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The Agora (marketplace) at the Minoan settlement of Hagia Triada (Crete) belonging to the Mycenaean era (1400-1100 BCE) with eight spacious rooms, probably shops, arranged behind a portico.

Sophie Charlotte Princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Queen in Prussia, oil on canvas by Noël Jouvenet, 17th century. Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin. Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg & Handrick, Roland (1999)

During the reign of the emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE), one of the worst outbreaks of the plague took place, claiming the lives of millions of people. The plague arrived in Constantinople in 542 CE, almost a year after the disease first...

Minoan limestone sarcophagus, c. 1400 BCE. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. This painting appears on one of the two longer sides of the sarcophagus. It shows a sacrificial procession, part of a funerary ritual, with a woman offering...

Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv, founded in 1011 by the Great Duke of Kyiv Vladimir the Great (958 - c. 1015). It is the most ancient and fully preserved church of Eastern Europe. Inside the cathedral, there are plenty of well-preserved mosaics...

A detail of the facade of the Celsus Library in Ephesos (c. 117 CE). The statue represents wisdom (sophia), an attribute associated with the former proconsul Celsus to whom the building was dedicated.

German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) and his second wife Sophia Schliemann (1852-1930) during a trip to Germany in 1883.

Sophia Peabody, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, oil on canvas portrait by Chester Harding, 1830. Peabody Essex Museum.

Well-preserved fresco of a saint, 11th century. Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv.

St. Sophia's Cathedral, Novgorod, Russia. It was first built c. 1037 CE by the Kievan Rus king Yaroslav I (c. 1019-1054 CE)