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One of the first castles in Saxony, Germany, built at the end of the 15th century. It was rather residential, that defence-oriented. The builder of the Netzschkau Castle, Caspar Metzsch, was very influential at the Saxon court. This promoted...

This map shows the phenomena of the movement of tea, and what it's called around the globe. Around the world, there are mainly 2 root words for tea, 'te' and 'cha', and both of these come from China. Where the use of ‘cha’ occurred through...

Portrait of Matthew Zell by Tobias Stimmer, 1590.

Day of the Tiles on June 7, 1788 in Grenoble, oil on canvas painting by Alexandre Debelle, 1889. Museum of the French Revolution, Vizille.

The extraordinary session of the Parlement of Paris on 19 November 1787 at the Palais de Justice. Museum of the French Revolution, Vizille.

Tombstone of Felsonius Verus, the aquilifer of Legio II Parthica. Located at Apamea, Syria.

Cooper engraving presenting a reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541). Created around 1522.

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.