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Bronze Hairpin Depicting 'Master of Animals', found in Luristan (central Zagros), c. 950 to c. 650 BCE. National Museum of Iran, Tehran, acc. no. 1459. Photo by Neda Tehrani (Baloot Noghrei) Long bronze hairpins crowned with a large disk...

Image of the Great Smoky Mountains of the Tennessee-North Carolina border, USA, once the home of the Cherokee nation.

A photograph of a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress over Schweinfurt, hit because of its ball-bearing factories in August and again in October 1943.

Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (388-450 CE), near San Vitale’s Basilica in Ravenna. The inside shows stunning mosaics, but it never saw the body it was built for (c. 425-450), because Galla Placidia was buried in the family mausoleum in Rome...

Dorothy Quincy Hancock Scott (1747-1830), wife of US Founding Father John Hancock, oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1772. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The famous signature of US Founding Father John Hancock, printed on a letter; this signature famously appears on the US Declaration of Independence. Restored by Jim S., 15 September 2011. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Thomas Hancock (1703-1764), a wealthy Boston merchant and founder of the firm House of Hancock; best known as the uncle of US Founding Father John Hancock. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, 1764-66. Harvard Art Museums.

Portrait of John Hancock (1737-1793), oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, c. 1770. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Gallery of the Château de Chenonceau, Loire Valley, France. The gallery was commissioned by Catherine de' Medici (1519-1599). The gallery is 197 feet long (60 m) and 19.7 feet wide (6 m), hosted many lavish parties and is likely to have impressed...

Drawing of the Château de Chenonceau, Loire Valley, France c. 1570, by architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (1510-1585). This drawing shows the château as Diane de Poitiers, (1500-1566) favourite of Henry II of France (r. 1547-1559) would...