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Lullaby for a Son of Shulgi is a Sumerian cradlesong from the reign of Shulgi of Ur (2094 to circa 2046 BCE) written for one of his sons. The lullaby follows a standard form of encouraging...

Today we sit down with Gordon Doherty to discuss his new book Empires of Bronze: Son of Ishtar. Based in the dark and cold north (i.e. Scotland), Gordon has written extensively on ancient Greece and...

An 1881-2 painting in oils, Portrait of the Artist's Son, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. Cézanne's son, also called Paul (b. 1872), is here around nine years old. He was a...

Group portrait of Louis XIII of France (r. 1610-1643), Anne of Austria (l. 1601-1666), and their son Louis XIV of France (r. 1643-1715), flanked by Cardinal Richelieu and the Duchesse de Chevreuse...

Helen Recognising Telemachus, Son of Odysseus, oil on panel by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, 1795. In a scene from Book 4 of Homer's Odyssey, Helen recognizes Telemachus when he visits Sparta due to his striking...

Artist's rendition of the story from the Vinland Sagas in which the Viking Thorvald, brother of Leif Erikson and son of Erik the Red, encounters natives in North America while on expedition there, and dies...

King Chlothar II of the Franks (r. 584-629) with his young son, Dagobert I (r. 623-639). Image from the manuscript Grand Chronicle of France, Fr 73 f. 63r., 14th century. National Library of France, Paris.

A votive marble offering in the style of Lysippos from the Daochos Monument at Delphi; over-life-size at 2m tall; Late Classical; c.336- 332 BCE. Agias was the grandfather of Daochos II, who dedicated the monument, and...

As a prisoner in the Tower of the Temple, King Louis XVI of France still made sure to educate his son, the dauphin Louis-Charles (Louis XVII of France) on history and geography. Image by unknown...

The inscription on this funerary relief says that the two figures are "Yedi Bel" and his son "Zabde'atach". Limestone. Roman Period, 200-273 CE. From Palmyra, in modern-day Syria. (Museum of Archaeology...