Images

A glass of kumis (airagh), the fermented mare's milk drink that has been popular in Mongolia and elsewhere for centuries.

Erotic fresco from the south wall of the brothel (Lupanar) of Pompeii. 1st century CE.

View of the exercise yard (palaestra) of the Stabian Baths in Pompeii. Three sides of the courtyard have Doric colonnades constructed of tufa and coated with white stucco. The bathing complex covered a total surface area of over 3,500 square...

View of the large atrium of the House of the Faun in Pompeii with a central impluvium (rainwater basin) and the bronze statue of the Dancing Faun. On either side of the atrium are cubicula (bedrooms) while at the rear is the tablinum (study...

Depiction of a plague-infested battlefield during the Hundred Years War as depicted in the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence.

Amicia de Rune standing in front of the ramparts of a Medieval city in the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence.

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...