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East Roman Empire, 6th century CE, showing the territories of the Avars, Goths, Franks, Lombards, Saxons, Thuringians, Slavs.

A map of the traditional areas inhabited by the Scythians, stretching east from the Ukraine.

This relief, which is seen on the east side of the Payava Tomb, depicts a battle of cavalry and foot soldiers. The inscriptions in Lycian record that the tomb was built by Payava. The Payava tomb is a limestone tomb with gabled roof. It was...

Map of East Frisia by the Dutch Johannes Florianus (1522-1585) for the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, one of the first accurate modern atlas, 1595.

Map of the East Coast from the River Thames to Edinburgh, from Great Britain's Coasting Pilot,ink on paper by Greenville Collins, c. 1682-1694. Probably drafted in 1682 but not published until 1693, this chart is the first to show with accuracy...

Building Babylon: this inscribed stone was found at the ruins of Babylon and described the religious devotion and civic achievement of king Nebuchadnezzar II. The long inscription records that as well as building the Processional Way and...

A dancer, one of hundreds, from the facade of the east gopura (gateway) of the Nataraja temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. c.1200 CE.

The remains of the east gate (porta principalis dextra) of Birdoswald fort, the best-preserved fort gateway on Hadrian's Wall.

Engraved portrait of Kings of East Francia Charles the Fat (r. 876-887 CE), Holy Roman Emperor (r. 881-887 CE), and Louis III the Younger (r. 876-882 CE), by unknown creator, c. 1634-1643 CE. The British Museum, London.

Semiramis is the semi-divine Warrior-Queen of Assyria, whose reign is most clearly documented by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (l. 90-30 BCE) in his great work Bibliotheca Historica ("Historical Library") written over thirty years...