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Zorats Church is a church built on a hill overlooking the Yeghegis River in present-day Armenia. The church was built in the early 14th century CE and dedicated by Bishop Stepanos Tarsayitch who was a grandson of an Orbelian prince. Armenia...

This is the backside of the Zorats Church. The Zorats Church is a church built on a hill overlooking the Yeghegis River in present-day Armenia. The church was built in the early 14th century CE and dedicated by Bishop Stepanos Tarsayitch...

Surrounding the Zorats Church in what's present-day Armenia are a number of exquisitely carved khachkars dating to the 10th-13th centuries CE and tombstones dating from the 15-17th centuries CE.

Surrounding the Zorats Church in what's present-day Armenia are a number of exquisitely carved khachkars dating to the 10th-13th centuries CE and tombstones dating from the 15-17th centuries CE.

Zorats Church is a church built on a hill overlooking the Yeghegis River in present-day Armenia. The church was built in the early 14th century and dedicated by Bishop Stepanos Tarsayitch, who was the grandson of an Orbelian prince. Armenia...

Mosaic from the Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul (previously Constantinople), Turkey, depicting Zoe, empress of the Byzantine Empire from 1028-1050 CE. She was the daughter of Constantine VIII (r. 1025-1028 CE).

Depiction of Byzantine Empress Irene, the wife of Emperor John II (r. 1118-1143 CE) as found in the Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul (previously Constantinople), Turkey.

Artist's impression of what Hasdrubal Barca (c. 244-207 BCE), the Carthaginian general, may have looked like, as depicted in the computer game Total War: ARENA.

Antigone Pouring a Libation over the Corpse of Her Brother Polynices by William Henry Rinehart, 1870 CE, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Painting by Sebastien Norblin, 1825 CE, Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.