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A folio from P46, an early 3rd century collection of Pauline epistles. Folio from Papyrus 46, an early 3rd century collection of Pauline epistles, containing 2 Corinthians 11:33-12:9 Transcription (the bracketed portions are illegible...

This iron lamp, comprising a round bowl on a tripod foot, still contains the remains of beeswax fuel, but no trace of a wick has survived. Iron lamps are extremely rare finds from early Anglo-Saxon England. So far they have been only found...

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

A map of Sicily in the early Bronze Age (2169 ±120 BCE - c.1500 BCE) divided into 4 cultural macro-regions: northern Sicily with the Rodì-Tindari-Vallelunga culture, western with the Naro/Partanna culture, the south-east with the Castelluccio...

The Early Christian Basilica dating to the beginning of the 5th century CE, Kourion, Cyprus.

The Early Christian Basilica dating to the beginning of the 5th century CE, Kourion, Cyprus.

An artist's depiction of an coronation ceremony in early Medieval Europe. From the game Old World.

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 collection for over 100 years, but it was not...

Although the ancient Egyptians are often depicted as death-obsessed and dour, they actually had a great appreciation for life and their culture reflected their belief in existence as an eternal journey imbued with magic. Life was a gift from...

A flintlock pistol, c. 1700-1730. English lock and stock. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)