Images

Man preparing the soil to plant, photograph by Emmanuel Eslava, Mexico, 23 September 2015. A man prepares the land of a chinampa for sowing. The chinampa raised farming technique can be identified by the posts that separate the arable land...

Axolotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577. An axolotl, which was described by the accompanying Spanish textual gloss as a meal fit for the nobility. Described...

Cintli, ink on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577. A depiction of a maize plant, one of the staple crops of the Aztec peoples of Mexico. The image shows the structural details...

Atlalli, ink on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Mexico, 1577. A farmer in Mexico cultivates irrigated land. Water has a swirling texture while the land is sparsely decorated with wisps...

Huexotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Book 11, folio 144v, Mexico, 1577. A willow tree, known as huexotl in Nahuatl, grows from a body of curling blue water. Simple...

Pella curse tablet, lead scroll, first half of the 4th century BCE. Writing and dedicating a curse tablet (katadesmos) was an act of practical magic in the Greco-Roman world. Curse tablets were fragmental sheets of lead—or, in rare instances...

Map of Medieval Wales by Owj20.

Family tree of Owain Gwynedd, limited for clarity and relevance, illustration by Liam Groves.

Owain Gwynedd, oil on canvas, Hugh Williams, 1909. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

San Antonio de Bexar movie set built in Bracketville, Texas for the filming of The Alamo (1960), starring John Wayne. Photograph by Betsy Mark, 2004. Figure in photo is Emily Mark, age 9.