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A statue of the Greek goddess Athena from the Library of Pergamon. 200-150 BCE. Height: 310.5 cm. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin)

The Hanseatic League (c. 13th–17th centuries) was a powerful network of merchant guilds and cities that dominated trade across northern Europe for centuries. Emerging in the late Middle Ages, the League united towns from Lübeck, Hamburg...

The body of Patroclus is lifted by Menelaus and Meriones while Odysseus and others look on (Etruscan relief, 2nd century BCE).

Patroclus on an antique fresco in Pompeii.

Japanese screen depicting the Battle of Sekigahara, late Edo era (19th century). The City of Gifu Museum of History.

Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-1651). Okayama Prefectural Museum.

Assembly in the Desert, painting by Jeanne Lombard, 1934.

Commemorative plaque of the first synod in the Désert at Montèzes near Monoblet, organized by Antoine Court in 1715.

A depiction of Croesus (r. 560-546 BCE), the King of Lydia on a Greek red-figure pottery vase. Lydia was a region in western Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and was so wealthy that the expression "as rich as Croesus" originates in reference...

The rise and expansion of the Carolingian dynasty (8th–early 9th centuries CE) reached its apex under Charlemagne (reigned 768–814 CE), son of Pepin the Short (reigned 751–768 CE) and grandson of Charles Martel (d. 741 CE). Building on earlier...