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Feast of Attila by Mor Than, 1870 CE, now in the Hungarian National Gallery. In this scene, visitors stand before Attila and his guests, singing songs that they have composed. Attila in at the center of the composition, it is thought that...

Map showing the empire of Attila the Hun c. 450 CE.

A newly discovered partially broken tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh: "the episode of the journey of Gilgamesh and Enkidu." According to Professor Farouk Al-Rawi (of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), this...

This tablet contains a list of goods. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. Early dynastic period, 3rd millennium BCE. The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq.

Detail of Attila from the romanticist painting Attila and his Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts (1838-1847) by Eugene Delacroix. Palais Bourbon, Paris (France).

The Caracol or Observatory of Chichen Itza, Mexico. Constructed prior to 800 CE, this Maya building was used as an astronomical observatory, especially of Venus.

The Temple of the Warriors at the Maya-Toltec city of Chichen Itza, Mexico. Built between 800 and 1050 CE, the three-level pyramid is so called because of the colonnade of carved warrior and gift-bearer columns on its two sides.

A map of the principal monuments of the Maya-Toltec city Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, c. 750-1200 CE.

The "Osterby Man" was found in a peat bog in 1948 near Osterby, Germany, and has been dated to between 75 and 130 CE. He sports a Suebian knot, a hairstyle associated with the Suebi (Alemanni). State Archaeological Museum at Gottorf...

The last remaining wall (Wall of the Saracens) of the Vasso Galate, temple to the god Mercury, Clermont-Ferrand, France. The temple was destroyed by Chrocus, probably c. 256 CE.