Mesolithic Age: Did you mean...?

Drawing depicting the Jelling cup - a Viking Age silver cup found in a burial mound at the site of Jelling, Denmark. It is decorated with typical Viking Age animal ornamentation, in this case of the so-called Jelling style...

The Gupta Empire (c. 320–550 CE) emerged from the Magadha (modern Bihar), establishing political dominance over much of northern, central, and western India...

Map showing some of the Viking Age (c. 790-1100 CE) trade routes that existed in North-West Europe during this time. Among the places depicted are such major trading centres are Hededy, Ribe, Birka and Kaupang...

Hercules and Geras, son of Nyx and the personification of old age. Detail from an Attic red-figure pelike attributed to the Geras Painter, c. 480-470 BCE. Louvre, Paris.

Map of Akrotiri in the Bronze Age, ca. 1600 BC.

Bronze Age village reconstruction. Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany.

Three Viking Age swords dated to between c. 750-950 CE are shown here. They were found in the river Meuse near Den Bosch, Aalburg and Wessem, in the Netherlands. They now belong to the collections of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden...

A 1788 oil on canvas painting, The Age of Innocence, by Joshua Reynolds (1723-92). The painting reflected a wider movement in the arts where artists were concerned with capturing the innocence of childhood, something...

Reconstructed Viking Age (c. 790-1100 CE) farm in Avaldsnes, Norway, including main longhouse and various outbuildings.

Viking Age bronze clothing pin (fibula) found in the Viking settlement of Hedeby, heavily decorated in the so-called Borre style (c. 850-late 10th century CE).