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Wearing a cloak decorated with trefoil, this bust of the Priest King found at Mohenjo-Daro would have once been covered with a pink paste.

Built with stones salvaged from the Mausoleum, the Petronium was also decorated with reliefs and sculptures taken from the tomb, as shown in this 1844 engraving.

The grandeur of the Mausoleum resonated through the ages, as shown by this 1669 fresco by Nikolaus Schiel in the Monastery of Novacella, South Tyrol, Germany.

The grim six-month odyssey of the Polaris crew marooned on the ice floe is depicted in this 1876 illustration. Without the Inuit, who built shelters and hunted for food, they all would have died.

Hall's coffin is wrapped in a U.S. flag in this 1880 engraving of his funeral procession through the ice.

Wolfsbane is poisonous. It was applied to the tips of arrows in battle and was believed to repel both wolves and werewolves.

A wall fragment carved in low relief shows Ashurbanipal and the enthroned queen in an arbor celebrating the defeat of Elam.

Mycenaean warriors adorn a 12th-century B.C. wine krater from Mycenae.

A modern reenactment of Templar Knights in full battle armour.