Images

Cover of Les Dimanches de la Femme, a French fashion and beauty magazine issued from 1930 to 1939. (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

A photograph showing members of the Nazi paramilitary during the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in November 1923. (German Federal Archives)

Grave goods from a male burial in the necropolis of Pydna, c. 330 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, acc. no. Py4285. The ancient city of Pydna (near today's small town of Makrygialos) was a semi-independent harbour by the Thermaic...

Gold ivy wreath from Nea Apollonia, Thessaloniki, 350-325 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. Ceremonial wreaths were among the most prestigious adornments in the ancient Greek world. Probably a predecessor of later royal crowns...

A photograph showing the use of the Nazi flag at the Nuremberg Rally of 1938, the annual rally of the German Nazi party. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing a procession and flag ceremony at the Nuremberg Rally of 1934, the annual rally of the Nazi party. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) about to speak to the crowds at the Nuremberg Rally of 1936. (German Federal Archives)

A 2018 photograph showing the ruins of what was once the stage area for the Nuremberg rallies in Nazi Germany (1927-38).

Hariti, goddess of fertility, 2nd-3rd century, Sahri Bahlol Excavation, 1911-12. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

This map illustrates the rise and extent of the Olmec civilization, which flourished from around 1200 to 400 BCE (the earliest Olmec finds near the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán sites, date back to c.1600) in the present-day Gulf Coast in the...