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Fragment of a blue glass cup with a scene depicting a pair of gladiators fighting. The gladiators are identified by name in the Latin inscription above them: etraites (a murmillo) and Prudes (a Thracian), with part of the name of Proculus...

An oil painting of Mary of Guise (l. 1515-1560 CE), Queen of Scotland (r. 1538-1542) as the second wife of James V of Scotland (r. 1513-1542 CE). Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (1500/1510–1575). (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh...

Terracotta medallion depicting a charioteer in his quadriga, holding the victor's crown and palm branch, from the Rhône Valley, dated to the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE. In Rome, chariot racing was organized into teams, each identified...

A Mamluk chanfron, designed to protect the face and head of a warhorse. Hammered iron and gold decorations. Made in Egypt or Syria, c. 1419 CE. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

Get to know the life and works of poet Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who became one of colonial America’s most famous writers. – In 1775, General George Washington received a poem from one of colonial America’s most famous writers...