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This painted incense container is made from cut stone and dates from c. 600-900 CE. Maya artisans created it in what is present-day Guatemala during the Classical era. (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels)

This statue was made from cut stone during the Classical era in Mayan history (250-900 CE). It depicts either a Mayan god or goddess or perhaps even a priest. It was made in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. (Musée...

This fragment of a mosaic comes from an ancient cathedral that was once located in Apamea, Syria. Apamea, located on the right bank of the Orontes River, was an ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine city. This mosaic...

A map of the Byzantine empire and its themes and provinces in 717 CE.

A gold solidus coin depicting Constantine V, emperor of the Byzantine empire between 741 and 775 CE (right) and Leo III (r. 685-741 CE)

Fresco from Herculaneum depicting a Roman banquet. Currently located in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli; accession number (inv. 9024); affresco da Ercolano, IV stile pompeiano (50-79 CE).

Imaginary portrait of Apicius, famous for his Roman cookbook De Re Coquinaria, from Alexis Soyer's 'Pantropheon'.

1541 CE manuscript of Apicius' De Re Coquinaria - a Roman cookbook - here named De Re Culinaria.

The Tjängvide image stone dating to the Viking Age found in Gotland, Sweden and probably showing Odin on his horse Sleipnir (or otherwise a dead man arriving at Odin's hall of Valhalla) on the middle-right.

The god Odin from Norse Mythology, sitting on his throne accompanied by his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, and his wolves, Geri and Freki, illustration from page 7 of Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden by Wilhelm Wägner, Otto Spamer, Leipzig...