Images

The extraordinary session of the Parlement of Paris on 19 November 1787 at the Palais de Justice. Museum of the French Revolution, Vizille.

Tombstone of Felsonius Verus, the aquilifer of Legio II Parthica. Located at Apamea, Syria.

Cooper engraving presenting a reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541). Created around 1522.

Preface of one of the most famous epic narratives of the Oghuz Turks, the Book of Dede Korkut, from an anonymous manuscript from the 16 century. Saxon State and University Library, Dresden.

The statue of Dede Korkut, a semi-legendary sage and poet among the Oghuz Turks and the narrator of the stories in the Book of Dede Korkut, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

St. George's Church in Drohobych, Ukraine, is one of the oldest and best-preserved monuments of sacral timber architecture of the mid-17th century of Galicia. The church is today listed as a UNESCO World Heritage...

The Ninth Wave, oil on canvas painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850. Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The painting depicts the sea after a huge night storm and people injured in a shipwreck. The sun's rays illuminate...

Woodcut print of reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541) from c. 1541/1542.

Face reconstruction of King John of England (also called John Lackland, r. 1199-1216), based on his tomb effigy in Worcester Cathedral and contemporary chroniclers describing his physical appearance. During his reign, he lost the Duchy...

Face reconstruction of Richard I of England (the Lionheart, r. 1189-1199), based on the funerary effigy in Rouen Cathedral. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers...