Images

Preface of one of the most famous epic narratives of the Oghuz Turks, the Book of Dede Korkut, from an anonymous manuscript from the 16 century. Saxon State and University Library, Dresden.

The statue of Dede Korkut, a semi-legendary sage and poet among the Oghuz Turks and the narrator of the stories in the Book of Dede Korkut, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

St. George's Church in Drohobych, Ukraine, is one of the oldest and best-preserved monuments of sacral timber architecture of the mid-17th century of Galicia. The church is today listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Ninth Wave, oil on canvas painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850. Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The painting depicts the sea after a huge night storm and people injured in a shipwreck. The sun's rays illuminate the huge...

Woodcut print of reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541) from c. 1541/1542.

Face reconstruction of King John of England (also called John Lackland, r. 1199-1216), based on his tomb effigy in Worcester Cathedral and contemporary chroniclers describing his physical appearance. During his reign, he lost the Duchy of...

Face reconstruction of Richard I of England (the Lionheart, r. 1189-1199), based on the funerary effigy in Rouen Cathedral. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and...

Face reconstruction of Eleanor of Aquitane (l. c. 1122-1204) based on her effigy from Fontevraud Abbey. She was Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII of France, the Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife...

Vicars' Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be the oldest residential street with original buildings surviving intact in Europe from the mid-14th century.

Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.