Images

Tomb of Saint Columbanus (543-615 CE), in Bobbio Abbey, Italy.

A c. 1720 portrait of James II of England’s exiled son James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), also known as the Old Pretender since he claimed the crown of Great Britain which had since passed on to the House of Hanover and George I of...

This map illustrates the expansion of the United States from the Treaty of Paris (1783) to the mid-19th century, a period in which the young republic transformed from thirteen coastal states into a nation spanning the breadth of North America...

A c. 1714 painting of George I of Great Britain (r. 1714-1727) by Godfrey Kneller. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

A 1720s painting of George I of Great Britain (r. 1714-1727) by Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine. (Royal Collection, UK)

Medea about to Murder Her Children, oil on canvas by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix. 1862. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Jason and Medea, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1907. Private collection.

Medea flying on her chariot, red-figure calyx-krater (mixing vessel), South Italian, Lucanian, c. 400 BCE. Cleveland Museum of Art.

The long-term development of Mesopotamia traces one of the earliest and most influential trajectories in world history, spanning from small Stone Age settlements (c. 10,000 BCE) to the political and cultural upheavals of the Late Bronze Age...

An 1848 lithograph by James Rattray of the Jugdulluk Pass. The pass had to be negotiated during the notorious retreat from Kabul in 1842 by the East India Company army. (British Library, London)