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With 2,000 square meters of exhibition space, the permanent exhibition offers numerous insights into the diverse and eventful cultural history of Silesia and explores the multicultural character of the region's history with influences from...

The area of eastern Europe which is today Ukraine, particularly the northern shore of the Black Sea, has attracted many cultures and empires over the centuries. In this collection, we examine the history of that region and look at the Scythians...

Mary Prince (l. c. 1788 to c. 1833) was the first enslaved Black woman to publish an autobiography/slave narrative. Prince was illiterate but dictated her life story to the writer Susanna Strickland (l. 1803-1885), published in 1831 as The...

A map illustrating the current archeological evidence for the spread of the Scythians in the northern Black Sea region. It shows the distribution of the most notable ‘kurgans’ and monumental burial sites of the riding nomads of the Scythian...

This terracotta head was made by an artist from the Inland Niger Delta Region of Mali. It dates from perhaps the 1300-1600s CE. (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto)

A map showing the area of the Languedoc region of southern France and its major towns.

This marble capital is decorated with heads of rams. Second half of the 5th to the first half of the 6th century CE. From structures within the walls of the Topkapi Palace, Mangana Region, Gulhane, Istanbul, Turkey. (Museum of Archaeology...

A map of the traditional areas inhabited by the Scythians, stretching east from the Ukraine.

This is a fragment of a frieze depicting a battle scene. It might perhaps depict a battle scene between ancient Greek warriors and the legendary Amazons. It comes from present-day Yubileynoye, which is located on Russia's Taman peninsula...

The Assyrian Empire and the Region about the Eastern Mediterranean, 750-625 BC.