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George I of Great Britain by Lafontaine
A 1720s painting of George I of Great Britain (r. 1714-1727) by Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine. (Royal Collection, UK)
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Medea about to Murder Her Children
Medea about to Murder Her Children, oil on canvas by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix. 1862.
Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Jason and Medea
Jason and Medea, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1907.
Private collection.
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Medea on Her Chariot
Medea flying on her chariot, red-figure calyx-krater (mixing vessel), South Italian, Lucanian, c. 400 BCE.
Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Ancient Mesopotamia from Cities to Empires
The long-term development of Mesopotamia traces one of the earliest and most influential trajectories in world history, spanning from small Stone Age settlements (c. 10,000 BCE) to the political and cultural upheavals of the Late Bronze Age...
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The Jugdulluk Pass
An 1848 lithograph by James Rattray of the Jugdulluk Pass. The pass had to be negotiated during the notorious retreat from Kabul in 1842 by the East India Company army. (British Library, London)
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The Khyber Pass by Rattray
An 1848 lithograph by James Rattray of the Khyber Pass (between today's Afghanistan and Pakistan).
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Castle Philippsruhe
The Philippsruhe Castle on the Main is the oldest baroque castle east of the Rhine, built according to the French model. The construction of the main building began in 1701 on behalf of Count Philipp Reinhard. The castle complex is based...
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Achilles Revealed Mosaic from Zeugma
The Achilles Revealed mosaic from Zeugma (southeastern Turkey) depicts Achilles (disguised as a girl) being discovered by Odysseus on Skyros island. The mosaic decorated the bottom of a pool with a waterspout in the impluvium of the House...
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The Last Stand of the Retreat from Kabul
An 1898 painting by William Barnes Wollen, 'The Last Stand', depicting the last stand of the British East India Company's disastrous Retreat from Kabul, 1842.
