Images

Artist's vision of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) in a late Pleistocene landscape in northern Spain. Mammoths were hunted by prehistoric humans.

South island of Lake Turkana in Kenya, an area in which some of the earliest hominin (i.e. human species and their immediate ancestors) fossils and tools have been found.

Skull of Homo erectus found in Koobi Fora, Kenya, dated to ca. 1,8 million years old. (Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C.)

Skeleton of a cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) on display at the American Museum of Natural History. The cave bear lived in Europe during the Pleistocene and shared the stage with early humans up to around 24,000 years ago, when it went extinct.

The Fire of Rome, 18 July 64 AD' by Hubert Robert, 1733-1808 CE. (Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France)

An example of a Minoan Linear A tablet.

A 16th century CE engraving of Hipponax of Ephesus. ("Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " published by Guillaume Rouille)

A 17th century CE engraving of Xenophanes of Colophon, the Greek philosopher. (from Thomas Stanley's 'The History of Philosophy')

A marble bust of Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (r. 161-9 CE). From Tarraco, Spain. (Archaeological Museum, Tarragona, Spain)

A reconstruction of a Roman ship's anchor. Late Imperial period. (Archaeological Museum, Tarragona, Spain)