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The Imperial State Crown of the monarchy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island. Used in coronations and other state events, it contains the famous Black Prince’s ruby (actually a balas or spinel), the Cullinan II diamond...

Philoctetes, wounded, is abandoned by the Greek expedition en route to Troy, detail of an Attic red-figure stamnos, c. 460 BCE. Louvre, Paris.

Marble Slab with the Recall of Philoctetes Archaeological Museum of Brauron

Ruins of Persepolis, capital of the Achaemenid Empire under the reign of Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE) and his successors.

The tower (donjon) of Rochester Castle, Kent, England, which was built in the 12th century CE.

Drawing of a group of warriors from the Bornu Empire. Drawing taken from "The earth and its inhabitants, Vol. III, West Africa" by Elisee Reclus (1830 -1905 CE) 1892 CE. From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell...

A mid-19th century CE illustration of a Wolof warrior. The Wolof Empire dominated West Africa between the Senegal and Gambia Rivers from the mid-14th to mid-16th century CE before breaking up into successor kingdoms, one of which was Wolof...

Tombstone of Caliph Umar (634 - 644 CE) of the Rashidun Caliphate, in Al-Masjid al-Nabawi, Medina. The grave of Umar can be seen from the first window on the right.

Ruins of Persepolis.

Handle ornament broken from a terracotta lamp. It may commemorate Octavian's victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE. Possibly Italian, more probably Egyptian, fabric.