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Reconstructed Viking houses from the Viking Age trading centre of Hedeby (also known as Haithabu in German) in what used to be part of the Danish Vikings' territory. It now lies in Germany, near the city of Schleswig on the Jutland peninsula...

Title page of the first edition of the Zohar, Mantua, 1558 CE. Library of Congress.

Shabbatai Tzvi enthroned. Image from the Amsterdam Jewish publication Tikkun, depicting Sabbatai Zevi (Shabtai Tzvi) crowned as the messiah. Amsterdam, 1666 CE. Published in the 1901-1906 CE Jewish Encyclopedia.

Kabbalistic "Tree of life" with the ten Sefirot and the 22 Hebrew letters as they are presented in the Sefer Yetzirah.

Ten Sefirot on the Cordoba Synagogue's east wall, Spain.

The Vision of Ezekiel by Raphael, 1518. Pallazzo Pitti, Florence.

Spider Rock, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, USA. The canyon boasts 5,000 years of habitation, including the Ancestral Pueblan Culture from c. 700 CE.

The White House Ruins, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, USA. White House Ruins is a cliff dwelling connected to a four-story block on the base of a cliff which was inhabited from c. 1060-1275 CE

Hunting Petroglyphs from Canyon de Chelly, a protected site with 5,000 years of Native American inhabitation. Canyon de Chelly is located in the northeastern portion of the US state of Arizona within the Navajo Nation.

The castle of Miravet, north-east Spain, built by the medieval military order the Knights Templar (c. 1119-1312 CE), which they acquired in 1153 CE.