Images

Red-figure vase depicting a bride being prepared for her wedding. Part the Adrano Group, 330-320 BCE. Sicily, Italy. Collection of the Pushkin Museum. (Image has been digitally altered for clarity)

A painted Greek vase depicting marriage preparations. A female figure is seated, with her right hand outstretched to accept a box from the woman standing before her. Behind the seated figure stands a woman with a beaded necklace. The jewellery...

Greek vase depicting the wedding of Laertes and Anticlea, the parents of the mythological hero Odysseus. An Ionic column splits the scene into two parts. On the left register, Laertes takes the hand of his bride, Anticlea. On the right register...

Map of the Nabatean Kingdom at its greatest extent, c. 85 BCE.

A view of the Ka'ba in Medina.

A photo of the Ka'ba in Medina, Arabia.

Drawing of the 5th Century BCE Greek philosopher Melissus in the 15th Century CE Nuremberg Chronicle. Published in Nuremberg, Germany in 1493 CE.

Aview of the Al-Masjid An-Nabawi in Medina, Arabia. The mosque was built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad c. 622 CE, and over the centuries has been expanded and renovated significantly by later rulers.

An illustration of the Battle of Alexandria that took place on the twenty-first of March, 1801 CE by the English painter Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812 CE), which was between the French army under General Jacques-François Menou (1750-1810...

King Philip (Metacomet) of the Wampanoags, (1638-1676), meeting colonists, print by S. N. Wood, 1911. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.