Queen mother of the west: Did you mean...?

This video documentary aims to prove that China had contact with the Western world of ancient Greece far earlier than previously suggested. Using the Terracotta Army as their visual template, these scientists work to find further evidence...

This sculpture represents a sacred boat on a sledge. It included a seated figure of Queen Mutemwia, wife of Thutmose IV. Only her legs and right hand remained intact, but part of the head is also in the British Museum. Mutemwia clasps a looped...

Queen of the Night, a large plaque made of baked straw-tempered clay, modelled in high relief. From southern Iraq, Old Babylonian period, 1800-1750 BCE. The figure of the curvaceous naked woman was originally painted red. She wears the horned...

A model of the Queen Anne's Revenge. The ship was originally used for the transportation of slaves but was captured and converted into a 40-cannon pirate ship by Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718). (North Carolina Museum of History)

An 1846 family portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter showing Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901), Albert, Prince Consort, and their then five children. (Royal Collection)

A photograph showing King Geroge VI (r. 1936-52) and Queen Elisabeth visiting the bomb damage at Buckingham Palace during the London Blitz, September 1940. (Imperial War Museums)

A c. 1578 CE portrait by Nicholas Haillard of Mary, Queen of Scots (r. 1542-1567 CE). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

An illustration of Queen Guinevere about to burnt at the stake for adultery, by Sir W. Russell Flint (1880 - 1969 CE). From a 1927 CE edition of Thomas Malory's (c. 1415 - 1471 CE) Le Morte D'Arthur. Courtesy of the University of Rochester's...

A c. 1685 oil-on-canvas portrait of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (r. 1702-1714) when she was Princess of Denmark. Painting by Jan van der Vaart and Willem Wissing. The princess is here 18 years of age and is enveloped in luxurious textiles...

Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots (r. 1542-1567) and her son James I of England (r. 1603-1625). Painted in 1583. (Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland)