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A number of the gold coins found in the Celtic Essendon hoard from Hertfordshire, England. The hoard dates to the period c. 60 BCE to 40 CE. It is likely the coins were buried as a votive offering as the hoard was added...

The Rape of the Sabine Women, painting by Nicolas Poussin, 1637-1638 CE. Louvre, Paris Photo credit: Francisco Anzola

A Celtic coin die and gold coin showing a horse design from Bredgar, Kent, England, 2nd century BCE. The British Museum, London.

A Celtic coin from the Iron Age Balkans. Silver, 2nd-1st century BCE. The obverse shows Dionysos while the reverse shows a stylised Hercules holding a club and lion skin. (British Museum, London)

An example of a Celtic coin known as a regenbogenschüsselchen of southern Germany and Bohemia. Electrum, 5th-1st century BCE.

Greybeard and Thor, illustrations to the poem The Lay of Greybeard (Old Norse: Hárbarðsljóð) from page 182 and 183 of The Elder or Poetic Edda; commonly known as Saemund's Edda, edited and translated with introduction and notes by...

The Great Massacre, illustration from page 237 of An illustrated history of the New world: containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ... and a complete history...

A Celtic bowl with embossed gold leaf decoration from the princely burial at Schwarzenbach, Rhineland, Germany. 5th century BCE. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Ashoka pillar at Vaishali, Bihar, India, 3rd century BCE.

Marble herms. Athens Stone Sculpture Gallery, National Archaeological Museum of Greece, Athens.