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Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal Possibly Depicting Tiamat as a Serpent

The seal may illustrate a scene from the epic of creation in which the forces of chaos, led by Tiamat, are defeated by a god representing cosmic order, probably Ninurta. 900 BCE - 750 BCE

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Calligraphic Depiction of Ali as a Lion

Shiite calligraphy depicting Caliph Ali (r. 656-661 CE) as the Lion of God.

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Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature as Samson and Delilah

Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah (1949). The ancient Israelite judge Samson was betrayed by his lover Delilah, who was sent to him by his enemies, the Philistines. ©Paramount Pictures Studios.

Image by Pierre-Roch Vigneron

Maximilien Robespierre as a Deputy of the Third Estate

Maximilien Robespierre dressed in the all-black attire of a deputy of the Third Estate, during the Estates-General of 1789 and the National Constituent Assembly. Oil on canvas portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron, after a pastel drawing by Adélaïde...

Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Antinous as Omphalos Apollo

This torso, amended to resemble the statue of the Capitoline Antinous in Rome, belongs to a series of ancient copies of the so-called "Omphalos Apollo". This famous Greek original from around 460 BCE is preserved in several ancient copies...

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Morgane Polanski as Princess Gisla and Clive Standen as Rollo

Morgane Polanski and Clive Standen in the television series Vikings. The characters are based on Gisela of France and Rollo of Normandy.

Image by Steven G. Johnson

Thoth as a Baboon

A statue of the Egyptian god Thoth as a baboon. 1400 BCE. (British Museum, London)

Image by Willem van de Poll

Foro Italico (Inaugurated As Foro Mussolini)

A 1937 photograph of the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, initially called the 'Foro Mussolini' after Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy. It was designed in 1927 by architect Enrico Del Debbio, and then inaugurated...

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Marble Statue of Catherine the Great as Minerva

Catherine the Great in the guise of Minerva, marble statue by Fedot Shubin, 1789-1790. Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Medallions showing Commodus as Hercules

The Emperor Commodus wished to be identified with the god Hercules. On these medallions, he is depicted as Hercules, with a lion-skin headdress (upper image). He is also shown ploughing a ritual furrow to re-found Rome in his own name (lower...