Images

Artist's impression of an earthquake in ancient Greece or Rome.

Artist's impression of a poisoning in ancient times.

Artist's impression of the Cothon, the harbour of ancient Carthage.

Artist's impression of a scene at a medieval bazaar. In the Middle East and North Africa, the bazaar was not only a marketplace but also a center of city life.

Sugar processing display, Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam Open-Air Museum, Suriname.

Laurel Valley is the largest 19th- and 20th-century sugar plantation in the United States. Many original structures built in the 19th century survive. Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.

Sugar cane.

The Mill Yard, part of the series Ten Views in the Island of Antigua by William Clark. Originally published/produced in Thomas Clay: London, 1823. British Library.

Funerary horse decorations. 3rd Century BCE. Associated with the Paryzyk culture, Russia. (Amsterdam Hermitage)

The Pazyryk burials are a series of Iron Age Scythian tombs in the Ukok Plateau, Siberia. The tombs are dated to between the 4th and 3rd Century BCE.