Images

Henry III of France (r. 1574-1589), oil on canvas by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1576-78. Private Collection.

Catherine de' Medici and Her Children, oil on canvas by the workshop of François Clouet, 1561.

Henry II of France (r. 1547-1559), oil on canvas by the workshop of François Clouet. Castle of Montal.

Portrait of Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589), oil on canvas by Germain Le Mannier, c. 1547-1559. Uffizi, Florence.

A section of the fortification walls of the Inca Sacsayhuaman (also Saqsawaman) fortress-temple complex of northern Cusco, 13th-15th century CE.

The Grafenstein inscription. Noric language recorded on a tile from the 2nd century CE, discovered in a gravel pit in 1977 in Grafenstein, Austria.

An early 17th-century illustration by Felipe Guáman Poma de Ayala showing the coronation of the new Inca ruler, Manco Inca Yupanqui on 16 November 1533. Manco Inca was a puppet ruler of the conquistadors but he rose up in rebellion and led...

The Lezoux plate, a ceramic plate found in 1970 at Lezoux, Puy-de-Dôme, France. The engraved text is one of the longest ones in the Gaulish language, in a Gallo-Latin cursive script. Prefectural Museum of Ceramics, Lezoux

Fragments of the Larzac Tablet, a lead curse tablet dated to c. 100 CE. Musée de Millau, France.

Title page of the Index of Prohibited Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum), published in Rome, 1711. National Library of Slovenia, Ljubljana.