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A glass bead bracelet from the Yayoi Period in Japan, 5th century BCE to 3rd century CE. (Tokyo National Museum)

A Jomon stone figurine or gangu. Komukai, Nanbu-cho, Aomori, Japan. Jomon Period, 1000-400 BCE. (Tokyo National Musuem)

A Jomon clay mask or domen. Kidukuri, Kamegaoka, Tsugaru-shi, Aomori, Japan. Jomon Period, 1000-400 BCE. Important Cultural Property. (Tokyo National Museum)

A Jomon incised vase. Jomon Period, 1000-400 BCE, Japan. (Tokyo National Museum)

A Jomon incense burner. Rokugo Ishinadate, Misato-cho, Akita, Japan. Jomon Period, 1000-400 BCE. (Tokyo National Museum)

A Jomon vase, Japan. Jomon Period, 4000-3000 BCE. (Tokyo National Museum)

King Arthur at the Great Hall, Winchester. 16th-century painting of King Arthur on the Round Table, believed to bear the face of Henry VIII who commissioned the repainting.

Tintern Station, Gwent, Circle of Legends.

Geoffrey of Monmouth was the first to create a complete work on the story of King Arthur in his History of the Kings of Britain. Tintern Station, Gwent, The Cirle of Legends.

Miniature of King Arthur, holding a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Virgin and Child. 14th-century CE manuscript from England. Peter of Langtoft and others: Drawings with various inscriptions, distichs and...