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The Mongol Scroll, aka the 'Illustrated Account of the Mongol Invasion of Japan.' Commissioned by Takezaki Suenaga, a samurai warrior who fought during the Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281 CE, the painted scroll was produced in...

Philip the Fair (r. 1285-1314 CE), Saint-Denis Basilica.

Pope Boniface VIII (served 1294-1303 CE). Fresco by Giotto di Bondone, c. 1300 CE. Archbasilica of St. John in Lateran.

Pope Boniface VIII (served 1294-1303 CE). Statue by Arnolfo di Cambio, c. 1298 CE. Museo dell'Opera, Florence.

Icon of Aelia Eudocia from the church of Lips monastery (Fenari Isa Mosque), Fatih, Istanbul.

Saint Paula Teaching her Nuns, mid-17th century CE, by André Reinoso. Currently in the Monastery of the Hieronymites (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos), in Lisbon, Portugal.

Fresco in Saviour Cathedral of Chernihiv, Ukraine

Faltonia Proba teaching the history of the world since the Creation through her Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi. Miniature from a 15th-century CE manuscript of the De mulieribus claris by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Samurai facemask and armour from the Sengoku period (Warring States Period), 1467-1568 CE. (Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, Dallas, USA)

The Karamon Gate of Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan. The castle was first built in 1603 CE by the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (r. 1603-1605 CE)