Images

A detail of a painted screen showing the Japanese view of Portuguese traders. The Portuguese controlled the trading port of Nagasaki from c. 1571 to 1639.

A detail from a Japanese painted screen showing a Portuguese carrack at the port of Nagasaki, a Portuguese trading post from c. 1571 to 1639. Screen painted by Kanō Naizen. (Kobe City Museum, Japan)

Ceremonial helmet of a Scythian ruler. 4th century BCE. Found in 1988 near Zrubne village, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, Kyiv.

View of the wall around old Gyantse from the fort. Gyantse, Tibet, 2010.

Alexandra David-Néel and Aphur Yongden in Lhasa, 1924.

Madame Blavatsky (1831-1891), founder of the Theosophical Society in 1877.

Photo of Alexandra David-Néel (l. 1868-1969), a world traveler, writer, and Buddhist spiritualist, 1933.

Artist's impression of Queen Dido (also known as Elissa) landing on the shores of North Africa and claiming the land where she founded Carthage. According to legend, when Queen Dido landed in North Africa, the local rulers offered...

The Head of Tutankhamun was once part of a larger limestone statue depicting Tutankhamun (r. c. 1336 to c. 1327 BCE) and the god Amun, fashioned during Tutankhamun’s reign, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom of Egypt. This statue is significant...

Artist's impression of the Circus Maximus in ancient Rome, with a chariot race going on.