Images

This map traces the expansion of Buddhism from its origins in the Ganges Plain of Magadha (modern Bihar, India) during the 5th–4th century BCE when Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) attained enlightenment. From this heartland, Buddhism spread...

Battle of Crysler's Farm (11 November 1813) between British and US troops during the War of 1812. Oil on board, by Adam Sherriff Scott, c. 1960. Canadian War Museum, Ottawa.

Statue of Artemis/Diktynna, found in 1913 in the Diktynnaion sanctuary (Menies Kissamou), Roman Period. Archaeological Museum of Chania, Crete.

A photograph of the judges at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). The panel, which decided the fate of 22 senior Nazi figures after the Seocdn World War (1939-45), was made up of two judges selected from each of the victorious Allies: USSR, USA...

Modoc Harvest Diorama from the Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The Modoc are a Native American nation of the West Coast whose ancestral lands once included the regions of northeastern California and southern Oregon. Photograph...

Red sandstone cliffs in the Black Hills, Wyoming, former Kiowa territory which is still considered sacred ground by the Kiowa nation. Photograph by Walter Siegmund, 2005.

In Summer, Kiowa, photograph of three Kiowa men by F. A. Rinehart, 1898. The colorful clothing of the men suggests how the Kiowa's supernatural trickster figure Saynday's outfits would have been imagined. Boston Public Library.

The grave of the US author Herman Melville (1819 – 1891). To the right is the grave of his wife. Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.

An 1885 signed portrait postcard of the US author Herman Melville (1819 – 1891). By George G. Rockwood.

A c. 1846 portrait painting by Asa Weston Twitchell of the US author Herman Melville (1819 – 1891).