Images

Democritus, painting by Dosso and Battista Dossi, 1540. Pinacoteca Civica Domenico Inzaghi, Budrio.

São Francisco Church, Cidade Velha on Santiago, Cape Verde islands. Built in 1657 when the islands were a Portuguesecolony, it was restored in the early 21st century.

A c. 1646 watercolour painting showing the town of Ribeira Grande on Santiago, one of the islands of the Cape Verde archipelago, then a Portuguese colony. Painting by Caspar Schmalkalden, image by Arquipelagos. (Forschungsbibliothek Gotha)

Ribeira Principal stream on the island of Santiago, one of the Cape Verde Islands.

A 1598 map of the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde, an archipelago in the Central Atlantic off the coast of West Africa. Drawn by Barent Langenes. (National Library of France, Paris)

Model of a Roman grain ship, National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel.

Banna-ji, a Buddhist temple, was built in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan in 1196.

Komine Castle in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan was built in 1340.

Tsuruga Castle in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan was built in 1384.

Yamagata Castle in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan was built in 1356.