Images

Death of Marat, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1793. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

The famous final portrait of Charlotte Corday, painted in her prison cell hours before her execution by Jean-Jacques Hauer, an officer of the National Guard, in 1793. Current location unknown, but a copy is in Versailles.

Depiction of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, being led out of her cell to the guillotine on 17 July 1793. Standing at the far left is the painter Jean-Jacques Hauer who has just finished his portrait of her. Painting by...

A life-size model of what Noah's Ark may have looked like. From the Ark Encounter theme park in Williamstown, Kentucky, USA.

A 1493 illustration from the Nuremberg chronicles showing the construction of Noah's Ark.

A large silk embroidered wall hanging, worked in long and short silk stitch, with a composite imaginary view of Japan, including shrines, bridges, lakes, forests and flowers, Mount Fuji rising in the distance, within a brocade border...

Tokyo Imperial University, 1925.

Map of the Japanese Empire, 1895. It was issued shortly after the 1895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan and is consequently one of the first Japanese maps to include Taiwan and Korea as provinces of Imperial Japan. Geographicus Rare Antique...

Artist's impression of a female Hunnic mounted archer riding into battle, most likely somewhere on the central Asian steppe. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.

Artist's impression of Celtic warriors standing on a hill. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.