EditorialSingapore: Pala dynasty (750 - 1161 CE) stone Buddha flanked by bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya (10th century), Asian Civilisations Museum, Empress Place Building
EditorialSingapore: Pala dynasty (750 - 1161 CE) stone Buddha flanked by bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya (10th century), Asian Civilisations Museum, Empress Place Building
EditorialTemple Model, 1400?1521, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Guerrero (?), Balsas River region, Aztec, Ceramic, H. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm), Ceramics-Sculpture, Aztec emperors ruled over a vast portion of what is now Central Mexico and parts of Guatemala at the time Spani...
EditorialPreliminary articles of the Treaty concluded at Fontainebleau on 3 November 1762 between the kingdoms of France and Spain. France ceded to Spain the historic North American territory of Louisiana, one of the administrative divisions of New France (the ...
EditorialSemitic inscription on the top of a foundation nail. Period of the Amorite Kingdoms (2004-1595 BCE). From Larsa, Babylon. Terracotta, 15,5 cm across. AO 6445.
EditorialGold disc pendant decorated with filigree and garnet inlay, Anglo-Saxon, early 7th century. From Acklam Wold, near Acklam, North Yorkshire. This is one of the largest and finest of many surviving Anglo-Saxon disc pendants. Disc pendants have been found...
EditorialExpulsion of the Moriscos from Spain by order of King Philip III in 1609 after debate in the Council of State. It was decided to expel the Moriscos on 9 April 1609, which the king approved. The expulsion began in the kingdom of Valencia. The Moriscos w...
EditorialAdoo Quamina, an Ashanti nobleman of the Gold Coast, 1820. A Voyage to Africa, including a narrative of an embassy to one of the interior Kingdoms in the year 1820, with remarks on the course and termination of the Niger and other principal rivers in t...