COVER—Jacques Marthelot/Bridgeman Images; 6—Courtesy Şükran Köroğlu; 9—Courtesy Tobias Skowronek; © The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY; 10—Brandon Clifford, Whydah Pirate Museum, Yarmouth, Massachusetts; Consortium of the Monumental City of Mérida; 12—Alamy Stock Photo; © A. Dagli; 16—Photo: Loïc Damelet, CNRS/CCJ, @Adriboats; Noriko Seguchi, James Frances Loftus, III, Shiori Yonemoto, Mary-Margaret Murphy, (3); 18—Italian Ministry of Culture; © Historic England Archive (3); 19—mariusltu/AdobeStock; Hemer et al., ; 20—Will Newton/Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism; Daniel Ladd/Alamy Stock Photo; 22—(clockwise, from top left) Photo by Patrick Saltonstall, Alutiiq Museum, 2023; C. B. González edited by M. J. Vilar Welter; K. Lane, ; Carlos Varela Scherrer (INAH); Courtesy Wayne Lusardi, Lake Huron Red Tails Project; 23—(clockwise, from top left) Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum; L. N. Gumilyov/Eurasian National University; Yanpeng Cao; M. Langley; © Museum August Kestner, Hannover/Photo Christian Tepper; 24—Album/Alamy Stock Photo; 26—Ministry of Culture of Croatia, Legacy of Gjuro Szabo; Photo: Nikola Cesarik (2); 27—© RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY; 28—© Gilles Mermet/Art Resource, NY; Scala/Art Resource, NY; © Vanni Archive/Art Resource, NY; 29—bpk Bildagentur/Art Resource, NY; Photo: Maja Grisonic; 30—Photo by Lu Haizi; Courtesy Liu Zhiyan; 32—Courtesy Liu Zhiyan; 33—Courtesy Liu Zhiyan (2); Photo by Lu Haizi; 34—CPA Media Pte Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo; 35—Photos by Lu Haizi (5); 36—Ludovic Slimak; 37—Ludovic Slimak and Laure Metz; 38—Ludovic Slimak; 39—Ludovic Slimak; Ségolène Vandevelde; 40—Attraction Art/Adobe Stock; INTERFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo; 41—Courtesy Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany, Museum no. VAT 09233; 42—Photo by Cécile Michel, © Kültepe Archaeological Mission (2); 43—© Kültepe Archaeological Mission; © 2019 Musée du Louvre/Antiquités orientales, AO 9256; 44—Courtesy Cécile Michel; © Kültepe Archaeological Mission (2); 45—Courtesy Charles University, Prague: 688; © Kültepe Archaeological Mission; 46—© DeA Picture Library/Art Resource, NY; 48—dimamoroz/AdobeStock; 49—Courtesy Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire-Lausanne: Ms 398; 50—Photographs by P. Maciuk; 51—Courtesy Andrzej Kokowski; 52—Steven Zucker/Wikimedia Commons; 53—Piotr Łuczkiewicz; 55—Courtesy Roger Atwood; 56—Courtesy Roger Atwood; 57—Courtesy Roger Atwood; 58—Courtesy William Fowler; 59—Courtesy William Fowler; 60—Courtesy William Fowler (2), Courtesy Roger Atwood; 61—Courtesy Roger Atwood; Courtesy William Fowler; 62—Courtesy Roger Atwood; 68—Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Bridgeman Art Library
