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A map depicting the two transatlantic voyages of Amerigo Vespucci between 1499 and 1502. It is based on the 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller, a German clergyman and cartographer, which first referred to the southern hemisphere where...

Silver bust of the Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis, Roman, 2nd century CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Eusebius' Preparation for the Gospel, edited by Franciscus Vigerus, published by Michael Sonnius, Sebastian Cramoisy & Charles Morel, Paris, 1628.

Codex Vaticanus, which may contain Constantine I’s original Bible. Photo taken in Warsaw in 2015.

The Fair Melusine, oil on canvas painting by German artist Julius Hübner, 1844. National Museum, Poznan. The painting depicts the moment in the legend when Raymondin spies on his wife, Melusine, and discovers she is half-serpent...

A modern statue of Melusine by Serge Ecker in Luxembourg.

Melusine's secret discovered, illustration from folio 19 of the illuminated manuscript Français 24383 of The Romance of Melusine by Jean d'Arras, 15th century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Eusebius, illustration from fol. 1v from the T'oros Roslin Gospel Manuscript, created by Armenian illuminator T'oros Roslin for the hermitage of Ark'akaghin in Cilicia, in 1262. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Whole and ground nutmeg.

Location of the so-called Spice Islands, or the Maluku Islands or the Moluccas in Indonesia.