Images

In the royal House of Books (Ketabkhana), which housed the library as well as being the place where manuscripts were created, Hindustani artists and Persian calligraphers, bookbinders, and illuminators came together to work under two...

A March 1939 photograph showing Adolf Hitler at the gates of Prague Castle. After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Germany absorbed the Sudetenland but then invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing a part of the fortifications which defended the borders of Czechoslovakia with the Third Reich in September 1938. Near Sedloňov, Czech Republic.

A photograph showing the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) arriving at Heston airport after the Munich Agreement of September 1938. Chamberlain is waving a paper signed by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) promising Britain and...

A North American Gray Wolf. Photograph by Gary Kramer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2003.

Fragment of a mosaic pavement with the head of Medusa. From Sparta (Greece), dated to the second half of the 3rd century CE. Archaeological Museum of Sparta, Greece.

Harthacnut (r. 1035-1042), miniature from an illuminated manuscript, Royal MS 14 B VI, 14th century. British Library, London.

Emma of Normandy, illustration from the Encomium Emmae Reginae (The Encomium Of Queen Emma), MS 33241, c. 1050. The British Library, London.

This map illustrates the geo-political situation in North America after The Louisiana Purchase - the 1803 acquisition by the United States of 828,000 square miles (2,144,000 square km) of French territory west of the Mississippi River. By...

Ojibwe shoulder pouch, with porcupine quills, depicting two thunderbirds The thunderbird - and thunder beings - are personifications of storms in the belief systems of several Native American nations. Boston Museum Collection, Massachusetts...