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Aware of the power of appearances, Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603 CE) carefully controlled her image throughout her reign and through costume, hair, jewellery, and art, she presented herself as the great Virgin Queen. Like a goddess...

Achilles The hero of the Trojan War, leader of the Myrmidons, slayer of Hector and Greece's greatest warrior, who sadly came unstuck when Paris sent a flying arrow guided by Apollo, which caught him in his only weak spot, his heel. Adonis...

A satellite image of the region of the eastern Mediterranean variously known as Canaan, Phoenicia, Palestine and Israel throughout history.

The Tjängvide image stone dating to the Viking Age found in Gotland, Sweden and probably showing Odin on his horse Sleipnir (or otherwise a dead man arriving at Odin's hall of Valhalla) on the middle-right.

A mural in Ajanta (between 2nd century BCE – 6th century CE) depicting a scene from Mahajanaka Jataka. The image could be located in Ajanta Cave 1, a vihara, and created in 5th century CE.

New Year's Image, Persepolis

Terracotta oil lamp from Cyprus, the first half of the 1st century CE. The discus has an engraved image of a rhinoceros tossing a large cat with its horn. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A rock cut image of Buddha at Bojjanakonda cave Monastery near Anakapalle in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh in India.

An image of the wine pithos at Tel Kabri's Area D-West in situ during the 2013 excavation. The pithos were excavated out after the photo and this storage room is now covered over for conservation purposes. For purposes of the excavation...

Rock carved with an animal image from Dhuwayla in the northeastern desert, Jordan, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 6900-6500 BCE. Over a hundred stones with rock carvings were discovered in a small seasonal hunting camp in the desert. The majority...