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Capitoline temples of Sufetula, photograph by Carole Raddato, Sufetula (Sbeitla), Tunisia, February 13, 2023. Depicted here is the ancient town of Sufetula's complex of three temples, dated c. 100-250 CE, dedicated to the Capitoline Triad...

Forum of Sufetula, photograph by Carole Raddato, Sufetula (Sbeitla), Tunisia, February 13, 2023. A rectangular walled plaza measuring 72 by 60 metres, this Roman forum, dated c. 100-250 CE, served as the civic and religious centre of the...

A gouache on paper painting titled The New Deal 1933-1939 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. President Franklin Roosevelt holds a "We do our part" National Recovery Administration...

Baptistery from the Basilica of Vitalis, photograph by Carole Raddato, Sufetula (Sbeitla), Tunisia, February 13, 2023. This Christian structure, dated 5th-6th century CE, is a richly decorated baptistery found in the ancient town of Sufetula...

Cross of Sbeitla, mosaic, photograph by Carole Raddato, Sufetula (Sbeitla), Tunisia, February 14, 2023. This early Christian mosaic from 5th-6th century CE was sourced from within Sufetula, an ancient town — once Roman, then Byzantine, and...

Portrait of Mughal Princess Nadira Banu Begum, miniature painting attributed to Balchand from the Dara Shikoh Album, folio 20, 1631-1632. Nadira Banu Begum (1618-1659) was the daughter of Sultan Parviz Mirza and wife to Prince Dara Shikoh...

A gouache on paper painting titled The Great Depression 1929 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. President Hoover in front of a crowd of unemployed people. In the background are Al...

A gouache on paper painting titled The Roaring 20s by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Bringing together Jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, entertainers Al...

Athenian coin, silver, 550-546 BCE. Minted in the ancient Greek city-state of Athens, this silver coin depicts a Gorgon's head, a symbolic ward against evil also known as a "gorgoneion." On the reverse, not pictured here, is stamped a square...

Pisistratus by trickery deprives Solon of his sovereignty, illustration in Sylvain Maréchal's History of Greece, c. 1790. The scene depicted here is the arrival of a wounded Pisistratus (c. 600-527 BCE) to the Athenian agora, claiming to...