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The sacrificial altar standing in the Temple Courtyard in Aquae Sulis (Bath). The altar was used for public ceremonies and animal sacrifices during the Roman period (1st - early 5th century CE). Carvings of Jupiter, Apollo, and other Roman...

Head from the guilded bronze statue of the goddess Sulis Minerva. The statue would have been standing in the temple dedicated to the goddess in Aquae Sulis (now Bath) in the Roman period (1st - early 5th century CE). Now on display in The...

Front cover of Niloufer Mavalvala's new book The World of Parsi Cooking

Parsi Dish: Kheema per edu nay sali: Ground meat with egg and matchstick Pptatoes

Parsi Dish: Daar ni Pori

Parsi dish: Daar ni Potli - Sweet Lentil Crostata

A 1st Century BCE copy of a 4th Century BCE marble bust of the Greek orator Lysias (c. 445 - 380 BCE).

"Demosthenes Practicing Oratory" (also known as "Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole", in French) is an 1870 painting of the Greek orator Demosthenes (c. 384 -322 BCE). The painting was created by the French painter Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte...

A portrait of Japan's Emperor Go-Horikawa, r. 1221-1232 CE. Artist: Fujiwara no Tamenobu. From the Tenshi-Sekkan Miei. (Museum of the Imperial Collections, Tokyo)

Close-up of a silver rhyton with a reclining Silenus. Late 3rd or early 2nd century BCE. Vassil Bojkov Collection Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation www.thracefoundation.org