Images

Sasanian copper dish from the village of Khinisly (not far from Shamakhi town). National Museum of History, Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Missouri River. Photo taken by Hans Andersen in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA in 2004 from the vantage point of the The Meriwether Restaurant looking toward the north. The photo resonates in the line from the Cheyenne legend Old Woman's...

A 1942 photograph showing British soldiers in greatcoats keeping warm in the freezing desert night in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1941 colourised photograph of a member of the Deutsche Afrika Korps (DAK) wrapped up against invasive sand in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A July 1941 photograph showing a South African desert patrol in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1941 photograph of a British soldier giving a haircut to a comrade in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1942 photograph of a British tank regiment soldier shaving in the desert in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A July 1940 photograph of British soldiers with an armoured car in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Portable icon of the Virgin and Child of the Eleousa type, the Virgin of Tenderness, miniature mosaic made of many tiny tesserae (mosaic stones), set in wood, early 14th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Late antique icon of the enthroned Virgin holding the child Christ and surrounded by the archangels Michael and Gabriel, labeled with Greek inscriptions. Woven tapestry made of colorful wool, from Egypt, dated to the 6th century. In the...