Images

Image of Johannes Gutenberg (l.c. 1398-1468), inventor of the printing press.

Artist's impression of Phoenician seafarers leaving port. The Phoenicians were famous around the Mediterranean for their naval trade, exploration and colonization. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.

Minerva and Arachne (1706), by French artist René-Antoine Houasse.

The work represents the moment in which the weaver Arachne was turned into a spider by the goddess Athena, and is one of the best-known mythological works by the Sevillian painter Diego Velázquez. Completed...

Arachne or Dialectics painted in 1520 by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese.

Artist's Impression of Mycenaean warriors attacking an enemy city. The Mycenaean civilization flourished in the Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1700-1100 BCE), peaking from the 15th to the 13th...

A tumi or ceremonial knife made by the Lambayeque civilization (Sican) of northern Peru, 10-11th century. Gold and silver inlaid with turquoise.(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Distribution of Assignats, drawing by E. Béricourt, c. 1793. National Library of France.

Peasant selling his assignats to a money changer, Paris, gouache by Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, c. 1789-1796. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Assignat for 15 sols, issued by Domaines Nationaux, 1793. National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.