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A view of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust (1941-1945), from the Ministergärten. Designed by New York architect Peter Eisenman, the memorial covers 19,000 square metres...

Three young Jewish boys on the street in Chełm, Nazi-occupied Poland. They are all wearing a Star of David badge on their coats. The photograph was taken between 8 August and 13 September 1941, by a soldier who was stationed in the town with...

A yellow Star of David badge with 'Jude' ('Jew' in German) printed in black. Cloth badges like this were used as a tool of identification by the Nazi regime (1933-1945) to mark Jewish people in order to stigmatise and segragate them, which...

During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April-May 1943), SS and SD officers force a group of Jews to leave their shelter. Second from the right, pointing a submachine gun at a Jewish boy holding his hands above his head, is SS-Rotenfuerer Josef...

In 1000 CE, Europeans had a limited but expanding awareness of the wider world, shaped by trade, exploration, and religious contacts. The Vikings had pushed westward, reaching Greenland and Vinland (North America). At the same time, merchants...

Coins of Antimachus I Theos, 185-170 BCE. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

Silver plate with Yazdegerd I, slaying a stag. Sassanian Empire, c. 399-420 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Four views of silver ewer with dancing women within arcades. Sassanian Empire, ca. 6th-7th century CE. This object was likely used as a wine jug during celebrations. Its form and decoration shows connections to Greco-Roman and Early Byzantine...

Silver plate with king hunting rams. Sassanian Empire, c. mid-5th–mid-6th century CE. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A relief showing the miracle of Sravasti, with the preaching Buddha depicted on a lotus throne, while Bodhisattvas are seen on either side. 2nd-3rd century CE. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.