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A 1720s painting of George I of Great Britain (r. 1714-1727) by Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine. (Royal Collection, UK)

Medea about to Murder Her Children, oil on canvas by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix. 1862. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Jason and Medea, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1907. Private collection.

Medea flying on her chariot, red-figure calyx-krater (mixing vessel), South Italian, Lucanian, c. 400 BCE. Cleveland Museum of Art.

A visual timeline illustrating the development of what most consider the “cradle of civilization” - Mesopotamia (meaning “the land between two rivers,” the Tigris and Euphrates) from the emergence of small tribal settlements in the Stone...

An 1848 lithograph by James Rattray of the Jugdulluk Pass. The pass had to be negotiated during the notorious retreat from Kabul in 1842 by the East India Company army. (British Library, London)

An 1848 lithograph by James Rattray of the Khyber Pass (between today's Afghanistan and Pakistan).

The Philippsruhe Castle on the Main is the oldest baroque castle east of the Rhine, built according to the French model. The construction of the main building began in 1701 on behalf of Count Philipp Reinhard. The castle complex is...

The Achilles Revealed mosaic from Zeugma (southeastern Turkey) depicts Achilles (disguised as a girl) being discovered by Odysseus on Skyros island. The mosaic decorated the bottom of a pool with a waterspout in the impluvium of the House...

An 1898 painting by William Barnes Wollen, 'The Last Stand', depicting the last stand of the British East India Company's disastrous Retreat from Kabul, 1842.