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The Yakushi Triad in the Main Hall of Yakushiji temple, Nara, Japan. Bronze, 680-718 CE. Yakushi Nyorai is the Buddha of healing and the seated figure is flanked by two bodhisattvas. The Yakushi figure is 4.3 metres (14 ft.) in height.

One of the surviving 21 gates of Himeji Castle, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Built as a samurai fortress in 1581-1609 CE.

The keep of Himeji Castle, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Built as a samurai fortress in 1581-1609 CE.

A painting illustrating the complex ground plan of Himeji Castle, located in the town of Himeji in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan. 1601-9 CE.

The stele is an elongated stone monument which originally stood at the Temple of Adad at Eshnunna. The front side is carved with four registers while the narrow sides were inscribed with 220 lines of a cuneiform text divided into 17 columns...

This stone piece is carved with a scene depicting Gilgamesh wrestling two bulls. From the great temple at Tell Agrab, Diyala Valley, Iraq. Early Dynastic period, 2600-2370 BCE. On display at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq.

On this celestial globe, made by the Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator (Louvain, 1551), the Coma Berenices (here called “Cincinnus”) is shown between the constellations Boötes (“Bubulcus”) and Virgo; the globe projects the constellations...

Berenice II (c. 266 - 221 BCE) is represented as Agathe Tyche, the goddess of Good Fortune, on a type of faience wine vase called oinochoe (Alexandria, ca. 245-200 BCE, Getty inv. 96.AI.58).

Himeji Castle, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Built as a samurai fortress in 1581-1609 CE.

A 14th century CE manuscript illustration showing the Greek armies of the Empire of Trebizond (1204-1461 CE) depicted as those of Alexander the Great.