Images

Map showing the spatial distribution of rice, millet, and mixed farming sites with a boundary of rice and millet and possible centers of agriculture in China, published in "Prehistoric evolution of...

Aerial view of the Bailem Valley, Papua New Guinea, a site of ancient Neolithic settlements and explored for the first time by Western explorers in the 1930s. In 2008, the Kuk Early Agricultural Site was designated...

A view of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust (1941-1945), from the Ministergärten. Designed by New York architect Peter Eisenman, the memorial...

Three young Jewish boys on the street in Chełm, Nazi-occupied Poland. They are all wearing a Star of David badge on their coats. The photograph was taken between 8 August and 13 September 1941, by a soldier who...

A yellow Star of David badge with 'Jude' ('Jew' in German) printed in black. Cloth badges like this were used as a tool of identification by the Nazi regime (1933-1945) to mark Jewish people in order to stigmatise and segragate...

During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April-May 1943), SS and SD officers force a group of Jews to leave their shelter. Second from the right, pointing a submachine gun at a Jewish boy holding his hands above his head, is SS-Rotenfuerer...

Around 1000 CE, European knowledge of the wider world was limited, uneven, yet slowly expanding, shaped less by direct exploration than by inherited classical learning, religious frameworks, and selective...

Coins of Antimachus I Theos, 185-170 BCE. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

Silver plate with Yazdegerd I, slaying a stag. Sassanian Empire, c. 399-420 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Four views of silver ewer with dancing women within arcades. Sassanian Empire, ca. 6th-7th century CE. This object was likely used as a wine jug during celebrations. Its form and decoration shows connections...