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"HEGESO, DAUGHTER OF PROXENOS" ΗΓΗΣΩΠΡΟΧΕΝΟ So reads the inscription at the top of the stele. At left a slave girl stands, holding out a jewellery box for Hegeso who has taken an item out of the box. The detail of the...

Ancient Egyptian tomb painting depicting workmen bringing offerings to a funeral, from the tomb of Nebamun and Ipuky, Thebes, New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1570 to c. 1069 BCE), 18th Dynasty, c. 1400 BCE. Royal Ontario...

Artist's impression of how a Scythian funeral process may have looked like. A typical Scythian burial mound (or kurgan) is visible in the background.

A 1904 photograph of the state funeral procession in Prague of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).

Marble funeral stele depicting a hoplite soldier, signed by Aristokles (500 BCE), National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

An Iberian funeral stela from Empuries. The design shows a a coiled iron spear or soliferreum, an action which was customary on burial. 6th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries, Spain)

Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre, aquatint on paper by Karl Bodmer, plate 11 from Volume 2 of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, 1844.

The Holy Roman Empire officially lasted from 962 to 1806. It was one of Europe’s largest medieval and early modern states, but its power base was unstable and continually shifting. The Holy Roman Empire was not a unitary state...

The Roman army fought many conflicts throughout its long history, though perhaps none so indelible as the Pyrrhic War from 280 to 275 BCE. This war between Rome and a league of Greek colonies in southern Italy...

Military supremacy of the seas could be a crucial factor in the success of any land campaign, and the Romans well knew that a powerful naval fleet could supply troops and equipment to where they were most needed in as short...