Images

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. Khalili...

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 Maps...

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.

Artist's impression of a palace scene in the Mauryan Empire of India. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.

Ruins of the Ziggurat from Tepe Sialk, Iran.

Image of Dur-Kurigalzu ziggurat ruins, Iraq.

A digital reconstruction of what the Roman Baths in modern-day Bath, England may have looked like. Reconstruction created by NeoMam Studios, commissioned by QS Supplies.

Battle of Shiroyama, the final phase of Satsuma Rebellion, painting by Nagashima Mōsai (Utagawa Yoshitora), 1877.