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A long barrow is a class of Middle Neolithic (approximately 3500-2700 BCE) burial monument which is found extensively throughout the British Isles and is related to other forms of contemporary tomb-building traditions of north-western Europe...

The process of determining ethnicity is a problematic venture, even more so when interpreted through the archaeological record. Despite this issue, evidence, such as the four-room house, has been preserved that can be interpreted to represent...

This image shows the Bateshwar group of Hindu temples built during the 8th and 10th centuries CE by the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty (8th century CE - 11th century CE) of northern India. In total there are about 200 temples spread over an...

Plaster copy of the Laocoön group. Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam, (APM 16.097). The sculpture was shown in this way for four centuries. Laocoön's outstretched arm, the arm of the younger son and parts of the snake are early-modern...

A detail from the Laocoön group, showing the anguished expression on the face of Laocoön's younger son, Thymbraeus. A Roman copy made after a Hellenistic original from c. 200 BCE.

Artist's impression of the Laocoön group based on the reconstruction of the original composition suggested by Seymour Howard.

The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland as portrayed in the movie Zwingli (2019). © Ascot Elite Entertainment Group

A coin minted during the reign of Magas of Cyrene, showing the silphium plant, c. 300-282 or 275 BCE. Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

A silver coin of Ezana I (r. c. 303-350 CE), king of the African kingdom of Axum (1st-8th century CE) on the coast of the Red Sea (modern Ethiopia & Eritrea). Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

A gold hyperpyron coin of Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081-1118 CE). The coin was introduced in 1092 CE and shows Christ on the obverse and Alexios on the reverse. (Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com)