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Pottery amphora with applied jewel motifs and grotesque heads; neck and hands are missing. During the South and Northen dynasties, this jewel motif and other applied designs were adopted by Chinese potters further east for use in glazed ceramics...

This figure was made of a slipped and brown pigmented earthenware. It represents a male dancer, possibly an African or Indonesian. It was found in a Chinese tomb. Tang Dynasty, 8th century CE. (The British Museum, London).

The Fraumunster in Zurich, once a Benedictine abbey which was founded in the mid-9th century CE.

A fresco by the Swiss artist Paul Bodmer (1886-1983 CE) within the Fraumunster which illustrates the legend of its founding by Princesses Hildegard and Bertha in the mid-9th century CE.

A Roman fountain mosaic from Anzio depicting the hero Hercules and his faithful companion Iolaus. (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome)

A detail of a red-figure vase showing the king of Argos, Eurystheus, hiding from Hercules who, after one of his labours, carries the Erymanthian boar. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

This haniwa tomb figure is thought to represent a chieftain. He wears a tall wide-brimmed hat, his hair is plaited in a style called mizura, and there is a sword on his belt. It came from Ibaraki prefecture in eastern Japan; it was in this...

The Buddha sits on a canopied lotus throne in front of the Bodhi tree where he became enlighted. He is surrounded by attendants and Buddhist angels rain down flowers. Temple walls in China were decorated with such plaques and this one probably...

The interior of Grossmünster (“large cathedral” in German), a Romanesque ex-cathedral situated in the heart of Zürich, Switzerland, which was built over the course of the 11th and 13th centuries CE.

Grossmünster (“large cathedral” in German) is a Romanesque ex-cathedral situated in the heart of Zürich, Switzerland, which was built over the course of the 11th and 13th centuries CE.