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A face of a woman fragment from an Egyptian coffin. New Kingdom of Egypt, 18th-20th Dynasty, 1550-1070 BCE. Egyptian Museum, Turin.

An 1879 painting titled 'Remnants of an Army' by Elizabeth Thomson showing Dr William Brydon, the sole European survivor of the Retreat from Kabul in 1842 during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42). (Tate Britain)

A portrait of an unknown woman, thought to be Emilia Lanier Bassano, English poet and perhaps the inspiration behind William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady'. Watercolor on vellum, by Nicholas Hilliard, circa...

Greek warrior fighting an Amazon, detail from a painted alabaster sarcophagus, photograph by Sailko, Italy, 01 January, 2014. Section of the painted alabaster sarcophagus known as the "Amazon Sarcophagus" found...

Qur'an Manuscript, ink, gold, and lapis on paper, with leather binding, India, Kashmir, late 18th–early 19th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This is an ephebe, a young athlete, probably around the age of 12 years. He is leaning on a long rectangular pillar; the latter would have been originally topped by a herm or some kind of a relief. He must have just...

Inscribed stone boundary marker from Chalkidiki, c.350 to 300 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Thessalonika. It is an example of ancient Greek boundary markers, known as horoi, and it contains...

This Hellenistic bronze statuette of an African youth dates to sometime between the 2nd-3rd Centuries BCE. It portrays a young worker, likely a blacksmith or other artisan, of Sub-Saharan African origin...

Dolon, the son of Emuedes was a participant in the Trojan War and fought for Troy. On this Attic red-figure lekythos dated to 460 BCE, Dolon is depicted walking on all fours and covered in a wolf skin as a disguise...

An 1874 oil on canvas, Woman in an Armchair, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Renoir was expert at relaxing his sitter and extracting from them a natural pose. He frequently used...