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St. Cuthbert's Island, near Lindisfarne, where Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) retired to live in solitude before he was offered the bishopric of Lindisfarne.

Statue of Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) at Lindisfarne Priory.

Stained glass window of Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) in St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.

Recreated wattle and daub house at Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site, Cartersville, GA.

A painting by archaeologist Robert Neitzel, former curator of the Etowah Mounds site, illustrating how Mound C might have looked when it was used as a platform for a building. The building was probably an ossuary for the bones of the elite/leaders...

Mound A, Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site, Cartersville, GA. The city was built in three phases between c. 1000 - c. 1550 and the present site encloses three large and three smaller mounds surrounding a central plaza. The three large mounds...

Constantine I's (r. 306-337 CE) vision and the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in a 9th-century Byzantine manuscript. Detail from folio 440 recto of manuscript BnF MS Gr510, dated 879-883 and containing the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus...

The Emblem of Christ Appearing to Constantine / Constantine's conversion, oil on panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Serpent Mound, Ohio. It was first positively dated and attributed to the Native American Adena culture (c. 800 BCE - 1 CE) but later excavations strongly suggested it was built by the natives of the so-called Fort Ancient culture (c. 1000-1750...

Serpent Mound, Ohio. It was first positively dated and attributed to the Native American Adena culture (c. 800 BCE - 1 CE) but later excavations strongly suggested it was built by the natives of the so-called Fort Ancient culture (c. 1000-1750...