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The bombing of Berlin, aka the Berlin Air Offensive or Battle of Berlin (Air), was a sustained bombing campaign on the German capital by the British Royal Air Force and United States Air Force from November 1943 until March...

The emperor Aulus Vitellius (r. 69 CE) had never wanted to be Rome's emperor. Aulus was from a family of court flatterers to the first Caesars, and when his friend Nero (r. 54-68 CE) was dead, and there were no more...

This map illustrates the changing patterns of Christian pilgrimage during the Middle Ages: for most Europeans the long, perilous, and costly journey to the Holy Land was too far, dangerous, and...

Sefer Torah at old Glockengasse Synagogue (reconstruction), Cologne.

Venetia, part of a larger map drawing probably by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, included in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Vol. 1, p. 44, Cologne, 1593-1618. This is an aerial view of what the Arsenal looked like in late...

Mithras looks away from the dying bull, up to the moon. Also, Mithras has a few little helpers that accompany him in taking the bull's fertility: a dog and a snake drink from the bull's blood, and a scorpion...

Antiquitates Iudaicae (Antiquities of the Jews) by Flavius Josephus in Latin translation, beginning of Book 4, in the 12th/century illuminated manuscript ms. 162, fol. 41r. Dombibliothek, Cologne.

Roman gilt silver fibula in the form of a three-story tripartite gate of rusticated masonry, with a central double-arched entrance flanked by two towers and a draped bust of Sol at the top story, c. 3rd century to early...

A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Nerva (r. 96-98 CE) may have looked like. Based on contemporary and near contemporary descriptions, as well as archaeological evidence. Pictured alongside...

An 1880 oil on canvas still life, Bunch of Asparagus, by Edouard Manet (1832-83), the French modernist painter. Manet was particularly interested in still life, especially towards the end of his career. The work was bought...