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Two detached folios from the Baburnama - the book of Babur which tells the life story of the Emperor Babur (1483-1530) who founded the Mughal Empire in 1526. The left folio shows ascetics at a shrine while on the right is a ceremony where...

Babur (1483-1540) who fled Ferghana in present day Uzbekistan to found the Mughal Empire in 1526, receives Uzbek and Rajput envoys. These envoys are offering their congratulations following Babur's accession to the throne. This is a detached...

Chief Little Raven (Hosa, l. c. 1810-1889) of the Southern Arapaho. Little Raven was among the 'peace chiefs' who, with Chief Black Coal (l. c. 1840-1893) of the Northern Arapaho, tried to maintain peaceful relations with the US government...

Left to right: The Hamzanama is one of the most famous illustrated manuscripts of Mughal painting. It depicts stories from the life of Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib (c. 569–625) who was the uncle of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The book was commissioned...

A group of four blue bulls feed in scrubland near a pond, while four imperial huntsmen are hiding behind camouflage screens. In the distance there is a hunting party with elephants, horses, and flags. The other side of this page of...

Chief Black Coal (Wo’óoseinee’, l. c. 1840-1893) of the Northern Arapaho. Black Coal was among the 'peace chiefs' of the Arapaho who, along with others such as Chief Little Raven (l. c. 1810-1889) of the Southern Arapaho, tried to maintain...

A painting of Aurangzeb (1618-1707), sixth Mughal emperor. Here he is accompanied by a royal hunting party. The preparations for the hunt include several hunters in the foreground, camouflage screens, and a deer being led as a bait...

Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862) was the twentieth Mughal Emperor of Hindustan. The Mughal Empire ended with him during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. Zafar was a celebrated poet and Sufi mystic who was exiled to Rangoon by the British East India...

A female North American badger at the Oxbow Zollman Zoo in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA. Photograph by Jonathunder, 2007. Badgers often feature in Native American tales, myths, and legends such as Badger-Woman from the Arapaho.

This map illustrates North and Sub-Saharan Africa during the 16th century, as described by Johannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, c. 1494–c. 1554) in his 1526 book Cosmographia et Geographia de Africa. This...