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Bronze coin minted in Berytus, showing Augustus on one side and two aquilae between two standards on the back. The obverse inscription reads Imperator Caesar Augustus, the reverse Publius Quinctilius Varus.

The full Moon.

As Lugdunum I (RIC 230), head of Augustus (r. 27 BCE - 14 CE), countermarked "VAR" (Varus).

A 6th century CE mosaic depicting Emperor Justinian and his court in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.

A 6th century CE mosaic depicting Empress Theodora and her court in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.

General view of the interior of the mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna with her sarcophagus in the middle. Galla Placidia (388-450 CE) was the daughter of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

The ruins of the Temple of Artemis in Sardis in Lydia (modern-day western Turkey), originally built by the Greeks in 300 BCE and later renovated by the Romans in the 2nd century CE. The Temple of Artemis in Sardis was the fourth largest Ionic...

King Tang of Shang Dynasty as imagined by Song Dynasty painter Ma Lin. Hanging scroll, color on silk. Size 249.2 x 111.4 cm (height x width). Painting is located in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Oracle bone from the reign of King Wu Ding (late Shang dynasty).

A wooden coffin shaped in the form of a Nile bolti fish and containing the mummified remains of a fish. Dynasty XXX-XXXI, 4th century BCE. (Egytpian Museum, Turin)