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A detail of a 19th-century fresco showing Anaxagoras (l. c. 500-c. 428 BCE), the Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who claimed the First Cause of existence was Mind (nous). By Eduard Lebiedzki, after a design by Carl Rahl. (National and Kapodistrian...

Christ and Sinner, painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1873. Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.

A map illustrating the emergence of the Sumerian civilization around 6000 BCE from a collection of city-states on the floodplains of southern Mesopotamia, along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the area that was to later become the Akkadian...

Drävle Runestone, showing Andvari's ring, the Andvaranaut. Sweden, Enköping Municipality, Altuna parish.

Gold finger-ring, engraved with a runic inscription, three letters continuing on inside of the hoop, found near Carlisle, England, dated to the 8th-10th century. The British Museum, London

A map illustrating the sudden, chaotic downfall of numerous interconnected civilizations in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia toward the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE). The great kingdoms and empires of the...

Gideon and His Three Hundred, illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1907.

The Sacrifice of Gideon, oil on canvas painting by Hendrik Heerschop, 1653. Museum of John Paul II Collection, Warsaw.

Moses, Gideon, Elijah, and Samuel by il Baciccio. Pendentive of the dome of the Gesù, Rome.

The prophet Gideon with the roll of fleece in his hands as depicted on a Greek Catholic icon in the 18th century. Greek Catholic Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary.