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The lighting of fires during the Aztec New Fire Ceremony of 1507, a ritual held every 52 years to ensure the continuation of the Sun. The priests carry fire bundles and wear turquoise masks in imitation of the fire god Xiuhtecuhtli, as do...

A May 1944 photograph of new arrivals, Hunagrian Jewish people, at the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp. The arrivals are being spearated into two groups: those who will be sent to the concentration camp and those who will go immediately...

A painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris showing the Scottish privateer turned pirate Captain Kidd (c. 1645-1701) in New York harbour. William Kidd was found guilty of piracy and hanged in 1701. (Library of Congress)

New Year's Image, Persepolis

On 20 December 1803, after the Louisiana Purchase, the American flag is hoisted in New Orleans. Oil on canvas painting by Thure de Thulstrup, 1902. Louisiana State Museum.

The Kiosk of Qertassi is a small but elegant Roman kiosk with four lotus-headed columns inside and two Hathor pillars at the entrance. It dates to the early Roman period (1st century CE) and resembles the Kiosk of Trajan in Philae. The monument...

Kokopelli petroglyph in New Mexico, USA, photograph by Carptrash, 2009. Most likely depicting another kachina spirit figure of the Pueblo peoples who has come to be identified with Kokopelli.

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany

An 1892 oil on canvas, Parau Api (What's New?), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Tahiti. In a letter to his wife, Gauguin wrote: "And these people are called savages!...They sing; they never steal...

The vision of a new Jerusalem as described in the book of Revelation, folio 55 recto, MS A. II. 42, Bamberger Apokalypse, c. 1000. Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg.