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Rank badge with qilin, silk embroidery on silk gauze, unknown artist, 16th to early 17th century. This embroidered rank badge is from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and was used to indicate military rank...

An early-modern bookwheel, used to display several open books at once. (Jagiellonian University Museum Krakow, Poland)

Political situation in Sri Lanka, early 17th century.

The life and death of Gebelein Man Found in around 1896, the mummy known as Gebelein man was buried in about 3500 BC at the site of Gebelein in Upper Egypt. He has been in the British Museum...

The medieval Church established its monopoly over the spiritual life of Europeans in the Early Middle Ages (c. 476-1000) and consolidated that power throughout the High Middle Ages (1000-1300) and Late Middle...

The pathways toward early civilization and complex society between c. 12,000 and 1000 BCE were neither uniform nor linear. After the end of the last Ice...

Map of Asia Minor in the early 1st century CE with the Kingdom of Commagene as a Roman client state.

Ancient Egyptian depiction of an early instance of cow domestication.

Two men taking an X-ray with an early Crookes tube apparatus from the late 1800s. Illustration from The X-ray, or Photography of the Invisible and its Value in Surgery by William J. Morton and Edwin W...

Map showing fossil sites of Homo heidelbergensis and early Neanderthals.