Images

The tomb of King Aethelstan (r. 924-939) in Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, England. There is nothing in the tomb beneath the statue, the relics of the king having been lost in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.

A May 1944 photograph of women prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Poland which was set up by the SS to murder those identified as enemies of Nazi Germany, especially Jewish people.

The coyote (canis latrans), the animal on which many Native American myths are based. Photograph attributed to George Harrison of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2007.

Anthropomorphic Coyote trickster, from North American Indigenous mythology, canoeing up the river. Illustration from page 84 of Indian Days of the Long Ago by F. N. Wilson and Edward S. Curtis, Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company, 1915.

Demonstration in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, 11 December 1978. Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies.

Ayatollah Khomeini, photo by Sharok Hatami, 1979. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Demonstration of 8 September 1978 during the Iranian Revolution. Islamic Revolution Document Center.

Reza Shah Pahlavi (r. 1925-1941) and his son and successor Mohammad Reza (r. 1941-1979) in Persepolis, c. 1939.

The official portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (r. 1941-1979) from 1973.

Representatives of the first Iranian Majlis (parliament) in front of the military academy, which served as the first parliament building, Tehran, 1906. National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, World Digital Library.