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Three heads of worshippers from the Temple of Apollo-Reshef, Cyprus, 350-250 BCE. Early Hellenistic style. (British Museum, London)

A 2nd century CE Attic relief plaque depicting three nymphs being led to a tree and an altar by a fourth woman. (Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Athens)

These maps illustrate the trajectory of the early Crusades (1096–1192), a series of military campaigns launched by the medieval Latin Church with the declared goal of reclaiming the Holy Land—centered between the Mediterranean Sea and the...

The Third Estate of France carrying the other two orders (Clergy and Nobility) on its back, engraving with the initials M. P., Paris, 1789. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Limestone plaque depicting the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE) on the left holding one of his daughters and Queen Nefertiti (c. 1370 to c. 1336 BCE) on the right with one daughter sitting on her lap and the other resting on...

An inhabited initial from 13th-century France depicting the tripartite order of the Middle Ages: the Oratores (those who pray – the clerics), the Bellatores (those who fight – knights or nobility) and the Laboratores (those who work – peasants...

Gold signet ring showing one female and two male figures before a temple, from Phourni, Crete, c. 1700-1450 BCE. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Minoan religion is characterized by the prominent role of female figures engaged in...

Never seen by the Public before 2011. A small fragment of an ivory plaque from Nimrud. It was a carved panel with 3 perpendicular rosettes. The golden overlay is still intact. Neo-Assyrian Period, 9th to 8th centuries BCE. From Nimrud (ancient...

The Antikythera Mechanism (also known as the Antikythera Device), dated to the late 2nd century/early 1st century BCE (roughly 205-60 BCE) is understood as the world's first analogue computer. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

The 3 figures are sea nymphs, daughters of the sea god Nereus, riding over the waves on sea creatures. They are thought to have escorted the soul of the deceased on its journey to the afterlife. A sea bird is visible under the feet of the...