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The reconstructed gilded tea room of Fushimi Castle, Kyoto. The castle and tea room was originally built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the military leader of Japan from 1582-1598 CE.

An illustration of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the military leader of Japan from 1582 to 1598 CE.

A painted hand scroll of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the military leader of Japan from 1582 to 1598 CE.

A map of Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600 CE).

This is a photo of the mound known as Harsh ka Tila (“Mound of Harsha”), located west of Sheikh Chilli's Tomb complex in Thanesar, Kurukshetra district, Haryana state, India. It is 1 km long and 750 m wide. It has ruins of structures built...

This is the autograph of the Pushyabhuti Emperor Harshavardhana or Harsha (606-647 CE) as it appears in the Banskhera inscription. This signature in Sanskrit reads as “Svahasto mama maharajadhiraja sri harshasya” meaning, “By my own hand...

A geoglyph showing the Nazca Line Spider. The designs and lines created on the desert floor of southern Peru are known collectively as the 'Nazca Lines' and were made over several centuries between 200 BCE and 500 CE. Their exact purpose...

Maria Reiche with a large aerial photo of Nazca Lines. She was a German-born Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist best known for her research into the Nazca Lines. Date of photograph is unknown. Image credit: The Maria Reiche Foundation...

Maria Reiche with Paul Kosok in 1939 CE. Image credit: The Maria Reiche Foundation. Maria Reiche was a German-born Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist best known for her research on the Nazca Lines. Paul Kosok was an American professor...

A Greek "bell cuirass" from the Archaic Period, made sometime between the 7th and 6th Century BCE. This cuirass came from the Greek mainland and was the antecedent to the later and more recognizable "muscle cuirass". This breastplate is...