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North American jackrabbit (hare) – lepus capensis – photographed by Shah Jahan. This would be the sort of jackrabbit featured in the Cheyenne story The Woodpecker's Mother-in-Law where the girl complains to the rabbit...

In this short film, Emily Hannam discusses a pair of mid-seventeenth century paintings by the Mughal court artists Bichitr and Ramdas from the most famous South Asian manuscript in the Royal Collection, the Padshahnama...

The Faiyum, an ancient oasis which flourished during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. It is most famous today for the finds of many fine painted mummy coffin lids.

A fragmented tile found in the complex, impressed with Kharoshti numerals. From the Harwan Monastery in Kashmir, India.

An apsidal shrine made in diaper pebble masonry on the second terrace of the complex. From the Harwan Monastery in Kashmir, India.

Triple based stupa in Harwan Monastery in diaper rubble style. Kashmir, India.

Set of rooms which might have been used for residential purposes or as a chapel. Part of the Harwan Monastery in Kashmir, India.

Another view of the stupa at the Harwan Monastery in Kashmir, India.

Justinian I reigned as emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565 CE. Born around 482 CE in Tauresium, a village in Illyria, his uncle Emperor Justin I was an imperial bodyguard who reached the throne on the death of Anastasius...

The government of ancient Persia was based on an efficient bureaucracy which combined the centralization of power with the decentralization of administration. The Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) founded by Cyrus the...