Images

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)

Neo-Hittite statue of King Suppiluliuma unearthed in 2012 at Kunulua, the capital of the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina (1000-738 BCE) in southeastern Turkey. The remains of the figure stand approximately 1.5 meters in height, suggesting a...

Mosaic of the abandoned Ariadne, from Seleucia Pieria (Samandağ), 2nd-3rd century CE. Ariadne sits in the middle with Eros above her head and another figure standing by her. In the left partition is Dionysus and in the right partition is...

Thalassa (spirit of the sea), with the crab-claw horns, holding a ship's oar and a dolphin on the Megalopsychia Hunt of Antioch mosaic. Late 5th century CE, found in the village of Yakto near Daphne. Hatay Archaeology Museum, Antakya, Turkey...