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Bering Land Bridge Natural Preserve. Many parts of this area look similar to how it may have looked when the first humans arrived there, perhaps around 30,000 years ago. From there on, early humans may have crossed to the Americas by around...

Entrance to Skhul Cave, Israel. Here and at the neighbouring site of Qafzeh, Homo sapiens burials have been dated to between around 90,000 and 130,000 years ago.

This map illustrates the early global migrations of Homo sapiens ("thinking man"), one of the most remarkable movements in human history. Beginning with small groups venturing out of ancestral Africa, these early humans spread across continents...

Map showing fossil sites of Homo heidelbergensis and early Neanderthals.

A herd of woolly mammoths, as depicted by Charles R. Knight.

The 1642 CE Konponchudo, main hall of the Buddhist Enryakuji temple on Mount Hiei, Japan. The building stands on the site of the original shrine built by Saicho, also known as Dengyo Daishi, (767-822 CE), the monk and scholar who founded...

Saicho, also known as Dengyo Daishi, (767-822 CE) was a monk and scholar who founded the Buddhist Tendai Sect in Japan.

Tomb of Bede the Venerable, Durham Cathedral.

This beautifully engraved title page from a 1612 edition of the collected works of St. Bede contains a wonderfully stern admonition pasted onto to it at the bottom that threatens excommunication for anyone who might misappropriate the book.

Illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscript, a near contemporary copy of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg.