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Bibliotheca Historica Vol. 2. by 1st-century BCE historian Diodorus Siculus. Printed in 1746 CE. The Wolf Library’s George Wythe Collection.

The great seal of Alexander III of Scotland (r. 1249-1286 CE).

Cover of New English Canaan by Thomas Morton. Printed in Amsterdam, 1637 CE.

Thomas Morton of Merrymount arrested by Captain Myles Standish of the Plymouth Colony. Image from page 105 of "Ruth of Boston; a story of the Massachusetts Bay colony" by Otis, J. (1910 CE)

Image from page 496 of "A popular history of the United States: from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period...

Red-figured hydria attributed to the Syriskos Painter. Made in Attica, Greece, c. 480 BCE, found in Vulci.

A statue of Alexander III of Scotland (r. 1249-1286 CE) on the exterior of Saint Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.

A medieval manuscript illustration showing the coronation of Alexander III of Scotland (r. 1249-1286 CE) at Scone. (Corpus Christi College Cambridge, England)

An adapted version of the calligraphic pane of Husayn ibn Ali in the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.

Extensively renovated by Abbot Suger between 1137 and 1148 CE, the Basilica of Saint-Denis in Paris became the archetype of Gothic cathedrals. Suger made intentional use of light to help spiritually transport the beholder towards the divine...