Miscellaneous

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Sunset in Apollonia

De Bruijn's first trip

Bodrum, Representation of Saint Nicholas

Stemma of the main manuscripts of Herodotus' Histories

The Dutch Republic in 1672

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

Purple heron

The Hermannsdenkmal, a nineteenth-century German monument to commemorate the victory in the Teutoburg Forest

A modern Persian carpet showing Cyrus the Great, seen in Tehran.

Konrad Peutinger

Coloring picture with Sinterklaas

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Fort Bacone, Gate

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating Napoleon III

Baalbek, Temple of Bacchus, Inscription of sultan and emperor

Constantine, Pont de Sidi M'Cid

Antioch on the Peutinger Map

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the end of the Israeli Occupation

Sculpture of Nigeria's Nok culture, sixth century BCE

A modern monument indicating the eight roads beginning in Bavay. The statue represents Brunhilda.

The Third Council of Constantinople (680)

Isfahan, Chehel Sotun Palace, Colonnaded Terrace

Tibetan Air Burial

Dusky Pademelon

The Hartenstraat in Amsterdam. De Bruijn's house cannot be identified.

Berytus nutrix legum

Poststamp Cyrus Cylinder

A dromedary and its child, two hours old.

Gisbert Cuper

Map of Wadi Buzra

Theodor Mommsen

Copy of Titian's Death of Peter of Verona, from the studio of Loth

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the occupation of Beirut

Köln-Alteburg, Roadsign

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the liberation of Damascus

Children watching St Nicholas

The Council of Ephesus (431)

Manuscript of the "History of the Armenians" by Moses of Chorene

Ras al-Qalah, Incense Burner

Erasmus (Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands)

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Italian additions

Nicolaes Witsen

St Nicholas on an icon in the church of St Demetrius, Thessaloniki

Tongeren, Modern statue of Ambiorix

Hormuz

Beatus Rhenanus

Central-Asian statuette of a camel

Troy, One of Schliemann's pinnacles

Santa Claus, by F.O.C. Darley (1862)

Etching of "Zijdebalen" by Daniël Stoopendaal (1719)

Twelfth-century manuscript of a seventh-century Armenian translation of Euclid's Elements

Soumela, Wall paintings: the Council of Nicaea

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemoration the end of World War II

The First Council of Nicaea (325)

Along the road to Nemrud Daği

Seventeenth-century engraving, showing the story of the Bull of Zaandam

Cornelis de Bruijn, painting by Godfrey Kneller

Finding a human skull

Amsterdam, East India House

Copy of De Bruijn's portrait of Joan van Hoorn

Susa, Archaeologists' castle

The Council of Chalcedon (451)

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Fort Bacone