Images

The iconoclasts, oil painting by Jan Michiel Ruyten, mid-19th century. Groeningemuseum, Bruges.

Iconoclasm in a Church, oil on panel painting by Dirck van Delen, the Netherlands, 1630. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Portrait van Menno Simons on the title page of Opera omnia theologica, by Jan Luyken, 1681. Amsterdam Museum.

Melchior Hoffman (l. c. 1495 to c. 1543), portrait by Christoffel van Sichem, Amsterdam, 1600. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, München.

A scene from the 16th-century Codex Telleriano-Remensis showing the death of Pedro de Alvarado (c. 1485-1541), the Spanish conquistador who became the first governor of Guatemala in 1527. Alvarado was killed in Mexico when his horse fell...

A colourised version of an early 20th-century portrait of Pedro de Alvarado (c. 1485-1541), the Spanish conquistador who became the first governor of Guatemala in 1527. Original illustration by Tomás Povedano.

A map illustrating the rise and evolution of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (from the name of Achaemenes, an ancestor of the empire's founder, Cyrus the Great) from its origins in around 550 BCE when Cyrus II of Persia conquered the Medes...

Brown grass on a body of water at Norden, Germany.

A beautiful pond emerges from the waterfall deriving from Mt. Saos, Samothrace.

Gold dinar of Shajara al-Durr, sultana of Egypt (r. 1250 CE). The British Museum, London.