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Cheyenne War Chief Two Moons (l. 1847-1917), who led Cheyenne forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1910, published in 1911, in The North American Indian, Volume 6, plate no. 213. Northwestern...

The ruins of this fortress (Bayazit Kalesi) and tomb date back to the 9th century BCE Kingdom of Urartu just outside present-day Dogubayazit, Turkey. The Kingdom of Urartu was centered in modern-day eastern Turkey, southwest Armenia, and...

This exquisite gilded silver rhyton (wine drinking horn) terminates in the forepart of a naturalistically rendered stag. Incorporating stylistic elements of Achaemenid and Seleucid traditions, it was made in Parthia (northwestern Iran, ca...

Eight Sioux in Front of Tipis on the Pine Ridge Reservation, photo taken by the Northwestern Photographic Company, circa 1891. Courtesy of the National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.

Bowl depicting King Zahak with snakes protruding from his shoulders 12th–13th century CE, with alterations from the first half of the 20th century CE; or 20th century CE Northwestern Iran, Garrus District

This figurine is a combination of the Syrian goddess Astarte with the Egyptian Hathor-Sekhmet. The head is formed so that the front shows the face of a woman while the side view is the profile of a lioness. The goddesses were associated with...

Lare jar painted in red and black on beige. The paintings show animal scenes in two registers. In the lower register, two large snakes lie opposite each other. In the upper one, framed by horizontal lines and a zigzag motif on the jar's shoulder...

US soldiers place frozen corpses of Native Americans in a mass grave after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890. Photo by Trager and Kuhn, 1 January 1891, Wounded Knee, South Dakota Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division...

To the University of Ingolstadt (1523) is an open letter by the German reformer Argula von Grumbach (l. 1490 to c. 1564) protesting the dismissal, arrest, and imprisonment of the young scholar Arsacius Seehofer (l. c. 1504 to c. 1539) for...

An introduction to the civilization contemporaneous with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia that inhabited the region around the Indus River in modern day Pakistan and northwestern India.