Images

Dog amulet measuring 63.1 x 19.9 x 20.8 mm (2.4 x 0.78 x 0.81 inches), possibly from the period of the Liangzhu Culture in China (3400-2250 BCE). Jade dog amulets were often made and worn for protection and those of the Liangzhu Culture...

A scene from Aristophanes' comic play the Thesmophoriazusae on an Attic red-figure Krater. Apulia, 370 BCE. (Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Germany)

This U.S. National Park Services map shows the major ancestral Puebloan sites in the Four Corners area of what is now the United States of America.

The proposed location of the Lögberg (Law Rock) at which Iceland's Althing (General Assembly, founded by the Vikings in 930 CE) would have met until 1262 CE when Iceland was brought under Norwegian rule. It lies in Thingvellir which is now...

Photograph of a painting depicting Ingólfr Arnarson (c. 874 CE), who is considered the first historical settler of Iceland. His story is preserved in the Landnámabók and tells how, when his ship was just off the coast of Iceland, Ingólfr...

Map depicting (to the best of the author's imagination following the accounts) the possible exploration journeys of three of the earliest Vikings to come to Iceland, whose stories are considered semi-legendary. According to the Landnámabók...

Situated near Höfn on the east coast of Iceland is what looks like a genuine and immaculately preserved Viking village; in fact, it is a reconstructed Viking village built in 2010 CE for a film that was never filmed. Though obviously not...

The book cover of 'The Last Days of the Incas' by Kim MacQuarrie and published by Simon and Schuster.

Kim MacQuarrie, author of 'The Last Days of the Incas'.

A 13th century CE medieval manuscript illustration showing the coronation of Harold Godwinson, aka Harold II, the Anglo-Saxon king of England from January to October 1066 CE. (From 'The Life of King Edward the Confessor', Cambridge University...