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The interior of the Byzantine fortress of Petra Justiniana on the Black Sea in modern-day Georgia near Batumi. As the name suggests, it was built by Emperor Justinian I in 535 CE. The interior of the fortress includes the ruins of a Byzantine...

The First Continental Congress, held by delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies of North America from 5 September to 26 October 1774. The mural depicts Patrick Henry delivering a speech during the Congress at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia...

A political cartoon meant to protest the Intolerable Acts of 1774; it depicts a Mohawk woman, representing America, held down and force-fed tea by a man labeled as 'the Boston Port Act'. From Emmet Collection of Manuscripts Etc. Relating...

Archaeopolis is a Byzantine city-fortress in ancient Lazica (Colchis) in modern-day western Georgia commanding the junction of the River Tekhuri and a strategic route to the north. Archaeopolis played a pivotal part in the 6th-century CE...

A statue in Langres, France of the author and philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784).

A forensic facial reconstruction of Sophia Palaiologina (Palaeologus) by Sergey Nikitin, 1994.

Portrait of Ivan IV, oil on canvas by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Young Tsar Alexis (Alexei) Praying Before the Relics of Metropolitan Philip in the Presence of Patriarch Nikon, oil on canvas by Alexander Litovchenko, 1886. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

The ivory throne of Tsar Ivan IV The Terrible of Russia (r. 1547-1584). Kremlin Museums, Moscow.

A 1767 oil on canvas portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo of the French author and philosopher Diderot (1713-1784). (Louvre Museum, Paris)