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A Nazca geoglyph depicting a cactus. The designs and lines created on the desert floor of southern Peru are known collectively as the 'Nazca Lines' and were made over several centuries between 200 BCE and 500 CE. Their exact purpose is not...

A Nazca geoglyph depicting a hummingbird. The designs and lines created on the desert floor of southern Peru are known collectively as the 'Nazca Lines' and were made over several centuries between 200 BCE and 500 CE. Their exact purpose...

A relief with a representation of Persian King Xerxes I. 5th century BCE, Persepolis.

Part of the surviving wall from the Inca sacred precinct of Coricancha at Cuzco, 15th century CE. The site was reused for the monastery of Santo Domingo.

One of the reconstructed temples from Coricancha, the sacred Inca precinct at Cuzco. 15th century CE.

Antonia Minor (36 BCE-37 CE), was the second daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony. (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome)

Portrait of Salonina Matidia (niece of Trajan and mother of Vibia Sabina who would marry the future Roman Emperor Hadrian), from Luni, c. 119 CE. (Capitoline Museums, Rome)

The Empress Bruttia Crispina, wife of Roman Emperor Commodus, c. 180 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Empress Fulvia Plautilla, wife of the Roman Emperor Caracalla, 202-205 CE. (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome)

Statue of Empress Julia Domna (wife of Septimius Severus) as Ceres, from the Portico of the Fountain with oil-lamp, 3rd century CE, Ostia Antica.