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A 16th century CE silk scroll depicting Fujiwara no Kamatari (614-669 CE) and his two sons, the founder of the powerful Fujiwara clan which dominated Japanese government during the Heian Period (794-1185 CE). (Los Angeles...

Tomb of Menna at Thebes, 18th Dynasty.

Papyrus Anastasi VII; sheet 1, New Kingdom copy of the Satire of the Trades.

Embalmed female mummy, c. 1000 BCE. Inside Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Here is a disfigured sarcophagus lid dating back to the 26th Dynasty of Ptolemaic Egypt (664 - 30 BCE). It is now part of the Inside Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Based on Jones & Mattingly's Atlas of Roman Britain; Mattingly's Imperial Possession; Higham's Rome, Britain, and the Anglo-Saxons; Frere's Britannia; and Snyder's An Age of Tyrants.

Detail from Lambeth Palace Library MS 6 folio 43v illustrating an episode in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Unknown illustrator, c. 15th century CE.

Merlin reads his prophecies to King Vortigern. British Library MS Cotton Claudius B VII f.224, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetiae Merlini. Unknown illustrator, c. 1250-1270 CE.

Europe during the most recent glacial, in which the ice sheets reached peak growth between c. 26.500 to c. 19,000 years ago. This is known as the Last Glacial Maximum. Sea levels were lower than today.

Tanaina Glacier in the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska.