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Statue of Hercules discovered in 1980 at the ancient city of Perge in southern Turkey. It was reproduced in the late 2nd century CE from the 4th century BCE original by the Greek sculptor Lysippos. The top half of the statue was smuggled...

The Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum, Mashpee, MA.

Marble statue of a dancing woman, 2nd century CE. The statue was found in Perge and is now in the Antalya Museum in Turkey.

Colonists choosing wives, illustration from page 147 of Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement by Eunice C. Corbett and Anna Content, Chicago, A. Flanagan, 1890 CE. Library of Congress

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.