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Silver plate with king hunting rams. Sassanian Empire, c. mid-5th–mid-6th century CE. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A relief showing the miracle of Sravasti, with the preaching Buddha depicted on a lotus throne, while Bodhisattvas are seen on either side. 2nd-3rd century CE. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

Via Egnatia was a major Roman road in the Balkans, stretching 1,120 kilometers (696 miles) from the Adriatic Sea in the west to the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara in the east. The western terminus is slightly uncertain, often marked in...

Silver plate with a full-length female figure standing in its center. She holds an arch above her head. Grapevines grow from the ends of the arch and fill the space around the figure. The female figure is interpreted by scholars as the Persian...

Silver tetradrachm of Roman proconsul Aulus Gabinius (d. 47 BCE). Minted at Seleucia in Pieria, 1st century BCE. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Four views of a Sassanian silver vessel with four female figures, from the Sassanian Empire (224-651 CE), modern-day Iran, c. 300-500 CE. Cleveland Museum of Art. The four female figures on the vessel may be interpreted as dancers or as...

Major Francis Dade's death on 28 December 1835 during the Dade Massacre (also known as the Dade Battle), illustration from A History of the United States by Jesse Olney, 1836.

Joshua Reed Giddings (l. 1795-1864), famous abolitionist, member of the US House of Representatives, and author, photographed by Matthew Brady, c. 1855-1864.

An 1870 illustration of US Army soldiers viewing remains at the Dade Massacre site of 1835, a battle won by the Seminoles of Florida and their allies.

A carriage full of corpses in an open wagon of the Dachau death train. The train consisted of almost 40 wagons, and contained between 2,000 and 3,000 bodies when discovered by the U.S. military forces in the spring of 1945. Dachau was a Nazi...