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Reconstructed Viking Age (c. 790-1100 CE) farm in Avaldsnes, Norway, including main longhouse and various outbuildings.

Two Viking Age oval brooches - also known as tortoise brooches - which were used in a practical way by women to pin up the straps of their overdresses but were often decorated. They came in pairs - one for each dress strap - and are often...

Reconstructions of Viking Age clothing as found on display at the Archaeological Museum in Stavanger, Norway. The woman is wearing a white shift or underdress, a red overdress (hangerock or smokkr) and two characteristically Viking oval brooches...

Meeting between Emperor John Tzimiskes (r. 969-976 CE) and Sviatoslav I of Kiev (r. 945-972 CE) in the Madrid Skylitzes, fol. 172rb.

Capture of Aleppo by the Byzantines under Nikephoros Phokas in 962 CE. History of John Skylitzes - Skyllitzes Matritensis (Biblioteca Nacional de España)

Sayf al-Dawla (r. 945-967 CE)at his court History of John Skylitzes - Skyllitzes Matritensis (Biblioteca Nacional de España)

Medieval illumination representing Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor (963-969 CE).

A 19th century CE painting by Jean-Joseph Dassy of Robert of Normandy at the Siege of Antioch, 1097-8 CE during the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE).

Phaedra and Hippolytus, late 2nd-3rd century CE House of Dionysus, Paphos Archaeological Park, Cyprus

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) Red-figure, Greek, South Italian, Campanian, Late Classical Date: c. 330–310 BCE, attributed to the Ixion Painter On the body, obverse: Hippolytus, attendant, and Phaedra, with a Fury above Reverse: two...