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The frontispiece to Leviathan by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) which was published in 1651. Engraving by Abraham Bosse.

Grave goods from the richest burial at Vani (located in the Imereti region of Georgia), dated to about 450 BCE. Grave 11, contained four bodies inside a wooden structure: a woman, distinguished by the richness of her personal ornaments...

A three-nozzled bronze lamp featuring the god Zeus in the form of an eagle, carrying the boy Ganymede off to Mount Olympus to be his cupbearer. When the lamp was lit, the beautiful youth would gleam, and the divine bird would be encircled...

Bronze anthropomorphic figurine with hands stretched forward in an adorant position, discovered face downward inside a sacred structure at Vani, Georgia, dated to the 3rd century BCE. Adorned with gold jewellery (torque, bracelets...

Ceremonial twelve-stepped altar from the last phase of activity at the Colchian settlement of Vani (250-50 BCE). The altar is composed of a platform and an adjoining staircase made of six rectangular and six semicircular steps. Such altars...

Frederick North, Lord North (1732-1792), Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782, oil on canvas portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1773-74. National Portrait Gallery, London, England.

Ferney, the home of the author Voltaire (1694-1778) from 1759 until his death. It is located near the French border with Switzerland.

An oil on canvas portrait of the French author and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778). Painted by Nicolas de Largillière between 1718 and 1724. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)

A map illustrating the travels of the English polymath (astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, and meteorologist, …) Edmond Halley (1656–1742) during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. From his earlier voyage on an East India Company...

Anne of Austria (l. 1601-1666) with her two sons Louis XIV of France (r. 1643-1715) and Philippe, Duke of Orléans (l. 1640-1701), oil on canvas by an unknown artist, between 1641-1650. Palace of Versailles.