Images

Attic red-figure cup (kylix) depicting an athlete ready to throw the javelin, from Vulci (Italy), around 440/430 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin).

Pliny the Elder from a 1635 CE printing of Historia Naturalis.

Gold hair ornament from Agrigento, Sicily, 3rd century BCE. The central medallion depicts Medusa. Archaeological Museum of Agrigento.

The initial troop positions of the battle of Pharsalus in 48 BCE between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. In red are the 11 legions of Pompey with cavalry on the left flank against Caesar's 9 legions in blue.

Egyptian beadnet dress from the reign of Khufu, 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom of Egypt, 2551-2528 BCE. This beadnet dress is the earliest surviving example of a garment with the lozenge pattern. This pattern is frequently used when depicting...

Head of Penelope (the faithful wife of Odysseus), from Rome, now on display in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Hadrianic copy of a Greek original from the 5th century BCE.

Marble head from a portrait statue of a veiled priestess of the goddess Vesta. The headdress identifies the subject as a Vestal Virgin. Above her hair are six folds of the infula, a long woolen band wrapped around the head to hang in two...

A sketch of a Chickasaw, found in Southeastern Indians: Life Portraits (1775).

Sauls Mound is arranged so that its corners are arranged in the four cardinal directions. It is believed to have some ceremonial function, and likely has a central role in the Woodland People's religious cosmology. Pinson Mounds State Archeological...

Photo of the Sunken Trace. Mile marker 41.5 on the Natchez Trace Parkway.