and Isolde (Sophia Myles) as depicted in the 2006 motion picture Tristan + Isolde.

Gold-foil picture depicting a couple embracing each other, found in Scandinavia. It is thought to represent the Norse god Freyr and his wife Gerðr united in holy marriage (hieros gamos). These tiny images are known as 'guldgubber' and...

The War of the Fifth Coalition (1809) was a major conflict of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) that was fought primarily in Central Europe between the First French Empire and its client states against the Austrian Empire, supported by the...

Beautiful Prairie Bluffs, Upper Mississippi, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1835-1836. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Vase painting (on a white-ground wine pitcher) depicting a young woman spinning wool from distaff, twisting a thread between the fingers of her right hand (ceramic oinochoe, 21.6 cm, detail; found in Locri, created in Attica; ca. 490-470...