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Odysseus’ Ten-year Journey Home
Image by Simeon Netchev

Odysseus’ Ten-year Journey Home

A map illustrating the journey home of the Achaean warrior-king Odysseus after the Trojan war. His travel from Troy to Ithaca (and his wife Penelope) took innumerable twists and turns and lasted ten years. Ever since Homer's Odyssey was written...
Four Coffins of the Victims of the Boston Massacre
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Four Coffins of the Victims of the Boston Massacre

A newspaper clipping from the Boston Gazette reporting on the funeral of four of the victims of the Boston Massacre, represented by an image of four coffins, each bearing the initials of a victim. These names from left to right include: Samuel...
Four Khanates of the Mongol Empire
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Four Khanates of the Mongol Empire

A map of the four Khanates of the Mongol Empire, after its division in 1259 CE.
The Four Castes of Ancient India - The Varna System
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The Four Castes of Ancient India - The Varna System

This infographic illustrates the Varna caste system in ancient India. First mentioned in the Rig Veda's Purusha Sukta c. 1200–1000 BCE, it shows society divided into four groups that emerged from the sacrifice of Purusha, a transcendent and...
Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
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Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs

Porphyry sculpture portraying the four Tetrarchs (Diocletian, Maximianus, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus) embracing. It is dated to c. 300 CE and was sculpted in Asia Minor. It probably originally decorated two separate pillars in Constantinople...
The Four Elements
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The Four Elements

The Four Elements. Painting by Mana Lesman. Used with the permission of the artist.
Eos in Her Four-horse Chariot
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Eos in Her Four-horse Chariot

Eos in her four-horse chariot, detail of terracotta red-figure lekanis vase attributed to the Stuttgart group, from Canosa, late 300s BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Bottles with Four Tubes from Roman Cologne and Trier
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Bottles with Four Tubes from Roman Cologne and Trier

Four tubes are connected to the upper and lower portions of these ancient Roman glass bottles. The tubes were created by carefully cutting and bending the body of a free-blown glass bottle. Like similar piece from Trier, the Cologne bottle...
Four Greek Philosophers
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Four Greek Philosophers

Marble portrait heads of four Greek philosophers (Socrates, Antisthenes of Athens, Chrysippus, and Epicurus), Roman copies after Hellenistic originals. The British Museum, London.
Apkallu with Four Wings
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Apkallu with Four Wings

Alabaster bas-relief of an Apkallu with four wings. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Panel 26, Room B, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)
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