Images

Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, Lanzelet Codex Palatinus Germanicus 371, 1420 CE

An illustration from the so-called "Rylands Haggadah", made in 14th Century CE Catalonia, Spain. The upper register of the illustration portrays the preparation for Passover by painting the doorposts with the blood of a sacrificial lamb...

Miniature depicting the preparation for Passover, from the Sister Haggadah manuscript, Barcelona, 14th century. In the upper register, a man distributes unleavened bread (matzot). In the lower register, two women clean the house for the...

An illustration of a Jewish family sitting around a Seder table and discussing the Haggadah during Passover. The image comes from a "Sister Haggadah", made in 14th Century CE Barcelona, Spain. The manuscript is now part of the collection...

An 1896 CE statue of Joan of Arc (l. c. 1412-1431 CE), Beaugency, Loiret, France.

A depiction of Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179 CE) receiving divine inspiration and dictating to a scribe. This illustration is copied from the frontispiece to the Rupertsberg manuscript of Scivias, the name for which derives from the Latin...

A papyrus letter, written in Aramaic, from the fortified island of Elephantine in Egypt. The letter was written c. 419 BCE by a Jewish man named Hananiah and is addressed to his brother Jedoniah and the rest of the Jews garrisoned at Elephantine...

The Mao oasis in Chad, Africa, site of the ancient Kingdom of Kanem (9-14th century CE).

An iron corslet from Borno in what is now Fika, Nigeria. The corslet was acquired by the British Museum in 1911, and is currently a part of the museum's collection.

An illustration of seven noted physicians and botanists from ancient Greece in the Vienna Dioscurides(aka the Juliana Anicia Codex), a 6th Century CE Byzantine manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscurides (c. 40 - 90 CE). The illustration...