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Map showing some of the Viking Age (c. 790-1100 CE) trade routes that existed in North-West Europe during this time. Among the places depicted are such major trading centres are Hededy, Ribe, Birka and Kaupang from Viking Scandinavia; York...

Two Viking Age oval brooches - also known as tortoise brooches - which were used in a practical way by women to pin up the straps of their overdresses but were often decorated. They came in pairs - one for each dress strap - and are often...

Site of the Viking trading centre of Hedeby, which flourished under the Danish Vikings from the 8th-11th centuries CE and lies in present-day northern Germany, near the city of Schleswig. Archaeological excavations are ongoing but the Hedeby...

Reconstructed Viking houses from the Viking Age trading centre of Hedeby (also known as Haithabu in German) in what used to be part of the Danish Vikings' territory. It now lies in Germany, near the city of Schleswig on the Jutland peninsula...

Title page of the first edition of the Zohar, Mantua, 1558 CE. Library of Congress.

Shabbatai Tzvi enthroned. Image from the Amsterdam Jewish publication Tikkun, depicting Sabbatai Zevi (Shabtai Tzvi) crowned as the messiah. Amsterdam, 1666 CE. Published in the 1901-1906 CE Jewish Encyclopedia.

Kabbalistic "Tree of life" with the ten Sefirot and the 22 Hebrew letters as they are presented in the Sefer Yetzirah.

Ten Sefirot on the Cordoba Synagogue's east wall, Spain.

The Vision of Ezekiel by Raphael, 1518. Pallazzo Pitti, Florence.

Spider Rock, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, USA. The canyon boasts 5,000 years of habitation, including the Ancestral Pueblan Culture from c. 700 CE.