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A Celtic coin from the Iron Age Balkans. Silver, 2nd-1st century BCE. The obverse shows Dionysos while the reverse shows a stylised Hercules holding a club and lion skin. (British Museum, London)

An example of a Celtic coin known as a regenbogenschüsselchen of southern Germany and Bohemia. Electrum, 5th-1st century BCE.

Greybeard and Thor, illustrations to the poem The Lay of Greybeard (Old Norse: Hárbarðsljóð) from page 182 and 183 of The Elder or Poetic Edda; commonly known as Saemund's Edda, edited and translated with introduction and notes by Olive Bray...

The Great Massacre, illustration from page 237 of An illustrated history of the New world: containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ... and a complete history of the United States...

A Celtic bowl with embossed gold leaf decoration from the princely burial at Schwarzenbach, Rhineland, Germany. 5th century BCE. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Ashoka pillar at Vaishali, Bihar, India, 3rd century BCE.

Marble herms. Athens Stone Sculpture Gallery, National Archaeological Museum of Greece, Athens.

Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, oil on canvas painting by Simon de Myle, 1570 CE. Private collection, Paris.

Interior of a reconstructed Powhatan longhouse (yehakin) in the living history museum Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown, Virginia.

"La Joyeuse" (French for "The Joyous") was the name given to the sword of Charlemagne (l. 742-814 CE) in Medieval legend. This 9th-10th Century CE sword, popularly identified as "Joyeuse", has been used in French coronation ceremonies from...