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Head of a princess in the court of Akhenaten, found in Armarna. From the Amarna Period, circa 1353 to 1336 BCE. On display in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France (Département des Antiquités égyptiennes, E 14715)

The Classic Period ball court of Monte Alban (150-650 CE). The ball game was popular across Mesoamerica and the objective was to put a rubber ball through a hoop placed high on each wall. Any part of the body could be used...

An 1874 oil on canvas, Molesey Weir, Hampton Court, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. Here Sisley uses a variety of brushstrokes and has them in varying directions to give...

An 1874 oil on canvas, The Bridge at Hampton Court, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany)

Battle of Spottsylvania, lithograph by Kurz & Allison, c. 1888. Illustrated here is a scene from the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (8-21 May 1864), a bloody engagement of the American Civil War. Library of...

An 1874 oil on canvas, Under the Bridge at Hampton Court, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. (Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland)

Roger B. Taney, Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion on the Dred Scott Decision, Brady-Handy photograph collection, 1855-65. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza with goal high on wall and king's throne at the far end, c. 750-1200 CE.

This small building sits high above the great Ball Court at Chichen Itza and has been identified as a temple from which the priests and royalty would watch the game of Pok-a-Tok played below them.

Artist's impression of what the court of a Persian governor may have looked like.