Images

Papyrus Anastasi VII; sheet 1, New Kingdom copy of the Satire of the Trades.

A 17th century CE artist's rendition of David inscribing one of his famous psalms. By Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino).

An image of the ancient manuscript of the Gospel of John known as P52, or Papyrus 52. This is currently not only the oldest known manuscript of the Gospel of John, but the earliest known manuscript of the entire New Testament in general...

This is an image of the city gate of the ancient Judean and fortified city known as Khirbet Qeiyafa, primarily excavated by Sa'ar Ganor and Yosef Garfinkel. 11th-8th century BCE.

The Mesha Stele is an ancient tablet dating to around 850 BCE, written by Mesha, the king of Moab (modern Jordan). (Louvre Museum, Paris)

Embalmed female mummy, c. 1000 BCE. Inside Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Here is a disfigured sarcophagus lid dating back to the 26th Dynasty of Ptolemaic Egypt (664 - 30 BCE). It is now part of the Inside Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Based on Jones & Mattingly's Atlas of Roman Britain; Mattingly's Imperial Possession; Higham's Rome, Britain, and the Anglo-Saxons; Frere's Britannia; and Snyder's An Age of Tyrants.

Detail from Lambeth Palace Library MS 6 folio 43v illustrating an episode in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Unknown illustrator, c. 15th century CE.

Merlin reads his prophecies to King Vortigern. British Library MS Cotton Claudius B VII f.224, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetiae Merlini. Unknown illustrator, c. 1250-1270 CE.