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Herodotus' Histories with their historical, geographical, ethnographic, and religious aspects, have always been a source of delight and interest, not only for generations of readers, students, and storytellers, but also for artists...

The World Heritage-listed Nazca lines are a well-known part of the ancient heritage of Peru. One woman spent over 50 years studying and protecting them. Ana Maria Cogorno Mendoza shares the story of Dr Maria Reiche...

Archimedes Thoughtful, painted 1620 CE in Mantua by Domenico Fetti (1588–1623). Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany.

Sistine Madonna, oil on canvas painting by Raphael, 1513-1514. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

Statue of Megara in Bluherpark, Dresden, Germany.

Elector John Frederick I of Saxony (l. 1503-1554), portrait by Lucas Cranach the Younger, 1578. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

The Liberation of Arsinoë, depicting the Ptolemaic princess Arsinoë IV (left) being rescued by Ganymedes after she was imprisoned by Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE). Oil on canvas by Italian Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto...

A cake of dried indigo dye. (Collection of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany)

A painting portraying the wedding of an ancient Israelite judge Samson. Oli on canvas. Created by Rembrandt in 1638. Located at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany.

A c. 1869-72 oil on card painting, Woman with Binoculars, by Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the French impressionist painter. Degas had a fixation for a time in presenting a woman looking directly at the viewer with binoculars...