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The royal city of Ayutthaya (ah-you-tah-ya) was a small kingdom in Siam (modern Thailand), and it was an unrivalled commercial and maritime power from 1350-1767 CE. Ayutthaya became the second capital of Siam in 1438 CE when it absorbed the...

An 1873 oil on canvas portrait, Poppy Field near Argenteuil, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. The models are Monet's wife Camille and son Jean, who appear twice in the picture. This work was chosen by the artist...

Map showing some of the major regional resouces of the eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, East Africa, and Central and South Asia.

This painted fragment on stone shows a foreign man from the Near East or Canaan presenting fruit. It was painted in ancient Egypt c. 1340 BCE. (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels)

An 1873 oil on canvas, Factory near Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist, unlike most other impressionists, was very interested in capturing industrial architecture like this sugar-beet...

Morpheus Awakening as Iris Draws Near, oil on canvas by René-Antoine Houasse, 1690. Palace of Versailles.

Megalithic funerary statues at Mesita B near San Agustín, Huila Department, Colombia. Created c. 1st to 10th century CE. For inclusion with article: https://member.ancient.eu/article/1433/suggested/

The Doric Temple of Hera, near Metapontum, southern Italy. 6th century BCE. Originally with 6x12 columns and part of a wider sanctuary to Hera, the Palatine Tables.

Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre, aquatint on paper by Karl Bodmer, plate 11 from Volume 2 of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, 1844.

This baked clay model depicts a man on a horseback. There is an inscribed stamp on the rider's arm. From railway tomb 1 near Carchemish, Southeastern Turkey. Neo-Hittite period, 8th century BCE. (The British Museum, London).