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Wives for the settlers at Jamestown, illustration from page 110 of United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day by John Clark Ridpath, Boston...

The Alacahöyük Bronze Standards are a series of Hattian bronze objects found among the grave goods in the royal tombs in Alacahöyük, a Neolithic and Hittite settlement situated in Alaca, in the Çorum Province of Turkey. The standards are...

Wooden furniture (table, serving stand, stool) from the royal burials (tumuli) at Gordium (the capital of the ancient kingdom of Phrygia in modern-day Turkey). Phrygian period, end of 8th century BCE. The Gordium wooden objects have...

A 19th century CE painting depicting Judas Iscariot by James Tissot. (Brooklyn Museum, New York)

A fragment of the Gospel of Judas (from the Codex Tchacos). 300 CE, papyrus. (Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art, Basel, Switzerland)

A fresco showing Judas Iscariot hanging himself from a tree as recounted in the New Testament's Book of Mathew. 16th century CE. Tarzhishte Monastery, Strupets, Bulgaria.

Roman legionaries, reenactment at Archeon, a living history museum in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Photo taken in 2011 CE.

Bronze military diploma of an infantryman named Dasmenus Azalus, who served in the auxiliary units of the Roman army. Issued c. 149 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A detail of a red-figure pottery vase showing Boreas, the god of the North Wind in Greek mythology. From Attica, 440-430 BCE. (Cabinet des médailles, Paris)

A detail of a black-figure pottery vase showing the god of the North Wind Boreas blowing Odysseus across the sea. Theban, 4th century BCE. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England)