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A Roman floor mosaic dating to between 350 and 375 CE and depicting a wild boar and mushrooms. Food was a popular subject in mosaics throughout the Roman period. Provenance: Toragnola, Rome. (Vatican Museums, Rome).

Approximate geographical distribution of the Indo-European language family today in Eurasia.

A map showing the various stages of expansion of the Inca empire.

Part of the impressive 5th to 3rd century BCE fortification wall of Selinus.

Archaic style sculpture depicting Perseus slaying the Gorgon Medusa who holds Pegasus. Mid-6th century BCE metope from Temple C, Selinus, Sicily. (Archaeological Museum of Palermo)

Eirene, goddess of peace, and her baby son Ploutos, god of wealth. Copy of a statue by Cephisodotus, originally placed in the marketplace of Athens, c. 370 BCE. Photographed in the Glyptothek in Munich.

Painting of Vardhamana Mahavira, dated on 1900. Personal collection of photos of Jules Jain.

Temple C, Selinus (Selinunte), Sicily. Built 580-560 BCE and possibly dedicated to Apollo and or Artemis. Originally the temple had 6 columns on the facade and 17 along the length. The temple once measured 63.7 x 24 metres and was the main...

The remaining Corinthian columns of the 5th century BCE temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens. It was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century CE, some 638 years after the project had begun.

The Temple of Zeus at Nemea was constructed during the last third of the 4th century BCE (ca . 330) as part of an extensive building program throughout the sanctuary. Its predecessor, the Early Temple, had been constructed early in the 6th...