Images

Queen Clotilde (center) presides over the division of Clovis I's kingdom between his four sons (Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I, and Chlothar I) who are gathered around her. Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse.

Head of Chlothar I, Frankish king of Soissons and later of all the Franks (r. 511-561) Museum of Soissons.

Reconstruction of the Dendera Zodiac with its original colors. Egypt, c. 1st century BCE.

A close up of a pair of wooden doors covered with Khatam at the Royal Balcony of the Marble Throne in Golestan Palace.

Rectangular box with khatam decoration, Iran, Qajar period, 1850-7. Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Khatam decoration (ivory, red sandalwood, copper) on side of a wooden casket. Size 125x42 mm. Supposedly the end of the 19th century.

Persian drum elaborately decorated with khatam, Iran, 19th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A colour print of an illustration by Robert Charles Dudley showing the SS Great Eastern laying the first Atlantic telegraph cable in 1865-7. The steamship was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59) and completed in 1858. It was the...

A diagram showing a cross-section of the SS Great Eastern. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59) and completed in 1858. It was the largest ship in the world at 692 feet (211 m) long. (Science Museum, London)

A model of the SS Great Eastern. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59) and completed in 1858. It was the largest ship in the world at 692 feet (211 m) long. Model made by John Scott Russell and Co. The scale of the model is...