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An early 20th-century illustration showing the death of King Philip, aka Metacom (l. 1638-1676) who led a coalition of Native American tribes in King Philip’s War (aka Metacom’s War, 1675-1678) against English colonists.

A bronze figurine of the Celtic deity Sequana, a healing goddess, regarded perhaps as the personification of the River Seine. From her sanctuary at the source of the river near Dijon. (Archaeological Museum of Dijon, France)

A reconstruction of a Celtic burial mound from the Hallstatt culture of Austria and central Europe in the 1st millennium BCE. (German National Museum, Nuremberg)

Philip, King of Mount Hope, line engraving depicting Metacom (also known as King Philip, l. 1638-1676), colored by hand, by the American engraver and silversmith Paul Revere, illustration from page 88 of The Entertaining History of King Philip's...

Mummy of the Ukok Princess or Princess of the Altai, one of the Pazyryk burials, dating from the 5th century BCE, found in a kurgan in the remote Ukok Plateau in the Altai Republic in Russia in 1993. Republican National Museum, Gorno-Altaisk...

The figure of the Indians' fort or palizado in New England and the manner of the destroying it by Captayne Underhill and Captayne Mason / RH., engraving showing the Mystic Massacre of 1637, illustration in Nevves from America by John Underhill...

Lieut. Lion Gardiner Attacked by "Pequot" Indians at Saybrook Fort 22 Feb 1637, watercolor on paper by Charles Stanley Reinhart, 1890. Previously at the Manor House in Gardiner Island. Photo taken in July 2007 at an exhibit by the East Hampton...

Three strings of wampum beads, made by Native Americans, c. 1600-1900. The British Museum, London.

Illustration of El Cid's (1043-1099 CE) men plundering the Iberian countryside by Zvonimir Grbasic. Courtesy of Medieval Warfare Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.

Illustration of the Battle of Costagnaro (1387 CE) by Zvonimir Grbasic. Courtesy of Medieval Warfare Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.