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Album leaf of shekasteh-ye nasta 'liq calligraphy, attributed to Mirza Kuchak, Iran, first half of the 19th century CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Native American women are traditionally held in high regard among the diverse nations, whether a given people are matrilineal or patrilineal. Traditionally, women were not only responsible for raising children and caring for the home but...

Portion of leaf C4r (annotated and with early ms. sketch of a bird pecking at the eye of a man hanged on a gallows in left margin) from one of two editions of Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum (Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, after 1500 CE) Penn Libraries...

Crow warrior Pine Leaf (associated with the figure known as Woman Chief), illustration from The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, edited by Thomas D. Bonner, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1856.

The 1902 Clover Leaf Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg is made of gold and green enamel clover leaves studded with rose diamonds and rubies...

Album leaf with Shi'a invocation in nasta' liq calligraphy, written by Muhammad Salih, Northern India, 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This column is from a temple primarily dedicated to he dam god Heryshef of Herakleopolis. Ramesses II is twice shown making offerings to a local form of Osiris. The god wears his typical feather crown but is in a kilt not his usual mummy...

In Ramesses II's reign, this column stood in a temple at Piramesse, his capital in the Nile Delta. In the central horizontal band, the king's Horus name and cartouches are twice shown being blessed by Seth, the god of chaos, who ranked among...

There were three principal painting techniques during the Renaissance: fresco, tempera, and oils. In all of these techniques, colour was an important part of the painter's armoury, allowing them to create images that would strike a chord...

The silphium plant of Cyrene, valued as a seasoning, aromatic, and for its medicinal properties, is referenced by several notable ancient writers, but two of the best-known descriptions come from Theophrastus (l. c. 371 to c. 287 BCE) and...