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A marble bust of Roman emeperor Valens, r. 364-378 CE. (Capitoline Museums, Rome)

A marble bust of Roman emperor Gordian I who reigned in 238 CE. (Capitoline Museums, Rome)

A marble bust of Clodius Albinus (150-197 CE) who, on the death of Pertinax in 193 CE, was declared Roman emperor by the legions in Britain and Hispania. (Capitoline Museums, Rome)

A marble herm bust of the Greek 4th century BCE orator Bias of Priene. Considered one of the seven sages his famous motto was 'Most men are bad'. Roman copy of the Hadrian period from a Greek original. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

A bust of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus (r. 305-306 CE) who was the father of Constantine the Great. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

A marble bust of the 4th century BCE Athenian politician Demosthenes. 2nd century CE from a Greek original by Polyeuktos c. 280 BCE. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

Mot Cot Pagoda is a pagoda in the center of Hanoi. It was built in 1049 CE by Li Thanh Tong King. The temple is constructed of wood on a single stone pillar 1.25 m in diameter, and it is designed to resemble a lotus blossom, which is a Buddhist...

A bust of Sophocles (497/6 - 406 BCE) the Greek tragic poet and author of such masterpieces of Greek Tragedy as 'Oedipus the King'. Second half of the 1st century BCE. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

The Tizoc Stone which depicts on its flat upper surface a sun-disk and around its edge a continuous frieze showing the Aztec king Tizoc and other warriors capturing deities of conquered peoples. 15th century CE. (National Museum of Anthropology...

Title page of Sir Henry Billingsley's first English version of Euclid's Elements, 1570.