Images

Bukelon Fortress ruins, Thrace (modern-day Bulgaria), ruins from the 12-14th century CE. This site was mentioned in reports from the Battle of Adrianople in the 4th century CE.

Silver stater from Aegina, 4th century BCE. O: Tortoise, R: Incuse square. (Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection, Kerkyra, Corfu)

Macedonian gold stater, 359-336 BCE. Obverse: Apollo Reverse: Charioteer Alpha Bank Numismatics Collection, Kerkyra, Corfu.

Silver tetradrachm, Knossos, Crete. 2nd-1st century BCE. O: Zeus, R: Labyrinth. (Alpha Bank Numismatics Collection, Kerkyra, Corfu)

Silver tetradrachm from Eretria Euboea, c. 485 BCE. O: Cow, R: Octopus in incuse square. (Alpha Bank Numismatics Collection, Kerkyra, Corfu)

Silver Stater from Corinth, 386-307 BCE. Obverse: Pegasus, Reverse: Athena. Alpha Bank Numismatics Collection, Kerkyra, Corfu.

Athenian silver tetradrachm, depicting Athena on the obverse and an owl with an olive branch on the reverse, 479-454 BCE. Alpha Bank Numismatics Collection, Kerkyra, Corfu.

Silver decadrachm from Syracuse, Sicily, c. 400 BCE. O: Quadriga with Nike crowning a charioteer. R: Head of Arethousa with dolphins. (Alpha Bank Numismatics Collection, Kerkyra, Corfu)

Map of Europe in 400 CE

A polychrome urn with a jaguar figure and skulls. Classic Maya, 600-900 CE, Guatemala. (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)