Images

Statue of a Valkyrie on her horse by Norwegian-Danish sculptor Stephan Sinding, 1908. Churchill Park, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by Leonard G.

Loki's Brood by the German artist Emil Doepler, illustration from page 43 of Walhall, die Götterwelt der Germanen, Martin Oldenbourg, Berlin. 1905. The drawing depicts the Norse god Loki's three children by the giantess Angrboda (shown...

Official signpost of the German Limes Road (German: Deutsche Limes-Straße), a tourist route for motorists, cyclists and hikers that follows the course of the UNESCO - World Heritage Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes. Starting in Rheinbrohl (near...

Vetoniana is a Roman cohort camp near Pfünz in Bavaria, Germany. Probably constructed around 90 CE as a wooden and earth structure and later rebuilt in stone, Fort Vetoniana was garrisoned by a unit of 500 men, including some cavalry. Of...

Abusina was a Roman military camp of the Roman province of Rhaetia. It is located at Eining on the Danube around 30 kilometres (984 ft) south-west of Regensburg, along the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes. Originally a timbered earth fort erected...

An artist's impression of how the pirate Stede Bonnet (1689-1718) may have looked. Captain Bonnet was known as the 'Gentleman Pirate' since he was a former plantation owner before he turned to piracy. He was hanged in South Carolina in 1718...

Black pepper (Piper nigrum).

Dried long pepper catkins (Piper longum).

The Jolly Roger flag of the Barbadian pirate Captain Stede Bonnet (d. 1718).

Baking oven in the Casa del Forno, Pompeii. A rare example of archaeological remains of an ancient bakery, Casa del Forno gives us a vivid picture of grinding grains, preparing the dough, and baking loaves in the Roman world.