Images

A map illustrating the route taken by King Louis XVI and his family during the failed escape from Paris known as the Flight to Varennes, on the night of 20-21 June 1791. The royal family was attempting to make it to Montmedy, on the border...

A 1902 painting by Juan Lepiani showing the conquistador Francisco Pizarro on Isla del Gallo on his second expedition to Peru in 1527. Recalled by the governor of Cuba, Pizarro ignored his orders and asked his men who would volunteer to proceed...

The Hindu Kush mountains at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Artist's impression of a scene in a Babylonian palace. The illustration takes inspiration from the Ishtar Gate as well as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Created by Amplitude Studios for the...

An Aztec jade pendant in the form of a figurine. 15th century. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

A portion of an illuminated manuscript showing Waldensian women as witches. The Waldensians were considered a heretical sect and persecuted by the Catholic Church in France in the 16th century. From Martin Le Franc's "Ladies' Champion", 1451...

A map illustrating the rise and expansion of the Bronze Age Shang dynasty of China in the second millennium BCE following the overthrowing of the Xia dynasty. Established around 1600 BCE, on the North China Plain, the Shang ruled by a single...

A 19th-century print by Gustave Dore showing the massacre of the Waldensians of Merindol in France in 1545.

A 19th-century statue of Pierre Waldo (l. 1140–1218), a forerunner of the Christian Reformists. Luther Memorial in Worms, Germany.

A jade assemblage representing a leaf-nosed bat. Likely worn as a belt or chest adornment. From a Zapotec royal tomb at Monte Alban, Mexico.