Images

The centaur Chiron teaching Achilles how to play the lyre, Roman fresco from Herculaneum. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Decorated amphora in the British Museum. Figures suggested to be Achilles and Cheiron. Etruscan 500-480BCE. British Museum, London.

The Education of Achilles, oil on canvas by Bénigne Gagneraux, 1785.

A portrait bust of the Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt (1736-1819). Watt, with his partner Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), made significant developments to the design of steam engines during the Industrial Revolution. Sculpted by P...

This family tree shows all the rulers of Carthage mentioned in extant ancient Greek and Roman sources (and three from a Punic inscription) from circa 550 to 306 BCE. It also indicates the Carthaginian commanders in the seven Greco-Punic Sicilian...

An infographic illustrating the family tree of Greek mythology's 12 Elder Titans, offspring of primordial deities Gaia (Earth) and Ouranos (Sky), a golden race of immortal, pre-Olympian gods and their descendants. It is broadly accepted that...

Mosque at the top of Mount Sinai.

Photo of Mount Sinai near Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, taken 7 November 2009.

An 1801 oil on canvas painting, Coalbrookdale by Night, by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. The scene captures the Bedlam furnaces at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England. (Science Museum, London)

Entrance to La Rochelle harbour, painting by Claude Lorrain, 1631. Louvre, Paris.