Images

Portrait of King Taejong of Joseon (r. 1400-1418), aka Yi Bang-won, the third king of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea, by an unknown artist. National Museum of Korea, Seoul.

Portrait of Jeong Mong-ju, one of King Taejo of Joseon's (r. 1392-1398) advisors, by Yi Han-cheol, 1880. Jeong Mong-ju was killed in the First Strife of Princes by Taejo's son, Bang-won (later King Taejong, r. 1400-1418).

A map illustrating the evolution of the cultures on the northern Indian subcontinent with the arrival of the Aryan nomads during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age known as the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), when the Vedic literature...

A flintlock pistol, c. 1700-1730. English lock and stock. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Sign of Noah's Covenant with God, mosaic from St Paul's Cathedral in London.

An illustration by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) showing the notorious pirate Blackbeard's fight to the death in 1718. From an original oil painting by Pyle. (The illustration first appeared in Pyle, Howard (1894), Jack Ballister's Fortunes, The...

A sketch of an armed pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, New York, Harper and Brothers.

Covenant with Noah, mosaic by Boris Anrep from the Blessed Sacrament chapel of Westminster Cathedral, London.

A depiction of the jötunn master-builder and his horse Svadilfari by Robert Engels, published in Germaniens Götter by Rudolf Herzog, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig, 1919.

Hacienda of Chorrillo, Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico.