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Capital carved with the image of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. It was found on the Acropolis of Amathous, 6th century BCE. Limassol Archaeological Museum, Cyprus.

This ancient column capital of two bulls is made of sandstone, and it once graced a fine edifice in Kavtiskhevi, Georgia. It dates from the 3rd century BCE. (Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi)

The Reign of Terror, or simply the Terror (la Terreur), was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary...

Pyongyang (aka Pyeongyang) was the capital of several successive ancient Korean kingdoms. Located on the Daedong River in the north of the peninsula, the site was chosen by the legendary Dangun (Tangun), founder of the first...

Detail showing the capital of the left-sided engaged column at the façade of the rock-cut tombs of Ashkawt-I Qizqapan (Kurdish: The Cave of the Ravisher or the Cave of the Raped/Abducted Girl). The capital is of...

Heiankyo (Kyoto), located in the centre of Honshu island, was the capital of Japan for over a thousand years and gave its name to one of the golden ages of Japanese history, the Heian Period (794-1185 CE). Built according to Chinese...

This is a marble impost capital (or impost block). The short sides of this capital bear images of Empress Ariadne (borne 450, died 515 CE) and her Husband, the Byzantine Emperor, Anastasius I (reigned...

A column capital from the cathedral of Saint Gregory at the former medieval capital of Dvin in Armenia. 4th century CE.

A column capital in the form of a bull-man from the Tripylon, Persepolis, Achaemenid Period, Reign of Xerxes 486-465 BCE. (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)

This is a basket-shaped marble capital bearing monograms of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565 CE) and Empress Theodora (tenure, 527-548 CE). 6th century CE. From Bakırköy, Istanbul...