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This basket made of wickerwork dates from c. 1100-800 BCE and comes from a former pile-dwelling settlement near Zürich, Switzerland. (Landesmuseum, Zürich).

This collection of rich Alemanni grave goods dates from c. 550 CE, and it was found on Bäckerstrasse in what is present-day Zurich, Switzerland. Of particular note are the bird-shaped brooches made of gold with almadine (gemstone) inlay...

Bowl, gold. c. 1100 BCE. Zurich-Altstetten. Canton of Zurich. With images of stags and does grazing under round suns and crescent moons, this heavy vessel made of pure gold depicts both heaven and earth. It was buried by a farming community...

Part II The Battle of the Washita may have ended by sunset on November 27th, 1868, but there was much more to this fight than one deadly day. Custer and the Seventh Cavalry would take 53 Cheyenne women and children captive. This campaign...

A 1900-04 oil on canvas, Houses of Parliament, Sunset, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. Monet painted a whole series of views of London's Houses of Parliament in order to capture a wide variety of atmospheric...

View of the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibiton at the National Museum Zurich from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025. Copyright: Swiss National Museum. Used with permission (Press release).

Figurines depicting the sale of an enslaved person. Menschenhandel, manufactory Kilchberg-Schooren, around 1775, painted porcelain. On display at the National Museum Zurich in the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibition from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025...

Bodies in the Middle Ages exhibition in the Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich.

The Sioux are a native North American nation who inhabited the Great Plains region of, roughly, modern Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. They are one of the many nations referred to as Plains Indians who...

The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal made in 1803, in which the United States purchased 828,000 square miles (2,144,510 km²) of land west of the Mississippi River from France for $15 million, or an average of three cents per acre. The purchase...