Images

Map showing the route taken by the Cimbri and Teutones (2nd century BCE).

A fresco depicting the Abduction of Persephone by Hades, lord of the Underworld, on the wall of Tomb I at Vergina, Macedon, Greece.

Line drawing of the eastern wall of the Sogdian sa-pao Wirkak’s sarcophagus (c. 580 CE) in Hsi-an: Wirkak and his wife are on their way over the Chinvat Bridge to the afterlife.

A map of first day of the Battle of Bannockburn (June 23, 1314 CE), waged between the forces of Robert the Bruce (r. 1306 - 1329 CE) and Edward II of England (r. 1307 - 1327 CE).

Statue of Roman statesman Cincinnatus (528 - 430 BCE) in Schönbrunn, Austria.

The tomb of King Edward II of England (r. 1307-1327 CE) in Gloucester Cathedral.

A 15th century CE manuscript illustration depicting the arrest in 1327 CE of king Edward II of England (r. 1307-1327 CE) by his wife Isabella of France (b. c. 1289 CE). (National Library of France, Paris)

A 19th century CE portrait based on a medieval engraving of Edward II of England (r. 1307-1327 CE).

The grave of Uthman ibn Affan (r. 644-656 CE) in al-Baqi (a graveyard near Medina). The tomb was destroyed in the 19th Century CE by the Saudi regime.

A painting of the Nahavand Castle (near modern Nahavand, Iran), the last stronghold of the Sassanians, made by Eugène Flandin in 1840 CE, for "Voyage en Perse", published in 1851.