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16th-century CE edition of Ovid's Tristia from Venice. Penn Libraries, Rare Book Collection

Statue of Ovid in Constanta, Romania, where he spent his later years in exile.

Bering Land Bridge Natural Preserve. Many parts of this area look similar to how it may have looked when the first humans arrived there, perhaps around 30,000 years ago. From there on, early humans may have crossed...

Entrance to Skhul Cave, Israel. Here and at the neighbouring site of Qafzeh, Homo sapiens burials have been dated to between around 90,000 and 130,000 years ago.

This map illustrates the early global migrations of Homo sapiens—our species’ remarkable journey from Africa to every inhabitable continent. Tracing movements that began over hundreds of thoussands of years ago, it...

Map showing fossil sites of Homo heidelbergensis and early Neanderthals.

A herd of woolly mammoths, as depicted by Charles R. Knight.

The 1642 CE Konponchudo, main hall of the Buddhist Enryakuji temple on Mount Hiei, Japan. The building stands on the site of the original shrine built by Saicho, also known as Dengyo Daishi, (767-822 CE), the monk and scholar...

Saicho, also known as Dengyo Daishi, (767-822 CE) was a monk and scholar who founded the Buddhist Tendai Sect in Japan.

Tomb of Bede the Venerable, Durham Cathedral.