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Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500 BCE. It is considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the Sumerian...

The Château de Chenonceau, picturesquely located astride the river Cher, in the Loire Valley town of Chenonceaux, France is a magnificent Renaissance-style building also known as le "Château des Dames" (the Ladies' Castle). Passing from hand...

Indian Sun Dance, wood engraving by Jules Tavernier and Paul Frenzeny in Harper's Weekly, January 2, 1875.

Depiction of the September Massacres (2-7 September 1792) at the prison of Abbaye, where around two-thirds of prisoners were murdered. Watercolor by Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, 19th century. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Painting of Vardhamana Mahavira, dated on 1900. Personal collection of photos of Jules Jain.

Le Souper de Beaucaire, or the Supper at Beaucaire, oil on canvas by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1869-1894. The Supper at Beaucaire was a pamphlet written by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1793, defending the necessity of France's Jacobin...

The Vendean rebels cross the Loire at the beginning of their ill-fated march dubbed "the Northwind Turn". The wounded General Louis-Marie de Lescure is prominently visible in the boat. Painting by Jules Girardet, 1882. Birkenhead Museum.

Meeting of Jean Cavalier, Camisard leader, and Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France, in Nîmes on 16 May 1704, painting by Jules Salles, c. 1865. Musée des Beaux-arts de Nîmes.

An 1866 oil on canvas, Jules Le Coeur in the Forest of Fontainebleau, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), the French impressionist painter. Renoir and other friends who were student artists went on frequent painting trips to the Fontainebleau...

Leucothea (1862), by Jean Jules Allasseur. South façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre Palace, Paris.