Photo credits

Who made each picture on this site, its licence, and where it comes from.

1. 16th-century drawing of a line of peasants dancing wildly across a winter landscape, women held up by companions while bagpipers play alongside. Unknown, after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Rijksmuseum). CC0. Picture source

2. 16th-century etching of Adam and Eve beside a tree with a serpent coiled around its trunk, surrounded by a lion, deer, horses and other animals inside an ornate frame of fruit and scrollwork. Jean Mignon, after Luca Penni. CC0. Picture source

3. 19th-century painting of the two-masted ship Amazon, later renamed Mary Celeste, under sail on a choppy sea. Unknown (possibly Honoré Pellegrin). Public domain. Picture source

4. A 12th-century bas-relief at Angkor Wat showing the Battle of Lanka from the Ramayana, with warriors and chariots. Photo Dharma from Penang, Malaysia. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

5. A 12th-century Cambodian bronze figure of Hanuman in a leaping pose, arms and legs flung outward. CC0. Picture source

6. A 14th-century fresco of the patriarch Seth by Theophanes the Greek in the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street, Novgorod. Feofan Grek (Theophanes the Greek). Public domain. Picture source

7. A 1563 engraving of six standing figures from antiquity labelled Pythius, Lucullus, Crassus, Sylla, Croesus and Midas, with Lucullus second from left holding a banner. Philip Galle, after Maerten van Heemskerck. CC0. Picture source

8. A 16th-century painting of Cain raising a club over Abel, who lies struggling on the ground in a landscape. Frans Floris. Public domain. Picture source

9. A 17th-century candlelit painting of Esau, back from the hunt with a hare, at a table with Jacob over a bowl of food. Matthias Stom. Public domain. Picture source

10. A 17th-century painted icon of the prophets Enoch and Elijah seated before a rocky landscape, in the Historical Museum in Sanok. Unknown icon painter (photo: Przykuta). Public domain. Picture source

11. A 17th-century painting of Joshua in armor and a plumed helmet pointing to the sky to halt the sun as battle rages around him. Carlo Maratta. Public domain. Picture source

12. A 1959 colour photograph of General Robert Cutler riding a bicycle in front of a building with steps and trees. Toni Frissell. Public domain. Picture source

13. A 19th century reconstruction of Eratosthenes' map of the known world, about 194 BCE. Public domain. Picture source

14. A 19th-century Balinese painting of Aswatama (Ashvatthama) in ornate costume and headdress, drawn in the wayang style. Artist no. 7 (fl. ca. 1870-1879). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

15. A 19th-century drawing of an Assyrian relief from Nimrud showing a winged god with thunderbolt weapons chasing a winged monster. Austen Henry Layard (ed.), drawing by Ludwig Gruner. Public domain. Picture source

16. A 19th-century painting of Abraham leading his family, servants and herds out across a desert landscape. József Molnár. Public domain. Picture source

17. A 19th-century photograph of the carved naval battle relief on the wall of the Medinet Habu temple, showing ships and fighting figures. Antonio Beato. CC0. Picture source

18. A 5th-century floor mosaic from Mopsuestia showing Noah's Ark as a chest surrounded by rows of animals and birds, in the Adana Archaeological Museum. Dosseman. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

19. A 6th-century mosaic lunette in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna showing Abel's sacrifice on the left and Melchizedek's offering of bread and wine on the right. Sharon Mollerus. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

20. A black-and-white 1917 portrait photograph of Henry Adams Bellows in a suit and tie. Bain News Service. Public domain. Picture source

21. A black-and-white 19th-century portrait photograph of George Smith, a bearded man in a dark coat. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

22. A black-and-white Chinese woodblock print of a standing robed figure pointing a long staff at a kneeling man, framed by vertical inscriptions describing Kang Hui (Gonggong) starting a rebellion. Unknown Chinese woodblock artist. Public domain. Picture source

23. A black-and-white photo of UFO skeptic Philip J. Klass with UFO writer James Moseley, two men in glasses beside a briefcase. Robert Sheaffer. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

24. A black-and-white photograph of the Somerton Crippled Children's Home, a large two-storey seaside house with Norfolk pines, about 1939. Advertiser Newspapers Limited. Public domain. Picture source

25. A black-and-white portrait of astronomer Virginia Trimble with dark shoulder-length hair and a beaded necklace, smiling slightly. John Irwin (AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

26. A black-and-white studio portrait of the physicist Lloyd Berkner in a suit and bow tie, holding a pipe. NRAO/AUI/NSF. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

27. A brass telegraph key and sounder on a wooden base, made by J. H. Bunnell and Co.

    National Park Service photo (NPGallery). Public domain. Picture source

28. A bright cloud of solar material blasting outward from the masked disk of the Sun, seen by a coronagraph

    STEREO-A / NASA. Public domain. Picture source

29. A brightly painted page of the Codex Borgia showing the skeletal death god Mictlantecuhtli back to back with Quetzalcoatl above a skull-studded band, framed by day signs. Unknown pre-Columbian artist (1898 facsimile). Public domain. Picture source

30. A broken Old Babylonian clay tablet inscribed with the Atrahasis flood epic, on display in Room 56 of the British Museum. Popolon. Public domain. Picture source

31. A Byzantine fresco showing Jacob asleep beneath a ladder to heaven and, beside it, Jacob wrestling with an angel. José Luiz. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

32. A calm river and green meadow at Vanavara, Krasnoyarsk Krai, with a dark line of taiga forest under a cloud-dotted sky. Svetlana Sibiryakova. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

33. A canal at dusk in Qift, Qena Governorate, with silhouetted palm trees reflected in the still water. Максим Улитин. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

34. A carved stone relief at the Veerabhadra Temple, Lepakshi, showing two seated figures facing each other, identified as Shakuni and Yudhishthira at the game of dice. Vu2sga. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

35. A chromolithograph of Ravana raising a sword against the vulture Jatayu while the abducted Sita clings to him. Ravi Varma Press (Wellcome Collection). CC BY 4.0. Picture source

36. A close-up of red-painted runes carved into a grey stone on the Fyrby runestone in Södermanland, the detail that spells the word for Midgard. Berig. CC BY 2.5. Picture source

37. A composite telescope image of the SN 1006 supernova remnant, a glowing shell of gas against a field of stars. NASA/CXC; NRAO/AUI/NSF; Digitized Sky Survey; et al.. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

38. A cylindrical clay tablet covered in cuneiform script, a copy of the Curse of Agade, on display in the Louvre. Zunkir. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

39. A dark cave opening carved into eroded, layered marl cliffs at Qumran near the Dead Sea. Franco56. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

40. A detail of an ancient Greek red-figure krater showing Jason seizing the Golden Fleece from the guarding serpent while figures look on. ArchaiOptix. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

41. A fragment of an ancient papyrus from Oxyrhynchus written in Greek uncials, a copy of Herodotus' Histories, beside a ruler. Public domain. Picture source

42. A fragmentary early Byzantine terracotta icon from Vinica, North Macedonia, showing figures and horses in relief, titled the miracle of the prophet Elisha. Виолетова. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

43. A fragmentary papyrus page of the Codex Tchacos covered in faded Coptic writing. Unknown (Coptic scribe); scan by WolfgangRieger. Public domain. Picture source

44. A green hillside rising to the summit of Tountinna in the Arra Mountains of County Tipperary under a cloudy sky. Nicesunnyday19. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

45. A grey stone obelisk among green trees at Mikhailovskoe Cemetery in Yekaterinburg, the memorial over the Dyatlov group's grave, with nine small portraits on its base and a red star wreath at the bottom

    Dmitry Nikishin (Дмитрий Никишин), 12 June 2012. Public domain (released by the author). Picture source

46. A grey wash drawing of a line of sailing warships under a cloudy sky on open sea, depicting the Battle of the Dogger Bank in 1781. Dominic Serres. CC0. Picture source

47. A hand-colored 19th-century Bengali print of warriors with banners and spears clashing between two temples, with fallen fighters below, showing the battle of Kurukshetra. Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy. CC0. Picture source

48. A handwritten medieval page in Old English, the opening of the Peterborough Chronicle

    Monastic scribes of Peterborough (manuscript); photographed by Geogre. Public domain. Picture source

49. A handwritten page of the early 18th-century Ximénez manuscript of the Popol Vuh, in two columns of K'iche' and Spanish text. Francisco Ximénez. Public domain. Picture source

50. A highway running east through Tremonton, Utah, lined with low roadside businesses and power poles, with mountains under a clear sky ahead. An Errant Knight. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

51. A Japanese folding screen in ink and light color showing Emperor Yao's visit to Yu Chonghua (Shun) in a wide landscape of fields, villages and mountains, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Kusumi Morikage. CC0. Picture source

52. A landscape painting showing Adam and Eve leaving through a glowing rocky gateway from a lush sunlit paradise into a dark, stormy wilderness. Thomas Cole. Public domain. Picture source

53. A large old Lebanon cedar with spreading layered branches against a misty sky in the Cedars of God forest. Vyacheslav Argenberg. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

54. A leaf from a 1466 Latin manuscript of the Antiquities, made at Tyniec, National Library of Poland, Warsaw

    Picture: Josephus Flavius; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

55. A leaf of the Chester Beatty papyrus codex of the Greek Book of Enoch, covered in columns of Greek script. Public domain. Picture source

56. A leaf-covered path running between tall trees in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, with a wooden bench at left. Martin Pettitt. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

57. A limestone temple altar from Assur offered by Tukulti-Ninurta I, its front carved in relief with standing figures holding standards topped with rosettes. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

58. A line of doorways in the ruins of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Public domain. Picture source

59. A long vaulted college library at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, lined with wooden bookcases and reading tables. Jorge Royan. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

60. A long, crenellated stretch of the ancient stone city wall of Derbent on the Caspian coast. Vyacheslav Bukharov. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

61. A lump of dark peat lying on sand among razor shells on the beach at Titchwell, Norfolk. Hugh Venables. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

62. A Malwa-school Ramayana painting of Rama and Lakshmana seated under a tree, with Hanuman, Vibhishana and Jambavan standing before them and rows of monkeys and bears below. Sailko. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

63. A medieval gold-ground mosaic in Monreale Cathedral showing God seated on the left breathing life into Adam, who reclines on a hillside. Rabe!. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

64. A medieval stained-glass figure of the bearded Jared, labeled IARETH, in a window of Canterbury Cathedral. Jules & Jenny. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

65. A medieval stained-glass window in Canterbury Cathedral with two seated, labeled figures, Methuselah above and Lamech below. Jules & Jenny. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

66. A mid-12th-century manuscript of Pliny's Natural History from the Abbey of Saint-Vincent, Le Mans, photographed at the Musee de Cluny, Paris

    Picture: PHGCOM; Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

67. A modern clay impression rolled from a Sumerian cylinder seal of 4000-3100 BC, in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. Neoclassicism Enthusiast. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

68. A Mughal manuscript painting of the sage Vyasa standing in a green landscape with rocky hills and trees, bending toward a small worm on the ground beside a pond. Unknown Mughal artist. CC0. Picture source

69. A Mughal manuscript painting showing King Sal (Shalva) meeting Kala Yavana before a city, with a canopied pavilion floating in the clouds above. Unknown Mughal artist. CC0. Picture source

70. A Northwest Airlines Boeing 727-51 with a red tail taxiing at Miami International Airport in 1989. Michael Bernhard. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

71. A Northwest Orient Boeing 727 on the ground in 1975 with the rear airstair lowered under its tail

    Robert Rynerson. CC BY 2.5. Picture source

72. A page from a medieval Armenian manuscript of Eusebius's Chronicle, one of the books that preserved fragments of Berossus

    Picture: Unknown author; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

73. A page from a Sanskrit manuscript of one book of the Satapatha Brahmana, dated 1810, Bibliotheque nationale de France (Sanscrit 317)

    Picture: Unknown author; Public domain, PD-1923, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

74. A page from an old Chinese printed book with a woodcut figure of the scholar Huangfu Mi in long robes beneath his name. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

75. A page from the 1959 criminal case file: the investigator's decision of 18 May 1959 ordering a radiological examination of the hikers' clothing

    Prosecutor-criminologist L. N. Ivanov, 18 May 1959 (case file vol. 1, page 370). Public domain (Russian official document, not an object of copyright under article 1259 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). Picture source

76. A page of a Greek manuscript of Plutarch's Parallel Lives (Oxford, MS. Canonici Greek 93). Unknown scribe. Public domain. Picture source

77. A page of a Greek manuscript of Procopius' De bellis (History of the Wars), Venice, Gr. 398. Public domain. Picture source

78. A page of a medieval Irish manuscript with dense dark Gaelic script and a large decorated initial letter at the top left, from the Book of Lismore. Unknown scribe (facsimile in Stokes's 1890 edition). Public domain. Picture source

79. A page of an old Syriac manuscript of Jacob of Serugh's writings, with columns of Syriac script. Gorgias Press. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

80. A page of dense medieval Irish script from the 14th-century Book of Ballymote, with a decorated initial. Unknown medieval scribes. Public domain. Picture source

81. A page of Plutarch's Moralia (On Virtue and Vice) in a Greek manuscript made for Cardinal Bessarion in 1455, Biblioteca Marciana, Venice (Gr. 248)

    Picture: Plutarch; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

82. A page of the 14th-century Troitsky copy of the Merilo Pravednoe (The Just Balance), the Russian law book whose excerpts are the oldest copy of any part of 2 Enoch; this page is not one of the Enoch passages

    Picture: Греков Б.Д.; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

83. A page of the Argonautica in a Greek manuscript of 1280, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence (Plut. 32.16, folio 207v)

    Picture: Apollonius of Rhodes; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

84. A page of the medieval Munich Talmud manuscript (Codex Munich 95) with Hebrew text in columns and marginal notes. Shlomo ben Shimshon (scribe). Public domain. Picture source

85. A Pahari painting showing Ravana's golden-yellow fortress of Lanka on the left, with the monkey Angada leaping from its walls toward Rama's camp on a green hillside. Manaku (Guler, c. 1725). CC0. Picture source

86. A painted page from the Ramayana made for Bir Singh Deo Bundela at Orchha, about 1604, described on Commons as the earliest surviving illustrated Ramayana with Sanskrit text

    Picture: Bundela Painters; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

87. A painted relief of Pharaoh Seti I from his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, now in the Neues Museum, Berlin. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

88. A painting of warriors feasting and drinking in a great hall with carved red-and-gold pillars, a fire and a wolf beside a helmeted figure at the right. Emil Doepler. Public domain. Picture source

89. A pale yellow, translucent piece of Libyan desert glass with smooth, wind-worn surfaces, photographed against a white background. James St. John. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

90. A papyrus fragment with lines of the Odyssey, Ptolemaic Egypt, about 285 to 250 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (09.182.50)

    Picture: Unknown author; CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

91. A papyrus page from Nag Hammadi Codex II with lines of Coptic text and a centered title. Public domain. Picture source

92. A parchment folio of an 8th-century Qur'an written in bold brown Kufic script with a gold illuminated band. Richard Mortel (Prof. Mortel). CC BY 2.0. Picture source

93. A path leading through grassy earthen banks into the reconstructed 16th-century earthwork fort at Fort Raleigh, Roanoke Island, surrounded by woods. Sarah Stierch. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

94. A paved stone ramp running between ancient stone walls at the archaeological site of Troy. Jorge Láscar from Australia. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

95. A Persian manuscript page with a painting of King Solomon enthroned among attendants as the hoopoe brings him news of the Queen of Sheba. CC0. Picture source

96. A Persian manuscript painting in which figures of the people of 'Ad are tossed into the sky by a wind while the prophet Hud and his followers stand below. Public domain. Picture source

97. A Persian manuscript painting of Elias and Khizr, haloed in flames, kneeling at the Fountain of Life beneath a dark hill, with horses and riders around them. CC0. Picture source

98. A Persian manuscript painting of Seth (Shith), haloed in flame, seated and teaching the young Enosh (Anush), who kneels before him. Unknown Persian painter. Public domain. Picture source

99. A photograph of the author Erich von Däniken. Michal Maňas. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

100. A piece of Libyan desert glass in the University of Arizona Mineral Museum

     Daderot. CC0. Picture source

101. A priest carrying a sacred painting walks toward the Chapel of the Tablet at Axum in late afternoon sun, with the old Church of St. Mary of Zion to the right. A. Davey. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

102. A printed Soviet legal form filled in by hand in ink: the 26 February 1959 decision to open a criminal case after the hikers were found on height 1079

     Ivdel prosecutor V. I. Tempalov, 26 February 1959 (case file vol. 1, page 1). Public domain (Russian official document, not an object of copyright under article 1259 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). Picture source

103. A relief map of the North Atlantic marking the Storegga Slide in red off Norway and blue dots where its tsunami deposits were found in Scotland, Shetland, the Faroes and Norway. Alastair G. Dawson et Sue Dawson,. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

104. A Renaissance painting of the winged angel Raphael walking hand in hand with the young Tobias, who carries a fish, through a rocky landscape. Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. Public domain. Picture source

105. A rock-cut relief in Ellora Cave 29 showing the many-armed Ravana shaking Mount Kailasa, with Shiva and Parvati seated above. Arian Zwegers. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

106. A Roman floor mosaic portrait of a bearded Hesiod, labeled ESIODVS, framed by a braided border, from the Monnus Mosaic in Trier. Following Hadrian (Carole Raddato). CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

107. A Roman marble portrait bust of the emperor Vespasian in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

108. A Roman marble portrait head of Plato in the Glyptothek, Munich. Zde. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

109. A Roman wall painting from the House of the Dioscuri in Pompeii showing Medea just before she murders her children, now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Carole Raddato. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

110. A Russian manuscript miniature showing robed, haloed men carving and finishing small idol statues on stone blocks in front of a row of buildings, with Old Russian text above and below. Anonymous Russian manuscript illuminators. Public domain. Picture source

111. A section of a vitrified rampart at Kemp Law, South Ayrshire, where stones fused by intense heat form a dark, glassy, bubbled mass beneath reddish soil and moss. Rosser1954. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

112. A sheet of Papyrus D'Orbiney with the Tale of Two Brothers in hieratic, end of the 19th Dynasty, British Museum

     Picture: ancient Egyptian; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

113. A small limestone head of a 1st-Dynasty Egyptian king, which Petrie thought represented Narmer, in the Petrie Museum in London. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

114. A smiling Ian Ridpath in glasses and a blue jacket, photographed outdoors by the water in 2015. Einarolaf. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

115. A Song dynasty hanging-scroll portrait by Ma Lin of the sage king Yao standing in red and dark robes beneath a calligraphy inscription. Ma Lin. Public domain. Picture source

116. A statue of Igor Kurchatov in front of the colonnaded headquarters building of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. Alexander Liskin. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

117. A steep sandstone pyramid of the Kushite royal cemetery at Meroe standing in desert sand, Sudan. Dbxsoul. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

118. A tall grey archive building on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street in Moscow, part of the complex housing the State Archive of the Russian Federation. Vigoshi. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

119. A tall steel power line tower in Quebec holding bundles of high-voltage wires against the sky

     abdallahh from Montreal, Canada (Flickr). CC BY 2.0. Picture source

120. A Tang-dynasty silk painting of Nüwa and Fuxi as two robed figures with intertwined serpent tails, holding a compass and a carpenter's square, among dots representing stars, with sun and moon discs above and below. Unknown Tang-dynasty painter. Public domain. Picture source

121. A typed CIA memorandum about MKULTRA Subproject 119 with names blacked out by redaction. US Central Intelligence Agency. Public domain. Picture source

122. A US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet of the Black Aces squadron (VFA-41) refueling from a KC-135R tanker in July 2004. U.S. Navy photo. Public domain. Picture source

123. A Vendidad Sade manuscript copied in Yazd, Iran, in 1647, open at the first chapter, on display at the British Library, London

     Picture: Daderot; CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

124. A view from the heathery slopes of Knockma hill in County Galway over flat green farmland under heavy clouds. Jeoun. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

125. A view over heather-covered upland to Lough Arrow in County Sligo, with green farmland and low hills under a grey cloudy sky. Enter. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

126. A weathered red sandstone statue of Balarama standing under a canopy of snake hoods, from the Kushan period, in the Government Museum, Mathura. Biswarup Ganguly. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

127. A weathered stone grave marker carved with a cross and the words Professor Hugo Odeberg, 1898-1973, in Lund, Sweden. Hedning. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

128. A weathered stone statue of a standing lion from Eridu, dating to about the mid-3rd millennium BCE, in the Iraq Museum. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

129. A wide view across terraced fields and olive trees toward a hilltop village and distant towns, captioned on Commons as Gibeon. Natritmeyer. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

130. A wood-panelled reading room with bookcases and tall windows in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Michael D Beckwith. CC0. Picture source

131. A worn Gallo-Roman stone relief of a bearded three-faced head, identified as the Celtic god Lugus. Gérald Garitan. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

132. A-10A of the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, the U.S. unit based at RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge, 1980. Public domain. Picture source

133. Adam and the angels watched by Iblis, from a 16th century Ottoman manuscript, Topkapi Palace Library

     Maruf Baghdadi, Topkapi Palace Library. Public domain. Picture source

134. Admiral Stansfield Turner, former Director of Central Intelligence, official Navy photo, 1983. Public domain. Picture source

135. Aerial photograph of Lake Merwin, a long reservoir among forested hills in southwest Washington

     Ryan Harvey (Flickr). CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

136. Aerial photograph of the five-sided Pentagon building and its surrounding parking lots and roads, May 15, 2023. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. John Wright, DOD. Public domain. Picture source

137. Aerial view of Tell es-Sultan, the ancient mound of Jericho. Public domain. Picture source

138. Aerial view of the Air Force One hangar at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. Public domain. Picture source

139. Aerial view of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Arroyo Seco, Pasadena, California. Public domain. Picture source

140. Aerial view of the river entrance of the Pentagon during its renovation, 2003. Public domain. Picture source

141. Aerial view of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Public domain. Picture source

142. Ahriman in a 19th century French engraving from Mythologie pittoresque

     Mythologie pittoresque, 19th century. Public domain. Picture source

143. Ain Shems, the site of Beth-shemesh, from Picturesque Palestine, 1880s, New York Public Library. Public domain. Picture source

144. Akkadian cylinder seal and its modern impression showing a battle of the gods, Metropolitan Museum of Art

     Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

145. Alexander (Iskandar), often identified with Dhul-Qarnayn, visits Elijah and Khizr at the Fountain of Life, folio from a Persian Shahnama

     Shahnama manuscript. Public domain. Picture source

146. Alexander the Great in the Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii, about 100 BCE. Public domain. Picture source

147. Alexandre Cabanel's painting Fallen Angel, 1847

     Alexandre Cabanel, 1847. Public domain. Picture source

148. Allen Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence. Public domain. Picture source

149. An 18th-century engraving of Shem and Japheth covering their sleeping father Noah with a cloak. After Clément Pierre Marillier. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

150. An 18th-century manuscript page showing the archangel Metatron in white robes holding a sword among candlesticks, framed by magical letters and symbols. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

151. An 18th-century painting of the prophet Elijah carried upward in a chariot drawn by fiery horses while Elisha reaches up from below. Giuseppe Angeli. CC0. Picture source

152. An aerial view of the CIA headquarters complex at Langley, Virginia: low office buildings and large parking lots set among dense green woodland. Carol M. Highsmith. Public domain. Picture source

153. An aerial view of the CIA headquarters complex in Langley, Virginia, surrounded by parking lots and woods. Pi.1415926535. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

154. An aerial view of the excavated mound of Tel Megiddo above the green fields of the Jezreel Valley. Israel_photo_gallery. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

155. An aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, with its five-sided rings, central courtyard and surrounding highways and parking lots. Touch Of Light. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

156. An ancient carnelian intaglio gem engraved with a lion-headed serpent, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

157. An ancient Egyptian wooden boat model with oarsmen and a coffin under a canopy, in the Museo Egizio, Turin. Museo Egizio. CC0. Picture source

158. An ancient silk painting of Fuxi and Nüwa as two figures with entwined serpent tails, holding measuring tools beneath a sun and stars. Public domain. Picture source

159. An Assyrian stone relief from Nimrud showing a pair of winged protective spirits (apkallu). Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

160. An early 19th-century Datia-style painting of the sage Shukadeva and King Parikshit, with palaces, chariots and a river. SpeakingArch. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

161. An early 20th-century black-and-white photograph of sunrise seen from the rocky summit of Mount Hermon. Matson Photo Service. Public domain. Picture source

162. An early black-and-white photograph of a village with palm trees near Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt, surrounded by Nile floodwater. Unknown (Bibliothèque nationale de France). CC0. Picture source

163. An Edo-period Japanese manuscript page showing a woman holding a box beside a drawing of the round, windowed hollow boat, with handwritten notes. Yashiro Hirokata. Public domain. Picture source

164. An engraving of two men carrying a huge cluster of grapes on a pole between them, with other spies and hills behind, from a series on the history of Moses. Unknown engraver (Rijksmuseum collection). CC0. Picture source

165. An Ethiopian church painting of the Queen of Sheba riding a horse. A. Davey. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

166. An F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz

     US Navy photo, F/A-18E Super Hornet launching from USS Nimitz. Public domain. Picture source

167. An illuminated manuscript page from the Amida Gospels showing a portrait of the Evangelist Luke. Walters Art Museum. CC0. Picture source

168. An illuminated manuscript title page for Snorri Sturluson's Edda, framed by roundels of Odin, his ravens Huginn and Muninn, Thor's hammer, Heimdall blowing his horn, Sleipnir, the cow Audhumla, the wolf Fenrir and the hall Valhalla. Unknown Icelandic artist. Public domain. Picture source

169. An illuminated page from a manuscript of Pliny the Elder's Natural History in the Laurentian Library, Florence (Plut. 82.4). Unknown scribe. Public domain. Picture source

170. An illustrated title page from an Icelandic manuscript of Snorri Sturluson's Edda, surrounded by roundels of Odin, his ravens, Thor's hammer, Heimdall, Sleipnir and other figures. Unknown Icelandic scribe. Public domain. Picture source

171. An Indian miniature painting of the sage Valmiki seated cross-legged before a thatched hut on an orange ground, speaking to a pupil seated opposite him beside trees. Unknown Indian painter (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). CC0. Picture source

172. An Indian painting in the Musée Guimet of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana arriving at the forest hermitage of the sage Bharadvaja, with thatched huts beneath rocky hills. dalbera. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

173. An infrared mosaic of the entire sky from NASA's WISE telescope, with the Milky Way as a glowing band across the middle. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA. Public domain. Picture source

174. An old engraving after Rembrandt of Manoah and his wife kneeling at an altar fire while the angel rises away above them. After Rembrandt (Wellcome Collection). CC BY 4.0. Picture source

175. An old engraving of a procession carrying the Ark of the Covenant through a landscape toward Jerusalem. Unknown (Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-45.337). CC0. Picture source

176. An old engraving of the prophet Micaiah standing before two enthroned, crowned kings surrounded by a crowd of prophets. Christoph Weigel. Public domain. Picture source

177. An old painting of Pharaoh handing Sarah back to Abraham before a palace, with courtiers around them. Unknown (Rijksmuseum SK-A-1191). CC0. Picture source

178. An old photograph of the lone obelisk of Senusret I standing among trees at Heliopolis, Egypt, with visitors near its base. Unknown (Rijksmuseum RP-F-1999-139-1-66). CC0. Picture source

179. An open old volume of the Babylonian Talmud with dense Hebrew text. Sodabottle. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

180. An open Persian manuscript with a double-page painting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba enthroned, attended by angels, demons, animals, birds and the vizier Asaf. Malik Husayn Isfahani. Public domain. Picture source

181. An open spread of the Voynich manuscript with painted plants and lines of its unknown script. Public domain. Picture source

182. Ancient coin of Helike, the Achaean city swallowed by the sea in 373 BCE

     Coin of Helike. Public domain. Picture source

183. Ancient ruins on Elephantine Island, Aswan. CC0. Picture source

184. Angel Jibril shields Ibrahim from the fire of Nimrod, Persian manuscript of the Stories of the Prophets, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

     Persian manuscript, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Public domain. Picture source

185. Arabic manuscript page with the text of the Emerald Tablet, Leipzig, Vollers 832

     Leipzig University Library. Public domain. Picture source

186. Archaeologist Klaus Schmidt at Monumento 2014. CC0. Picture source

187. Archaeologist Nahman Avigad in 1950. Public domain. Picture source

188. Archaeologist V. Gordon Childe, about the 1930s. Public domain. Picture source

189. Army scientist Frank Olson in 1953. Public domain. Picture source

190. Ashdod on 24 March 1839, color lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, Library of Congress. Public domain. Picture source

191. Ashurbanipal's royal lion hunt, relief from the North Palace of Nineveh, about 645 to 635 BCE, British Museum. Public domain. Picture source

192. Ashvatthama fires the Narayana weapon at the Pandavas, Razmnama manuscript, about 1598. Patron: 'Abd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad Bairam Khan Khan-i Khanan (Indian, Delhi 1556. CC0. Picture source

193. Assyrian relief of a hero holding a lion, often identified as Gilgamesh, from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, 8th century BCE, Louvre

     Assyrian relief, Khorsabad, Louvre. Public domain. Picture source

194. Assyrian relief of a winged apkallu sage from Nimrud

     Assyrian relief, Nimrud. CC0. Picture source

195. Assyrian relief of the capture of Astartu (biblical Ashtaroth in Bashan) by Tiglath-Pileser III, about 730 BCE, British Museum. Public domain. Picture source

196. Astronaut photograph from 2008 of Gardner Island (Nikumaroro), a ring-shaped atoll in the Pacific, partly covered by cloud.

     NASA Johnson Space Center, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit (ISS Expedition 18). Public domain (created by NASA). Picture source

197. Athanasius Kircher's 1678 map of Atlantis between Africa, Spain and America

     Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus, 1678. Public domain. Picture source

198. Athenian red-figure drinking cup by the Foundry Painter whose outside shows sculptors in a bronze foundry making statues; inside, Hephaistos gives Thetis new armour for Achilles. ArchaiOptix. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

199. Baruch the scribe, engraving by Gustave Dore, 1866. Public domain. Picture source

200. Basalt water basin from Assur carved with the god Ea and fish-cloaked apkallu sages, 7th century BCE, Pergamon Museum. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

201. Benjamin Jowett at 76. Public domain. Picture source

202. Benjamin Radford presenting a workshop at CFI Los Angeles. CC0. Picture source

203. Bermuda seen from the International Space Station: a hook-shaped chain of islands ringed by turquoise reef in the dark blue Atlantic, with scattered small clouds. Matthew Dominick, NASA. Public domain. Picture source

204. Berossus as imagined in an early modern engraved portrait

     Unknown engraver. CC0. Picture source

205. Bethel photographed by Francis Frith in the 19th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

206. Black and white photo from February 1959: two searchers in heavy coats look at the Dyatlov group's tent, collapsed and half covered by snow on an open slope, with a ski standing upright in the snow

     Photograph by searcher Vadim Brusnitsyn, 26 or 28 February 1959, from the case file. Public domain (Russian official document, PD-RU-exempt, as tagged on Wikimedia Commons). Picture source

207. Black and white photograph of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan beside the Lockheed Electra at Darwin, Australia, 28 June 1937.

     Unknown photographer (no author recorded on Commons). Public domain (published in the United States 1931 to 1963, copyright not renewed). Picture source

208. Black and white photograph of the battleship USS Colorado in the 1930s with Vought O3U-3 Corsair floatplanes on her catapults.

     U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (photograph NH 55275). Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government). Picture source

209. Black and white photograph of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca at sea.

     United States Coast Guard. Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government). Picture source

210. Black-and-white head-and-shoulders photograph of Amelia Earhart standing under the nose of her Lockheed Electra, 1937. Underwood & Underwood. Public domain. Picture source

211. Black-and-white studio portrait of Richard E. Byrd in a suit and striped tie, 1928. Underwood & Underwood. Public domain. Picture source

212. Blake engraving of a row of angels with raised arms among the stars above God, who spreads his arms over Job, his wife and friends below, framed by small scenes of the days of creation. William Blake. CC0. Picture source

213. Both faces of a worn silver Roman Republican denarius, one with a female head and the other with a standing figure, beside a centimeter scale. St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

214. Bronze head of the emperor Decius found at Sarmizegetusa, Romania. CC0. Picture source

215. Bronze horse ornament inscribed with the name of Pliny the Elder as cavalry commander, from Xanten, British Museum. Public domain. Picture source

216. Bronze step inscribed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar II, as published by E. A. Wallis Budge, 1884. Public domain. Picture source

217. Bruegel's crowded painting of the archangel Michael and armoured angels driving a swarm of grotesque hybrid demons down from a bright heaven. Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Public domain. Picture source

218. Bruegel's painting of the enormous, half-built Tower of Babel spiralling up beside a harbour city, with King Nimrod and stonemasons in the foreground. Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Public domain. Picture source

219. Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong during Apollo 11

     NASA, Neil Armstrong. Public domain. Picture source

220. Byzantine manuscript leaf with a gold-ground miniature of Moses climbing a mountain to receive the Law from a hand in the sky, with haloed figures and a group of elders below, framed by a patterned border and Greek captions. Walters Art Museum (unknown Byzantine illuminator). CC0. Picture source

221. Caravaggio's painting of Abraham pressing a knife toward the young Isaac while an angel grasps his arm and a ram looks on. Caravaggio. Public domain. Picture source

222. Carrington's 1859 sketch of a large group of dark sunspots, with small lettered marks where the flare appeared

     Richard Christopher Carrington (1859). Public domain. Picture source

223. Carved stone Pillar 27 at Göbekli Tepe with an animal relief

     Pillar 27, Enclosure C, Göbekli Tepe. CC0. Picture source

224. Carved stone relief figures of David and Goliath on the 10th-century Armenian Church of the Holy Cross on Akdamar Island. Dosseman. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

225. Cassiodorus seated opposite King Theodoric, frontispiece of a medieval Gesta Theodorici manuscript, Leiden. Public domain. Picture source

226. Cave 4 at Qumran, where many of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found

     Effi Schweizer. Public domain. Picture source

227. Chandra X-ray image of the remnant of the supernova of 1006

     NASA Chandra X ray Observatory, Smithsonian Institution. Public domain. Picture source

228. Chart from Project Blue Book Status Report No. 8 showing how often UFOs were reported, National Archives

     U.S. Air Force, National Archives. Public domain. Picture source

229. Chart of Greenland ice core temperature estimates showing the sudden Younger Dryas cold spell

     USGS data, chart edited by Osetnik. Public domain. Picture source

230. Chinese illustration of Nuwa raising an army against Gonggong

     Unknown Chinese illustrator. Public domain. Picture source

231. Christ Pantocrator, a 6th century icon at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, one of the oldest surviving icons of Jesus. Public domain. Picture source

232. Clay bathtub in the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. Public domain. Picture source

233. Clay mask of the demon Humbaba, Louvre

     Shonagon. CC0. Picture source

234. Clay tablet fragment of the Epic of Etana, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

     Daderot. Public domain. Picture source

235. Clay tablet of the Atrahasis flood epic from Sippar, British Museum room 56

     Wikimedia Commons user photo, public domain. Public domain. Picture source

236. Clay tablet of the Instructions of Shuruppak, a Sumerian proverb collection of about 2400 BCE, Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago

     Daderot. CC0. Picture source

237. Clement Reid's 1913 map of the Dogger Bank showing the likely coastline when the sea was at its lowest

     Clement Reid, Submerged Forests, 1913. Public domain. Picture source

238. Close view of the growth rings in a cut slab from a tree about 1,500 years old

     Thomas Quine (photographed at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 2015). CC BY 2.0. Picture source

239. Color photograph of a beach on Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) with low trees, coconut palms and pale sand.

     Angela K. Kepler. Public domain (released by the author). Picture source

240. Color photograph of a coconut crab (Birgus latro) climbing on Niue in the South Pacific; the same kind of crab lives on Nikumaroro.

     fearlessRich (Flickr). CC BY 2.0. Picture source

241. Color photograph of Tatiman Passage, the channel into the lagoon of Nikumaroro (Gardner Island), with green bush on each bank.

     Angela K. Kepler. Public domain (released by the author). Picture source

242. Colossal stone statue of the god Thoth as a seated baboon at Hermopolis, from the reign of Amenhotep III. Einsamer Schütze. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

243. Columns of black and red hieratic writing on the ancient Egyptian papyrus that preserves the Admonitions of Ipuwer. Public domain. Picture source

244. Columns of blue-painted hieroglyphs carved into the stone walls inside the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara. Aidan McRae Thomson. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

245. Copy of a rock inscription near Aswan showing King Merenre receiving the submission of Nubian chiefs. Public domain. Picture source

246. Copy of the Uzziah burial plaque, a 1st century inscription saying the bones of Uzziah king of Judah were brought here. Public domain. Picture source

247. Crumbling stone tower ruins above a collapsed limestone sinkhole at the Shisr site in Oman, identified with Ubar. Armatus1995. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

248. Crumbling stone walls of the ruined fortress at Shisr in Oman, the site identified with Ubar. 9591353082 (English Wikipedia user). CC BY 2.5. Picture source

249. Daniel Chester French's 1923 marble sculpture The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair

     Daderot (photo); sculpture by Daniel Chester French. CC0. Picture source

250. David Grusch giving testimony before a US House subcommittee on 26 July 2023. U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. Public domain. Picture source

251. Decayed, fused twenty-dollar bills from the 1971 ransom, found in the sand by the Columbia River in 1980

     Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Public domain. Picture source

252. Desert landscape in Wadi Rum, Jordan. CC0. Picture source

253. Design view of the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island by its architect Alfred Messel. Public domain. Picture source

254. Detail of the Adda Seal, an Akkadian cylinder seal of about 2300 BCE, showing Enki (Ea) with streams of water and fish, British Museum

     Adda Seal, British Museum. Public domain. Picture source

255. Detail of the Sun God Tablet from Sippar, a carved stone relief showing the enthroned sun god Shamash in his shrine, in the British Museum. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

256. Diorite victory stele of Sargon of Akkad, about 2300 BCE, Louvre. CC0. Picture source

257. Domed temples and stepped ghats lining the Sarayu river at Ram ki Paidi in Ayodhya, lit by warm low sunlight. Ramnath Bhat from PUNE, India. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

258. Drawing of an Assyrian relief from Nimrud showing a figure in a fish cloak, the image later linked to Oannes

     Austen Henry Layard, Monuments of Nineveh, 1853. Public domain. Picture source

259. Drawing of the Sea Peoples battle relief on the temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu

     Drawing of the Medinet Habu relief. Public domain. Picture source

260. Drawing of the Shakuna vimana made in Bangalore in 1923 for the Vaimanika Shastra

     T. K. Ellappa, 1923. Public domain. Picture source

261. Drawing of the statue of Marduk with his dragon, from a 9th century BCE Babylonian cylinder seal of king Marduk-zakir-shumi

     Drawing by Franz Heinrich Weissbach. Public domain. Picture source

262. Drawing of the stone relief from the temple of Ninurta at Nimrud, about 883 to 859 BCE, showing the god with thunderbolts

     Katolophyromai, after Layard. CC0. Picture source

263. E. A. Wallis Budge pictured in The Illustrated London News, January 1920. Public domain. Picture source

264. Early fresco of Saint Paul in the Grotto of Saint Paul at Ephesus. Public domain. Picture source

265. Earthrise, photographed by Bill Anders from Apollo 8 on December 24, 1968

     NASA, Bill Anders. Public domain. Picture source

266. Egyptian statuette of the ibis-headed god Thoth, Metropolitan Museum of Art

     Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

267. Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in full dress. Public domain. Picture source

268. Emperor Justinian with Bishop Maximianus and his court, mosaic of about 547 CE in San Vitale, Ravenna. Public domain. Picture source

269. Engraved portrait of Bernardino Drovetti. Public domain. Picture source

270. Engraving of an Assyrian relief from Nimrud showing a god chasing a winged monster, long reproduced as Marduk fighting Tiamat

     Austen Henry Layard, Monuments of Nineveh. Public domain. Picture source

271. Engraving of Flavius Josephus by John Sartain, an imagined 19th century portrait. Public domain. Picture source

272. Enheduanna shown on the alabaster disk found at Ur, about 2300 BCE, Penn Museum. CC0. Picture source

273. Entrance of the Museo Egizio in Turin. Public domain. Picture source

274. Epiphanius of Salamis in a 14th century fresco at Gracanica Monastery. Public domain. Picture source

275. Eroded mud-brick ruins of the ancient city of Gaochang near Turpan standing against a clear blue sky. Hiroki Ogawa. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

276. Eroded mud-brick ruins on the mound of Eridu in the flat southern Iraqi desert. David Stanley. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

277. Eusebius of Caesarea with Carpianus in an Ethiopian Gospel manuscript from Amba Geshen. Public domain. Picture source

278. Excavated stone walls of the ancient settlement at Qumran with barren desert hills behind. Daniel Maleck Lewy. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

279. Excavation at Tall el-Hammam in the Jordan Valley. Public domain. Picture source

280. Excavations at Mohenjo-daro in 1924. Public domain. Picture source

281. Ezra reads the Law to the people, engraving by Gustave Dore. Public domain. Picture source

282. Facsimile of folio 53 of the 12th century Book of Leinster, one of the manuscripts that preserves the Lebor Gabala Erenn, Trinity College Dublin

     Book of Leinster, Trinity College Dublin. Public domain. Picture source

283. Facsimile of the papyrus marsh painting from the Green Room of the North Palace at Amarna. CC0. Picture source

284. FBI wanted poster for the man who hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 in 1971

     Federal Bureau of Investigation (U.S. Federal Government). Public domain. Picture source

285. Feluccas on the Nile at Aswan, Egypt. Vyacheslav Argenberg. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

286. Ferdowsi with the court poets of Ghazna, folio from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, about 1532. Public domain. Picture source

287. First page of the 1469 Venice first printed edition of Pliny's Natural History, with a decorated border and illuminated initial. Johann of Speyer (printer); Pliny the Elder (author). Public domain. Picture source

288. First page of the oldest known Popol Vuh manuscript, copied by Francisco Ximenez, Newberry Library

     Francisco Ximenez, Newberry Library. Public domain. Picture source

289. First page of the U.S. Air Force report on the 1976 Tehran UFO incident

     U.S. Air Force, Capt. Henry S. Shields. Public domain. Picture source

290. Floor mosaic of Hermes Trismegistus in Siena Cathedral, by Giovanni di Stefano, 1480s

     Giovanni di Stefano, Siena Cathedral. Public domain. Picture source

291. Formal portrait of physicist Samuel Goudsmit, about 1940. Public domain. Picture source

292. Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves testifying before a U.S. House subcommittee on 26 July 2023. U.S. House Committee on Oversight, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. Public domain. Picture source

293. Four map panels showing the North Sea basin shrinking from the land of Doggerland to the Dogger Bank island between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago. James Walker, Vincent Gaffney,Simon Fitch,Merle Muru, Andrew Fraser, Martin Bates and Richard Bates. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

294. Fragment of a clay tablet densely inscribed with cuneiform, part of the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish, British Museum K.3473. Zunkir. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

295. Fragment of a clay tablet inscribed in cuneiform from the Babylonian star compendium MUL.APIN, Louvre AO 7540. Zunkir. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

296. Fragment of a stele of Gudea, ruler of Lagash, found at Tello (ancient Girsu), Louvre. Public domain. Picture source

297. Fragment of Tortuguero Monument 6, the Maya inscription later linked to 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

298. Fragments of the Turin King List papyrus mounted in a long glass frame, covered in columns of hieratic writing, with a colour chart and scale bar. Museo Egizio, Turin. CC0. Picture source

299. Fragments of the Turin King List papyrus with hieratic writing, mounted under glass in the Museo Egizio, Turin. Museo Egizio. CC0. Picture source

300. Fragments of the Turin King List papyrus, mounted in a glass frame at the Museo Egizio in Turin, with columns of hieratic writing. Museo Egizio. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

301. Fragments of the Turin King List papyrus, Museo Egizio, Turin

     Museo Egizio, Turin. CC0. Picture source

302. Fresco of Ezekiel's wheel in the Church of St John the Baptist, Kratovo, North Macedonia

     Church of St John the Baptist, Kratovo. Public domain. Picture source

303. Gaston Maspero photographed by Emile Reutlinger. Public domain. Picture source

304. Gaza seen from the west in an early 20th century photograph. Public domain. Picture source

305. Gemini 4 astronauts Edward White and James McDivitt

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

306. Gemini 7 photographed from Gemini 6 during their rendezvous, December 1965

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

307. General Nathan F. Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Public domain. Picture source

308. General view of Jerusalem, photochrom print of about 1890 to 1900, Library of Congress. Public domain. Picture source

309. Georges de La Tour's candlelit painting of the suffering Job, seated and nearly naked, as his wife in a red dress leans over him holding a candle. Georges de La Tour. Public domain. Picture source

310. Gilded altarpiece panel of about 1410 showing mourners laying Adam's shrouded body in the ground while, above, Seth receives a branch from an angel at the gate of Paradise. Miguel Alcañiz (painting); photo by Francesco Bini. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

311. Greek black-figure amphora showing Sisyphus pushing his stone in the underworld while Persephone watches, about 530 BCE, Munich

     Swing Painter, Staatliche Antikensammlungen Munich. Public domain. Picture source

312. Green hills dotted with trees below long cliff-edged mountain ridges in the Piramagrun area of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Levi Clancy. CC0. Picture source

313. Grid of computed tomography slices of a human brain, running from the base of the skull to the top. Department of Radiology, Uppsala University Hospital (uploaded by Mikael Häggström). CC0. Picture source

314. Group photograph of the physicists at the 1927 Solvay Conference on quantum mechanics in Brussels, seated and standing in three rows. Benjamin Couprie. Public domain. Picture source

315. Hand-coloured Bengali woodcut of the Kurukshetra battle: two armies of warriors with spears and banners clash between temple-like buildings, with severed heads and scavenging animals below. Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy. CC0. Picture source

316. Harold Puthoff, from a CIA file photo. Public domain. Picture source

317. Head from a statue of Ahmose I, Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

318. Herm of Zeus of the Otricoli type, National Archaeological Museum. Joyofmuseums. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

319. Hesiod's Theogony, lines 566 to 586 (the making of Pandora), with notes in the margins, in a Greek manuscript of 1319, Biblioteca Marciana, Venice (Gr. 464)

     Picture: Hesiod; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

320. Hosea and Gomer in a medieval Bible Historiale manuscript, Museum Meermanno, The Hague. Public domain. Picture source

321. Ibrahim the Singer meets the jinn, a Persian painting from the Book of Wonders, Diez Album, Berlin

     Diez Album, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Public domain. Picture source

322. Icon of Saint Peter, 6th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai. Public domain. Picture source

323. Icon of Saint Philip the Deacon, Moscow, mid 16th century. Public domain. Picture source

324. Icon of the Apostle Jude Thaddeus at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai. Public domain. Picture source

325. Idris instructing his children, from a Persian Tales of the Prophets (Qisas al-anbiya), Chester Beatty Library

     Qisas al anbiya, Chester Beatty Library. Public domain. Picture source

326. Ignatius Donnelly photographed by Mathew Brady. Public domain. Picture source

327. Impression of an ancient Mesopotamian cylinder seal (VA 243) showing a starburst ringed by dots, a seated figure and standing figures. Public domain. Picture source

328. Indian miniature painting of the blue-skinned Balarama in jewelled dress under a pointed arch holding a staff, with a much smaller Revati in a second arch offering a white lotus. Unknown Nathadwara artist. Public domain. Picture source

329. Inscribed clay cone recording Hammurabi's building of the walls of Sippar, Louvre. Public domain. Picture source

330. Inscription honoring Suetonius from Hippo Regius (Annaba, Algeria). Public domain. Picture source

331. Iskandar (Alexander) builds a wall against Gog and Magog, page from a 16th century Persian Book of Divination (Falnama), Chester Beatty Library

     Falnama, Chester Beatty Library. Public domain. Picture source

332. J. Allen Hynek (left) with Jacques Vallee (right). Public domain. Picture source

333. John Duncan's painting Riders of the Sidhe, 1911

     John Duncan, 1911. Public domain. Picture source

334. Kalki, the avatar expected to end the Kali Yuga, in an Indian painting of about 1730, San Diego Museum of Art

     San Diego Museum of Art. Public domain. Picture source

335. King Hezekiah in a 17th century painting in the choir of Sankta Maria church, Ahus, Sweden. Public domain. Picture source

336. King Solomon as imagined by the painter Simeon Solomon, 1872 or 1874, National Gallery of Art. CC0. Picture source

337. King Solomon enthroned between his vizier Asaf (left) and the king of the jinn (right), 16th century Ottoman miniature

     16th century Ottoman miniature. Public domain. Picture source

338. King Tang of Shang as imagined by the Song dynasty painter Ma Lin. Public domain. Picture source

339. Kneeling statuette of Pepi I, about 2338 to 2298 BCE, Brooklyn Museum. Public domain. Picture source

340. Lamassu guardian figures at the entrance of the North West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. Public domain. Picture source

341. Late Roman contorniate medallion honoring Apollonius of Tyana. Public domain. Picture source

342. Later miniature depicting the execution of Mansur al-Hallaj. Public domain. Picture source

343. Leaf of an ancient Greek papyrus codex with part of the Book of Enoch, Chester Beatty Papyrus XII

     Chester Beatty Papyrus XII. Public domain. Picture source

344. Limestone relief of Akhenaten, probably from a parapet at Amarna, Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

345. Line copy of a Han dynasty stone relief showing Nuwa and Fuxi with entwined serpent tails

     Copy of a Han dynasty relief. Public domain. Picture source

346. Linear dunes in the Great Sand Sea of southwest Egypt, photographed from the International Space Station. Public domain. Picture source

347. Main entrance of The National Archives building at Kew, London. CC0. Picture source

348. Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, the Army intelligence commander who championed the remote viewing unit

     U.S. Army. Public domain. Picture source

349. Maj. Gen. John A. Samford in an official U.S. Air Force photo. Public domain. Picture source

350. Manu and the seven sages in a boat tied to Matsya, the fish form of Vishnu, Indian painting

     Unknown Indian painter. Public domain. Picture source

351. Marble bust from Capua said to show Hannibal, in a glass plate photograph by Fratelli Alinari. Public domain. Picture source

352. Marble bust of Vespasian made around 69 to 70 CE, Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro, Coimbra. Public domain (photo CC0). Picture source

353. Marble head of a philosopher at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, thought to be Plutarch. Public domain. Picture source

354. Marble portrait head of King Mithridates VI of Pontus wearing a lion-skin headdress as Heracles, Louvre Museum. Carole Raddato. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

355. Marble relief portrait of Maimonides by Brenda Putnam, 1950, in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber. Public domain. Picture source

356. Matthaeus Merian's 17th century engraving of Ezekiel's vision of the throne-chariot

     Matthaeus Merian. Public domain. Picture source

357. Medieval bronze door panels of the Basilica of San Zeno in Verona, including a relief of Moses and the bronze serpent raised on a pole. José Luiz. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

358. Medieval miniature from a French translation of Livy's Roman History: armoured soldiers with spears stand over a wounded crowned man and a heap of bloodied fallen men. Master of the Bible of Jean de Sy (illuminator); photo by Helvio ricina. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

359. Meeting of the Project Orbiter committee in Washington, D.C., 1955; Frederick C. Durant is among those shown. Public domain. Picture source

360. Members of NASA's UAP independent study team seated at a long table on a stage during their public meeting at NASA Headquarters on May 31, 2023, with an audience in the foreground. NASA/Joel Kowsky. Public domain. Picture source

361. Methuselah among the patriarchs following Christ out of limbo, painting by Bartolome Bermejo, about 1480

     Bartolome Bermejo. Public domain. Picture source

362. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco of the Fall and Expulsion, with Eve taking fruit from the serpent wrapped around the tree and the couple driven from the garden. Dennis Jarvis. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

363. Mick West speaking at the CSICon skeptics conference in 2016. Karl Withakay. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

364. Mid-20th-century photograph of the cliffs and caves at Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, with the Dead Sea in the distance. Eric Matson. Public domain. Picture source

365. Mineralogist Leonid Kulik, leader of the first Tunguska expeditions. Public domain. Picture source

366. Monumental portrait of King Jamshid (Yima) by Mihr Ali, Persia, 1803

     Mihr Ali, 1803. Public domain. Picture source

367. Mosaic of the archangel Uriel by James Powell and Sons, St John's Church, Warminster, England

     James Powell and Sons. Public domain. Picture source

368. NASA photo STS088-724-66 of the object nicknamed the Black Knight, most likely a lost thermal blanket

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

369. National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. Public domain. Picture source

370. Odin and the seeress of the Voluspa, illustration by Lorenz Frolich

     Lorenz Frolich. Public domain. Picture source

371. Official NASA portrait of astronaut Edgar Mitchell

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

372. Official NASA portrait of astronaut Gordon Cooper

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

373. Official portrait of Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks. Public domain. Picture source

374. Official portrait of Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder. Public domain. Picture source

375. Official portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, May 29, 1959. Public domain. Picture source

376. Official portrait of Representative Glenn Grothman, 117th Congress. Public domain. Picture source

377. Official portrait of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Public domain. Picture source

378. Official portrait of the STS-51-L Challenger crew, November 1985

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

379. Official Senate portrait of Senator Daniel Inouye, 2008. Public domain. Picture source

380. Oil painting of the giant Ymir lying on icy ground and drinking from the udder of the black cow Audhumla, with streaks of red fire across the sky and figures emerging from the rocks. Nicolai Abildgaard. Public domain. Picture source

381. Old Babylonian clay tablet inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform with a fragment of the Epic of Atrahasis, about 1646-1626 BCE, at the Morgan Library & Museum. Mike Peel. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

382. Old engraved portrait of the bearded patriarch Cainan in a round frame above a Latin inscription citing Luke 3:36, from the book Epitome historico-chronologica. Bartolomeo Gai. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

383. Old engraving of Abram asleep beside the divided sacrificial animals while birds swoop down, a smoking furnace burns and stars fill the sky, with a Latin caption citing Genesis 15. Unknown engraver (Figurae et imagines bibliorum, Rijksmuseum). CC0. Picture source

384. Old engraving of Adam's body being laid in a grave inside a large vaulted cave, watched by a crowd of mourners holding branches and vessels. Jan Sadeler I, after Maerten de Vos. CC0. Picture source

385. Old engraving of Noah's ark under construction: a huge timber hull on scaffolding, workers sawing and hauling below, and Noah studying a plan with his sons in the foreground. Unknown engraver (Rijksmuseum). CC0. Picture source

386. Old engraving of two of Moses' spies returning from Canaan carrying a huge bunch of grapes on a pole, with hills and other travellers behind. Unknown engraver (Theatrum Biblicum, Rijksmuseum). CC0. Picture source

387. Old stone buildings on a street in St Andrews, Scotland, with the ruined cathedral tower behind. Ddragovic. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

388. Onias III as imagined in a woodcut of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, Rijksmuseum. CC0. Picture source

389. Opening lines of Hesiod's Works and Days in a Byzantine manuscript, Houghton Library, Harvard. Public domain. Picture source

390. Opening page of a medieval Latin manuscript of Josephus, The Jewish War

     Cologne, Dombibliothek, Ms. 163. Public domain. Picture source

391. Opening page of an early 19th-century Rigveda manuscript in Devanagari script, on paper

     Picture: Unknown author; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

392. Origen teaching his students, engraving by Jan Luyken, about 1700. Public domain. Picture source

393. Page from Balami's 14th century Persian version of al-Tabari's History, Smithsonian. Public domain. Picture source

394. Page from the declassified MKUltra documents released by the CIA

     Central Intelligence Agency. Public domain. Picture source

395. Page from the Majestic 12 file released in the FBI Vault

     Federal Bureau of Investigation. Public domain. Picture source

396. Page of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica in a manuscript at the Laurentian Library, Florence. Public domain. Picture source

397. Page of Codex II from the Nag Hammadi library, with the end of the Secret Book of John and the start of the Gospel of Thomas

     Nag Hammadi Codex II, Coptic Museum. Public domain. Picture source

398. Page of Ephrem's Commentary on the Diatessaron, Syriac parchment from Egypt, late 5th or 6th century, Chester Beatty Library. Public domain. Picture source

399. Page of the Codex Mediceus in the Laurentian Library, Florence, with Tacitus' Annals 15.44. Public domain. Picture source

400. Painted ivory panel from a chest in Tutankhamun's tomb showing the king with queen Ankhesenamun, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Public domain. Picture source

401. Painting of the Nile landscape near Akhmim by Edward Lear. Public domain. Picture source

402. Panoramic view of the unfinished sandstone Bhojeshwar Temple at Bhojpur with its tall doorway, small domed pavilions at left and visitors in front. Suyash.dwivedi. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

403. Papyrus Harageh 1 (UC 32773), a late Middle Kingdom papyrus fragment found at Harageh with part of the Story of Sinuhe, Petrie Museum, London

     Picture: Ancient Egyptian Writer; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

404. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2099, a fragment of Book VIII of Herodotus's Histories, early 2nd century CE, found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt

     Picture: English: Unknown Español: Desconocido Français : inconnu; Public domain, PDM, PD-1923, via Wikimedia Commons

405. Papyrus with a greeting in the hand of Emperor Theodosius II, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. Public domain. Picture source

406. Papyrus-form columns inscribed for Amenhotep III and later kings at ancient Heliopolis, Cairo. Public domain. Picture source

407. Part of a basalt water basin from Assur showing the god Ea flanked by figures wearing fish cloaks, in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

408. Part of folio 30v of the Codex Regius of the Prose Edda (GKS 2367 4to), a 14th-century Icelandic manuscript

     Picture: Unknown author; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

409. Part of folio 41 recto of the Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to), the 13th-century Icelandic manuscript of the Eddic poems, showing the start of Atlamal

     Picture: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

410. Pencil sketch of Lincoln's coffin on a draped catafalque in the White House East Room, with mourners and soldiers standing around it. Alfred R. Waud. Public domain. Picture source

411. Photograph of CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb. Public domain. Picture source

412. Photograph of historian Adrienne Mayor standing at a microphone against a dark curtain. GRuban. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

413. Photographic portrait of Marmaduke Pickthall. Public domain. Picture source

414. Physicist Edward U. Condon, about 1945 to 1951. Public domain. Picture source

415. Physicist Edward U. Condon, who led the University of Colorado UFO study

     U.S. National Bureau of Standards. Public domain. Picture source

416. Physicist Enrico Fermi, whose lunchtime question gave the Fermi paradox its name

     U.S. Department of Energy. Public domain. Picture source

417. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Public domain. Picture source

418. Physicist Luis Alvarez with a magnetic monopole detector, April 1969. Public domain. Picture source

419. Physicist Luis Alvarez, one of the scientists on the 1953 Robertson Panel

     Donald Cooksey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Public domain. Picture source

420. Physicist Russell Targ, who ran the SRI remote viewing experiments with Harold Puthoff

     Patricia Targ. Public domain. Picture source

421. Physicist Russell Targ. Public domain. Picture source

422. Plan of the ruins of Sais drawn by Jean-Francois Champollion, 1828 to 1829. Public domain. Picture source

423. Portrait drawing of William Morfill by William Rothenstein. Public domain. Picture source

424. Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici from the workshop of Bronzino. Public domain. Picture source

425. Portrait of Isaac Casaubon by an unknown artist, National Portrait Gallery, London. Public domain. Picture source

426. Portrait of Isaac Newton by Godfrey Kneller, 1689. Public domain. Picture source

427. Portrait of Marsilio Ficino by a Tuscan painter, 1521 to 1552. Public domain. Picture source

428. Portrait of President Harry S. Truman, about 1947. Public domain. Picture source

429. Portrait of Sir Flinders Petrie, 1903. Public domain. Picture source

430. Portrait of the Edo period author Kyokutei Bakin. Public domain. Picture source

431. Portrait of the explorer James Bruce by Pompeo Batoni. Public domain. Picture source

432. Portrait of the Sanskrit scholar Julius Eggeling. Public domain. Picture source

433. Portrait of the scholar Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare. Public domain. Picture source

434. Portrait of the scholar James Darmesteter. Public domain. Picture source

435. Portrait of William Whiston after Sarah Hoadly. Public domain. Picture source

436. Portrait photograph of Egyptologist Vladimir Golenishchev. Public domain. Picture source

437. Portrait photograph of philosopher Nick Bostrom. Future of Humanity Institute. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

438. Pyramid Texts carved on a wall inside the pyramid of Teti at Saqqara

     Chipdawes. Public domain. Picture source

439. Qal'at al-Bahrain, the mound that held the ancient capital of Dilmun, Bahrain. CC0. Picture source

440. Qin Shi Huang as imagined in a 19th century album of historical portraits. Public domain. Picture source

441. Qing-dynasty colour woodblock print crowded with strange creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas: winged fish, many-headed beasts and odd animals among mountains, waves and pavilions, labelled in Chinese. Unknown Chinese printmaker, Qing dynasty. CC0. Picture source

442. Raphael's 1511-12 fresco in the Vatican showing Heliodorus being driven from the Jerusalem Temple by a heavenly rider. Richard Mortel (photo); Raphael (fresco). CC BY 2.0. Picture source

443. Raphael's painting of God borne through golden clouds by the winged creatures of Ezekiel's vision, a lion, an ox, an eagle and an angel. Raphael. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

444. Reconstruction drawing of the temple precinct of Babylon with the Esagila and the Etemenanki ziggurat. Public domain. Picture source

445. Relief fragment showing the god Atum with Hatshepsut, Metropolitan Museum of Art

     Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

446. Relief fragment showing the pharaoh Unas being nursed by a goddess, 5th Dynasty

     Egyptian relief, 5th Dynasty. Public domain. Picture source

447. Relief of King Ashurnasirpal II meeting a high official, from his palace at Nimrud. Public domain. Picture source

448. Relief of the gods Seth and Horus blessing Ramesses II, small temple at Abu Simbel. Public domain. Picture source

449. Relief of Thutmose III smiting enemies on the seventh pylon at Karnak. Public domain. Picture source

450. Remains of the settlement buildings at Qumran. Public domain. Picture source

451. Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630, Rijksmuseum. Public domain. Picture source

452. Renaissance portrait of Livy by Andrea Riccio. Public domain. Picture source

453. Rippled sand dunes of the Rub' al Khali desert in Oman. Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

454. Roger Ramey as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, about 1928. Public domain. Picture source

455. Roman marble bust of Herodotus, Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

456. Roman marble bust of Homer, a copy of a Hellenistic Greek original, British Museum. Public domain. Picture source

457. Roman mosaic from Pompeii, 1st century BCE, thought to show Plato's Academy, National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Public domain (photo CC0). Picture source

458. Rows of baked bricks from the Sumerian ziggurat at Eridu exposed on the desert mound, with flat plain stretching to the horizon. David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

459. Rubens' painting of Daniel praying in a stone den surrounded by lions and lionesses. Peter Paul Rubens. CC0. Picture source

460. Ruins of Amiternum near L'Aquila, Italy. Public domain. Picture source

461. Ruins of the citadel of Hattusa at Boghazkoy on an early 20th century postcard. Public domain. Picture source

462. Ruins of the fortress at Shisr, Oman, linked to the lost city of Ubar, in 2002. Public domain. Picture source

463. Ryan Graves, David Grusch and David Fravor seated at the witness table during a US House hearing on UAPs on 26 July 2023. U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Public domain. Picture source

464. Ryan Graves, David Grusch and David Fravor seated at the witness table during the House Oversight hearing on UAPs on July 26, 2023. U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability. Public domain. Picture source

465. Saint Gregory of Tours and Saint Salvius before King Chilperic I, miniature from the Grandes Chroniques de France. Public domain. Picture source

466. Saint Irenaeus in a stained glass window by Lucien Begule, 1901, Church of Saint Irenee, Lyon. Public domain. Picture source

467. Saint John on Patmos by Hieronymus Bosch, about 1489, Gemaeldegalerie Berlin. Public domain. Picture source

468. Samuel Butler by Charles Gogin, National Portrait Gallery, London. Public domain. Picture source

469. Sandstone statue of prince Khaemwaset, son of Ramesses II. Public domain. Picture source

470. Sasanian rock relief at Naqsh-e Rustam showing Ahura Mazda on horseback, right, handing the ring of kingship to the mounted King Ardashir I. A. Davey. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

471. Satellite view of the Americas at night, with city lights glowing across North America

     NASA Earth Observatory (Suomi NPP satellite data, 2012). Public domain. Picture source

472. Sea cliffs and rock stacks on Tory Island, County Donegal, seen from the headland of Dún Bhaloir under a grey sky. Andreas F. Borchert. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

473. Seal of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) of the U.S. Department of Defense

     U.S. Department of Defense. Public domain. Picture source

474. Silver coin of Mithridates VI of Pontus showing his portrait, 96 to 95 BCE, Harvard Art Museums. CC0. Picture source

475. Silver coin of Phaistos, Crete, about 300 to 270 BCE, showing the bronze giant Talos throwing a stone

     Coin of Phaistos, Cabinet des Medailles Paris. Public domain. Picture source

476. Silver denarius of 101 BCE showing Gaius Marius as a triumphing general, American Numismatic Society. Public domain. Picture source

477. Silver denarius of 44 BCE with a portrait of Julius Caesar, made in his lifetime, American Numismatic Society. CC0. Picture source

478. Silver tetradrachm of Seleucus IV Philopator struck at Ake (Acre), with his portrait, BnF. Public domain. Picture source

479. Sistrum inscribed with the names of King Teti, Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

480. Six-winged seraphim in the Petites Heures of Jean de Berry, a French book of hours of about 1375 to 1390

     Petites Heures of Jean de Berry, Bibliotheque nationale de France. Public domain. Picture source

481. Skeptic Toolbox leaders Barry Beyerstein, Wallace Sampson and Ray Hyman in 2003. Public domain. Picture source

482. Snorri Sturluson as imagined by Christian Krohg for an 1899 edition of Heimskringla. Public domain. Picture source

483. Snow-covered Mount Hermon seen from Mount Bental

     Almog. Public domain. Picture source

484. Snow-covered Mount Olympus seen from the west-northwest, Greece. Public domain. Picture source

485. Solon, the lawgiver of Athens, illustration by Walter Crane

     Walter Crane. Public domain. Picture source

486. Space Shuttle radar image of the desert around Shisr, Oman, used in the search for Ubar

     NASA/JPL. Public domain. Picture source

487. Spell 17 of the Book of the Dead in the Papyrus of Ani, a Theban scroll of about 1250 BCE, British Museum

     Picture: Unknown author; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

488. Statue group of Horus and Seth crowning Ramesses III, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. CC0. Picture source

489. Stela C from Tres Zapotes, bearing one of the earliest known Long Count dates, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

     Gary Todd. CC0. Picture source

490. Steven Soter and Dora Katsonopoulou at Early Helladic remains excavated at Helike, Greece. CC0. Picture source

491. Stone relief at Persepolis of a winged figure in a ring hovering above a band of carved ornament. Napishtim. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

492. Stone stela of the storm god Baal found at Ugarit, now in the Louvre. Public domain. Picture source

493. Stone steps and a wall with a red emblem leading up to the tiered roofs of the Temple of Yu the Great in Shaoxing, China. Gisling. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

494. Stone tablet with a Sumerian dedicatory inscription from the Ekur, the temple of Enlil at Nippur, Metropolitan Museum of Art

     Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Picture source

495. Stone wall foundations and a large stone jar among the excavated ruins of Ugarit at Ras Shamra, Syria. Loris Romito. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

496. Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, 2024. CC0. Picture source

497. Strabo as imagined in a 16th century engraving by Andre Thevet. Public domain. Picture source

498. Summit of Jebel Musa, the traditional Mount Sinai, photographed from Ras Safsafa in the 1860s, Rijksmuseum. CC0. Picture source

499. T. E. Lawrence and Leonard Woolley at the Carchemish excavations, 1913. Public domain. Picture source

500. Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Flood Tablet, a cuneiform clay tablet on display in the British Museum. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

501. Tell es Safi (Tel Zafit) in Israel, the site of the Philistine city of Gath. CC0. Picture source

502. Temple II at Tikal seen from the North Acropolis, Guatemala. CC0. Picture source

503. Temple ruins at Nippur, Iraq, the holy city of the god Enlil. Public domain. Picture source

504. Tertullian as imagined in an engraving by Andre Thevet, 1584. Public domain. Picture source

505. The 12th-century bas-relief of the Battle of Kurukshetra at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Michael Gunther. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

506. The 6th-century mosaic of Emperor Justinian and his court in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Carole Raddato. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

507. The Acropolis and the Parthenon in Athens. CC0. Picture source

508. The aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan sailing side by side off the southern California coast in November 2004. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Elizabeth Thompson. Public domain. Picture source

509. The ancient stelae field at Aksum, Ethiopia. Ludger Heide. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

510. The angel Metatron in a 14th century Islamic manuscript, the Daqa'iq al-Haqa'iq

     Nasir al Din Rammal, 14th century. Public domain. Picture source

511. The angels Harut and Marut hanging in a well in Babylon, from a 17th century Ottoman Falnama, Topkapi Palace Library

     Falnama, Topkapi Palace Library. Public domain. Picture source

512. The Apollo 10 prime crew, Eugene Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

513. The archaeological site of Isin, Iraq, in 2003, scarred by looters' pits. Public domain. Picture source

514. The archaeological site of Nineveh in modern Mosul, Iraq. CC0. Picture source

515. The archangel Raphael with Tobias, from the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, 1470 to 1475, National Gallery London

     Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. Public domain. Picture source

516. The Auspiya River in the northern Urals in early snow, with dark water between spruce and birch trees, photographed in 2015

     Futball80 (Wikimedia Commons), 7 October 2015. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

517. The Azadi Tower in Tehran. CC0. Picture source

518. The Aztec Sun Stone in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

     Photo by Gary Todd, CC0. CC0. Picture source

519. The birth of Mani in a Manichaean silk painting from southern China. Public domain. Picture source

520. The Boeing 727 once registered N467US, the hijacked Flight 305 jet, at Chicago O'Hare in 1979 in Piedmont Airlines colors

     RuthAS. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

521. The broad tank of Brahma Sarovar at Kurukshetra with a white railing in the foreground and a temple across the water. आशीष_भटनागर. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

522. The burial chamber of the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, its walls covered in columns of Pyramid Texts under a star-painted gabled ceiling. Vincent Brown. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

523. The Burney Relief or Queen of the Night, Old Babylonian clay plaque of about 1800 BCE often identified as Inanna (Ishtar), British Museum

     British Museum. CC0. Picture source

524. The carved limestone Vulture Stone pillar at Göbekli Tepe, decorated with birds and other animals in relief. Sue Fleckney. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

525. The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, 2007. Public domain. Picture source

526. The celestial chariot Pushpaka in an illustrated Ramayana page, San Diego Museum of Art

     San Diego Museum of Art. Public domain. Picture source

527. The Chapel of the Tablet at Aksum, Ethiopia, a small stone chapel with a green dome where the Ark of the Covenant is said to be kept. Sailko. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

528. The classical columned facade and entrance steps of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on a sunny day with visitors outside. Lewis Clarke. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

529. The cliffs of the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali, homeland of the Dogon people. Ferdinand Reus. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

530. The Colosseum and the Roman Forum, Rome. CC0. Picture source

531. The columned facade of the Zoroastrian fire temple in Yazd, Iran, with a winged Faravahar emblem above the entrance, reflected in a round pool. Spekim. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

532. The columned glass entrance of the SRI International headquarters building in Menlo Park, California. Coolcaesar. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

533. The columned south front of the British Museum in London, 2011. CC0. Picture source

534. The computer printout from the Big Ear radio telescope with the sequence 6EQUJ5 circled and 'Wow!' written in the margin. Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO). Public domain. Picture source

535. The concrete J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI headquarters, seen from Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Aude. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

536. The cover and two text pages of an official Project Blue Book information booklet dated 1 February 1966. Steve Jurvetson. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

537. The crenellated stone curtain wall of the Naryn-Kala citadel in Derbent stepping up a slope. Александр Байдуков. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

538. The Cyrus Cylinder, a clay cylinder inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform in the name of Cyrus the Great, British Museum. CC0. Picture source

539. The death of al-Wathiq in a Mughal painting of about 1594. Public domain. Picture source

540. The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, an octagonal shrine with a golden dome and tiled walls. Godot13. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

541. The domed Chapel of the Tablet beside the church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia. Sailko. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

542. The Dwarkadhish Temple at Dwarka, Gujarat, seen across the Gomti river from the Sudama Setu bridge. VasuVR. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

543. The eroded mud-brick mound of the ziggurat at Eridu rising from the desert in southern Iraq. David Stanley. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

544. The eroded mud-brick mound of the ziggurat at Uruk rising from flat desert ground. tobeytravels. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

545. The eroded mud-brick ziggurat mound at Uruk (Warka) in southern Iraq. tobeytravels. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

546. The excavated mud-brick ziggurat of the White Temple at Uruk under the open sky. tobeytravels. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

547. The exposed Golgotha rock seen through a glass window in the Chapel of Adam, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Fallaner. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

548. The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, painting by Gerard de Lairesse, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

     Gerard de Lairesse. Public domain. Picture source

549. The facade of the Library of Celsus at Ephesus. Public domain. Picture source

550. The first page of Francisco Ximénez's handwritten Popol Vuh manuscript, with two columns of faded K'iche' and Spanish text on aged paper. Francisco Ximénez. Public domain. Picture source

551. The first page of the 28 May 1959 resolution closing the criminal case, a typed Soviet document with an approval stamp area at the top

     Prosecutor-criminologist L. N. Ivanov, 28 May 1959 (case file vol. 1, page 384). Public domain (Russian official document, not an object of copyright under article 1259 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). Picture source

552. The Flammarion engraving: a traveller pushes his head through the starry sky to see the machinery beyond

     The Flammarion engraving, 1888. Public domain. Picture source

553. The flooded volcanic caldera of Thera seen from Fira, Santorini. Public domain. Picture source

554. The four crew members of Northwest Orient Flight 305 standing together at Reno airport after the hijacking

     Marilyn Newton, Nevada State Journal (November 26, 1971). Public domain. Picture source

555. The four-sided clay prism inscribed with the Sumerian King List, displayed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. M.atkinsonross. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

556. The giant 'Uj ibn 'Unuq, Og of Bashan in Islamic legend, carrying a mountain, from a Wonders of Creation manuscript, Walters Art Museum

     Walters Art Museum, manuscript W.659. Public domain. Picture source

557. The glass-fronted entrance of SRI International's headquarters building in Menlo Park, framed by trees. Coolcaesar at English Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

558. The gold-covered far-ultraviolet camera on a tripod on the lunar surface, with astronaut Charles Duke standing in the shadow of the Lunar Module behind it and the flag and lunar rover in the background. John W. Young / NASA. Public domain. Picture source

559. The Golden Age, painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, about 1530

     Lucas Cranach the Elder. Public domain. Picture source

560. The Golgotha chapel inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Public domain. Picture source

561. The Gothic-style building of Queen's College in Varanasi, India. Madho Prasad. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

562. The granite Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois: a tall obelisk above a terrace with bronze statue groups, under a winter sky. davidwilson1949. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

563. The great hypostyle hall at Karnak, Luxor. Marc Ryckaert. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

564. The Great Hypostyle Hall of the Karnak temple at ancient Thebes, Luxor. CC0. Picture source

565. The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a), a Hebrew scroll of about 125 BCE from Qumran Cave 1, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

     Picture: Photographs by Ardon Bar Hama, author of original document is unknown.; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

566. The Great Pyramid of Giza rising against a blue sky, with visitors at its base. Wknight94. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

567. The Great Pyramid of Giza seen from its southeast corner against a clear sky. MusikAnimal. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

568. The Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, photographed in 2002. CC0. Picture source

569. The great rock-cut relief at Mahabalipuram known as Arjuna's Penance or the Descent of the Ganges, crowded with carved gods, people and animals. Bernard Gagnon. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

570. The Great Sphinx of Giza in its carved rock enclosure. Vincent Brown. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

571. The great stele of Aksum that stood in Rome until its return in 2005, Aksum, Ethiopia. CC0. Picture source

572. The Hathor temple complex at Dendera, Egypt. Public domain. Picture source

573. The headless dark stone naophorous statue of the priest Udjahorresnet of Sais, holding a small shrine with a figure of Osiris and covered in hieroglyphs, in the Vatican Museums. Sailko. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

574. The Hermitage, formerly the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, photographed by Branson DeCou. Public domain. Picture source

575. The High and Low Lighthouses at Orford Ness as drawn on an 1875 nautical chart. Public domain. Picture source

576. The Holy Mosque in Mecca with the Kaaba, photographed in about 1889. Public domain. Picture source

577. The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, thousands of distant galaxies scattered across a black patch of sky. NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, P. Oesch, R. Bouwens, and the HUDF09 Team. Public domain. Picture source

578. The huge, gnarled trunk of the ancient Jomon Sugi cedar tree on Yakushima island, Japan. Raita Futo. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

579. The interior of an Attic red-figure kylix showing Hephaestus seated and handing a helmet to Thetis, who holds Achilles' shield and spear, in the Antikensammlung Berlin. Foundry Painter. Public domain. Picture source

580. The interior of the Dictaean (Psychro) Cave on Crete, with stalactites, stalagmites and lit walkways. Jerzy Strzelecki. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

581. The International UFO Museum and Research Center on North Main Street, Roswell, New Mexico. Public domain. Picture source

582. The Jabbok river flowing past green banks below the terraced hill of Tulul adh-Dhahab in spring. E. Rehfeld. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

583. The Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser III, whose inscription names Ahab the Israelite at the battle of Qarqar, British Museum. Public domain. Picture source

584. The Life of Romulus in a Greek manuscript of the Parallel Lives written in 1362 by the Byzantine scribe Manuel Tzycandyles, Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS. Canonici Greek 93)

     Picture: Plutarch; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

585. The long neoclassical limestone Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. APK. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

586. The low wooded hill of Craig Phadrig above Inverness seen across the water from North Kessock, with a boat on the firth. conner395. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

587. The massive unfinished stone Bhojeshwar Shiva temple at Bhojpur, India, with visitors on its platform and a small domed pavilion beside it. Bernard Gagnon. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

588. The medieval reading room of Duke Humfrey's Library in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with a painted ceiling and old bookcases. Diliff. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

589. The Merneptah Stele, the oldest record naming Israel, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Onceinawhile. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

590. The mound of Tall el-Hammam rising above the hazy Jordan Valley with green fields beyond. Deg777. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

591. The National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.. Public domain. Picture source

592. The Newberry Library in Chicago on a postcard of about 1910. Public domain. Picture source

593. The Nohoch Mul pyramid at Coba, Mexico. Public domain. Picture source

594. The Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Public domain. Picture source

595. The Northwest Orient Airlines ticket bought in the name Dan Cooper, photographed by the FBI

     Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Public domain. Picture source

596. The opening of Pausanias' Description of Greece in a manuscript at the Laurentian Library, Florence. Public domain. Picture source

597. The opening of the Apology in the Clarke Plato, a Greek manuscript copied in 895 CE, Bodleian Library, Oxford

     Picture: Plato; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

598. The opening of the Charmides in the Clarke Plato, a Greek manuscript copied in 895 CE, Bodleian Library, Oxford

     Picture: Plato; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

599. The opening of the Laws in Codex Parisinus graecus 1807, a 9th-century Greek manuscript in Paris

     Picture: Plato; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

600. The opening of the Republic in Codex Parisinus graecus 1807, a 9th-century Greek manuscript in Paris

     Picture: Plato; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

601. The opening of the Theaetetus in the Clarke Plato, a Greek manuscript copied in 895 CE, Bodleian Library, Oxford

     Picture: Plato; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

602. The opening page of the Critias in Codex Parisinus graecus 1807, a 9th-century Greek manuscript in Paris

     Picture: Plato; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

603. The opening page of the Peterborough Chronicle manuscript, written in Old English in dense brown ink with a large decorated initial. Monastic scribes of Peterborough Abbey; photo by Geogre. Public domain. Picture source

604. The opening page of the Timaeus in Codex Parisinus graecus 1807, a 9th-century Greek manuscript in Paris

     Picture: Plato; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

605. The ornate carved-stone facade of the Coptic Museum in Cairo seen across its garden courtyard with fountains. Radosław Botev. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

606. The Oseberg Viking ship with its curled prow on display in the Viking Ship Museum, Oslo. Larry Lamsa. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

607. The passage tomb at Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

608. The Plain of Rephaim seen from the Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, in an early 20th century photograph

     Matson Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain. Picture source

609. The prologue to Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) in Greek, in Codex Sinaiticus, 4th century CE

     Picture: Unknown author; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

610. The prophet Ezekiel as painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508 to 1512. Public domain. Picture source

611. The prophet Isaiah as painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Public domain. Picture source

612. The prophet Joel as painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Public domain. Picture source

613. The prophet Zechariah as painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Public domain. Picture source

614. The reconstructed mud-brick Mashki Gate and crenellated wall of ancient Nineveh, near Mosul, Iraq. Omar Siddeeq Yousif. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

615. The remains of the Ishtar Gate at Babylon, Iraq, photographed in 1932. Public domain. Picture source

616. The restored Great Ziggurat of Ur near Nasiriyah, Iraq, in 2007. Public domain. Picture source

617. The rough rock-cut entrance to the cave traditionally venerated as the tomb of Honi the Circle-Drawer at Hatzor HaGlilit in Galilee. Ovedc. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

618. The ruins of Babylon, Iraq, photographed in 1932. Public domain. Picture source

619. The Seal of Solomon as drawn by Eliphas Levi in Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, 1856

     Eliphas Levi. Public domain. Picture source

620. The second hypostyle hall of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos in a 19th century photograph. CC0. Picture source

621. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the Menologion of Basil II, Constantinople, about 1000, Vatican Library

     Menologion of Basil II, Vatican Library. Public domain. Picture source

622. The silver Gundestrup cauldron displayed against a black background, its outer panels embossed with the faces of bearded and long-haired gods. Knud Winckelmann. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

623. The site of Ashmunein (ancient Hermopolis) during the Italian excavations of 1909, Museo Egizio photo archive. CC0. Picture source

624. The start of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch in a 16th-century Ge'ez manuscript, British Library, London (Or. 485, folio 102r)

     Picture: Unknown author; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

625. The stele of the Code of Hammurabi, topped by a relief of the king before the god Shamash, Louvre. Public domain. Picture source

626. The Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara photographed by Felix Bonfils in the 19th century. CC0. Picture source

627. The stone northern city wall of Derbent running down from the Naryn-Kala citadel toward green hills. Александр Байдуков (Aleksandr Baidukov). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

628. The Sumerian flood story clay tablet CBS 10673, inscribed in cuneiform, at the Penn Museum. Onceinawhile. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

629. The Tachara palace of Darius at Persepolis, Iran. درفش کاویانی. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

630. The tall carved granite stelae of Aksum, Ethiopia, standing in the stelae field. Ludger Heide. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

631. The Tandragee Man, an ancient carved stone figure gripping one arm, displayed in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh. Andreas F. Borchert. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

632. The Taylor Prism, recording Sennacherib's third campaign, British Museum. Public domain. Picture source

633. The Tel Dan stele, a 9th century BCE Aramaic inscription with the earliest known mention of the House of David, Israel Museum. CC0. Picture source

634. The temple of Medinet Habu photographed by John Beasly Greene in the 1850s. Public domain. Picture source

635. The Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece. rene boulay. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

636. The Tethered Satellite System deploying from Columbia during STS-75, 1996

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

637. The Theodosian Walls of Constantinople, Istanbul. Public domain. Picture source

638. The throne room of the Bronze Age palace at Knossos on Crete, with a stone throne against a wall painted with griffins. Cayambe. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

639. The title page of a 16th-century Basel printing of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica in Latin. Apollonius of Rhodes. Public domain. Picture source

640. The title page of an 1805 Paris edition of the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus in Greek and French, translated by E. Clavier. Apollodorus; ed. E. Clavier. Public domain. Picture source

641. The title page of Conrad Lycosthenes' 1557 Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, with a woodcut panel of portents in the sky, monsters and disasters around an enthroned figure. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

642. The tower of Old Main at the University of Colorado Boulder silhouetted against a dramatic sunset sky. CU Boulder. CC0. Picture source

643. The town of Dwarka in Gujarat seen across calm water, with the spire of the Dwarkadhish temple rising above waterfront buildings. Sivaprasadsujatha. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

644. The traditional tomb of Rabbi Akiva in Tiberias. Public domain. Picture source

645. The tumbled stone rampart of the vitrified fort on the summit of Tap o' Noth, Aberdeenshire, with a wide view over the countryside below. Colin Park. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

646. The twin-towered Gothic west front of Westminster Abbey in London. Rob enwiki. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

647. The two leaves of the Birmingham Quran manuscript, written in early Hijazi script, University of Birmingham

     Picture: AnonymousUnknown author; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

648. The typed US Air Force memorandum titled 'Unexplained Lights' written by Lt Col Charles Halt about the Rendlesham Forest events. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt. Public domain. Picture source

649. The UARS satellite held by the shuttle arm during STS-48, September 1991

     NASA. Public domain. Picture source

650. The vast domed central nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, with arches, galleries and hanging lamps. Jorge Láscar. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

651. The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa, a clay tablet covered in cuneiform recording observations of the planet Venus. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

652. The weathered mud-brick ruins of the ziggurat of Kish at Tell al-Uhaymir, with restored brick courses at the base. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg). CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

653. The weighing of the heart before Osiris, from the Papyrus of Hunefer, 19th Dynasty (about 1300 BCE), British Museum

     Picture: Hunefer; Public domain, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

654. The Weld-Blundell Prism, a four-sided clay prism inscribed with the Sumerian King List, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. M.atkinsonross. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

655. The Weld-Blundell Prism, the best known copy of the Sumerian King List, Ashmolean Museum

     Weld Blundell Prism, photo with transcription by Stephen Langdon. Public domain. Picture source

656. The white dome of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum beside a stone wall and a black basalt wall under a cloudy sky. Bahnfrend. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

657. The white dome of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. deror_avi. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

658. The White Tower, the stone keep of the Tower of London, with its four corner turrets. Bernard Gagnon. CC BY-SA 3.0. Picture source

659. The Yellow River's south bank near Xunhua, with green fields and trees along the water below red-banded mountains. Dominique Roux. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

660. Thor wades through rivers while the other gods ride over the bridge Bifrost, illustration by Lorenz Frolich

     Lorenz Frolich. Public domain. Picture source

661. Three small clay fragments inscribed with part of the Old Babylonian Gilgamesh story, Isin-Larsa period, in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago (not the Yale or Pennsylvania tablets)

     Picture: Daderot; CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

662. Title page of the oldest known Popol Vuh manuscript, copied by Francisco Ximenez about 1701, Newberry Library. Public domain. Picture source

663. Tory Island off the coast of Donegal, at dusk. Public domain. Picture source

664. Tory Island seen as a low dark shape on a grey, misty sea off the Donegal coast. Towel401. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

665. Traditional portrait of the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian. Public domain. Picture source

666. Trees flattened by the Tunguska blast, photographed by Leonid Kulik's expedition, 1927

     Leonid Kulik expedition. Public domain. Picture source

667. Two palm leaves from a 17th-century Sanskrit manuscript of Mahabharata fragments, Bibliotheque nationale de France

     Picture: Unknown author; Public domain, PD-1923, PDM, via Wikimedia Commons

668. Two tall weathered rock pillars on the flat stony top of Mount Otorten, with low hills fading into the distance under a clear sky

     Oleg Chegodaev (Олег Чегодаев), via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Picture source

669. U.S. Air Force graph of UFO reports by month, showing the July 1952 peak

     U.S. Air Force. Public domain. Picture source

670. Uri Geller in a black shirt holding up a spoon in front of a wall covered with hundreds of bent metal spoons. TaylorHerring. CC BY 2.0. Picture source

671. Ushibori in Hitachi Province, from Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, about 1830. Public domain. Picture source

672. Utsuro-bune, the hollow ship said to have drifted ashore in 1803, from the Hyoryu-ki-shu (Archives of Castaways)

     Hyoryu ki shu, Edo period. Public domain. Picture source

673. Uzair asleep beside the ruined city of Jerusalem, Ottoman manuscript of about 1585 to 1590, Chester Beatty Library

     Chester Beatty Library. Public domain. Picture source

674. Uzzah struck dead after touching the Ark, fresco by Giulio Quaglio the Younger

     Giulio Quaglio the Younger. Public domain. Picture source

675. View from Mount Otorten in the northern Urals over forested valleys and bare hills, with a small lake below. ents. CC BY 3.0. Picture source

676. Visitors standing among the ruined stone walls of the ancient basilica at Emmaus Nicopolis. don Tommaso. CC BY-SA 2.0. Picture source

677. Vitrified stone wall at Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne, France

     jp.morteveille. Public domain. Picture source

678. Wall painting of the Ark of the Covenant in the temple of Dagon, Dura Europos synagogue, 3rd century CE

     Dura Europos synagogue painting, 3rd century CE. Public domain. Picture source

679. Washington National Airport in 1941, photographed by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. Public domain. Picture source

680. Western and central Crete photographed from the International Space Station. Public domain. Picture source

681. What remains of the foundations of the Etemenanki ziggurat in Babylon, now a wetland. CC0. Picture source

682. Wide view of the stone Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. APK. CC BY 4.0. Picture source

683. William Blake's 1807 lithograph of Enoch, his only known lithograph

     William Blake, 1807. Public domain. Picture source

684. William Holman Hunt's painting The Scapegoat, 1854 to 1856, the goat sent out 'for Azazel' in Leviticus 16

     William Holman Hunt. Public domain. Picture source

685. Winged guardian figure on a Neo-Assyrian seal, about 1000 to 612 BCE, the kind of being the Bible calls a cherub

     Jona Lendering. CC0. Picture source

686. Yigael Yadin as IDF Chief of Staff presenting a decoration to actor Edward G. Robinson. Public domain. Picture source

687. Ymir drinking from the cow Audhumla, painting by Nicolai Abildgaard, about 1790

     Nicolai Abildgaard. Public domain. Picture source

688. Yu the Great as painted by Ma Lin in the 13th century, National Palace Museum, Taipei

     Ma Lin, Song dynasty. Public domain. Picture source

689. Zhang Hua in an 1893 illustrated edition of a Three Kingdoms sequel. Public domain. Picture source