Images

Marble head of Titus Flavius Orestes, from Herakleia Lynkestis, near Bitola, North Macedonia, c. 1st-2nd century CE. Archaeological Museum of Heraclea, Bitola. The marble head was located in the colonnaded courthouse near the city's forum...

Bronze figurine of infant Hercules killing serpents, from Herakleia Lynkestis, near modern Bitola, Macedonia. Archaeological Museum of Heraclea, Bitola. The city was founded by Philip II of Macedon (r. 359-336 BC) following his defeat of...

The Raven Flood Totem, Alaska. National Archives and Records Administration. According to the NARA description: "The raven circle at the top represents heaven. The legend is that the raven at flood time flew up to heaven with children in...

Common raven of North America (corvus corax principalis) in flight. Photograph taken at Muir Beach in Northern California by Christian O. Petersen, 2008.

Former US president John Quincy Adams, daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady, c. 1840s. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (1775-1852), wife of President John Quincy Adams, First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829, oil on canvas portrait by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1820s. White House, Washington, D.C.

John Quincy Adams as secretary of state; oil on panel by Gilbert Stuart, 1818. White House, Washington, D.C.

John Quincy Adams, a copy by Southworth & Hawes of a lost original daguerreotype by Philip Haas, c. 1843. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

John Quincy Adams as he looked at the age of 29, oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, 1796. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

A 1951 photograph of Thor Herydahl (1914-2002), leader of the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition when he and five others crossed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft. Library of Congress.