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Amicia de Rune keeping a sea of rats at bay with a burning stick in the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence.

The fictional characters Amicia de Rune and Hugo de Rune from the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence, set in Medieval France during the plague.

View of the raised garden of the House of Marcus Lucretius in Pompeii. The garden features an elegant fountain supplied by a jet of water that gushed from a statue of Silenus. The house is named after a small painting in which writing instruments...

The Follonica of Stephanus (also called Fullery of Stephanus) is one of the most important and complete laundries found in Pompeii where manufactured cloth was washed and stain removed. Stephanus' laundry was built just after the earthquake...

The thermopolium (cook-shop) of Vetutius Placidus in Pompeii. Thermapolia were bars which served hot food and drinks. The 'L' shaped masonry counter has large storage jars which were used to hold food. On the rear wall of the bar is a painted...

A model of the khan's palace at Karakorum, capital of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE) from 1235 to 1263 CE. (National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaanbaatar)

An illustration of the fabled silver drinking tree in the palace of Ogedei Khan (r. 1229-1241 CE) at Karakorum, then capital of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE). The tree served many different alcoholic drinks from its various spouts. (From...

Coin of Honorius, minted in Ravenna c. 402-403 CE.

View of the garden area of the Praedia (estate) of Julia Felice in Pompeii. The large complex of properties was formed after the earthquake of 62 CE by incorporating previous buildings into a single urban villa. Its owner, Julia Felix, converted...

The Large Palaestra of Pompeii (also known as the Great Gymnasium) is of a large open air square, approximately 140 x 140 m, surrounded by porticoes. Built in the Augustan period, at the beginning of the 1st century CE, as a space to practise...