Images

Funerary stele for a murmillo gladiator called Chrisampelos, 2nd century CE. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.

A bronze gynaecological instrument, Roman, 1st century CE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

A map showing the areas controlled by different members of Rome's Second Triumvirate of Lepidus (Brown), Octavian (Purple), and Mark Antony (Green) in the 1st century BCE. The light red areas indicate shared control.

A 42 BCE gold aureus coin depicting Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, member of the Second Triumvirate alongside Mark Antony and Octavian (Augustus).

A relief from the tomb of Pharaoh Amenemhet I, El-Lisht, 12th Dynasty. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

The remaining columns of the Hellenistic period gymnasium, Kos.

The Roman-built temple of Apollo in the Asclepeion sanctuary of Kos, 2nd century CE.

The restored Roman Odeion of Kos, 1st-2nd century CE.

An artist's impression of what a fallen Greek hoplite may have looked like.

Chinese beauty Yang Guifei, consort of the Tang emperor Xuanzong (AD 685-762), playing the flute, seated alone on an elaborate Chinese-style throne, surrounded by flowering trees and peonies in open mountain landscape. Japanese painting from...