Room of the manuscripts and incunabula inside the library of the University of Salamanca, Spain, 16th-18th century.
The library of Drottningholm Castle, begun in 1662, by architects Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and Nicodemus Tessin the Younger . Sweden.
Long table, a drop chandelier and shelves full of books, library of Festetics Palace, Keszthely, Hungary, 18th-19th century.
Drottningholm Royal Palace , by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder , overlooking Lake Malaren near Stockholm, Sweden.
Statue of the goddess Kannon, 25 metres tall, reinforced concrete, Ofuna Kannon Buddhist Temple, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Ruins of the Royal Palace, 2400 bC, Ebla , Tell Mardikh, Syria. Ebla civilisation, 3rd millennium bC.
Boat shaped grave, Lindholn Hoje Viking burial site, Aalborg, Denmark. Viking civilisation, 5th-9th century AD.
The columns of the Temple of Jupiter-Baal at the archaeological site in Baalbek or Heliopolis , Lebanon. Roman civilisation, 1st-3rd century.
Engraving depicting a ship, stone from the church of Saint Georges, Skibsrids, Denmark. Viking civilisation, 14th century.
Boat shaped grave, Lindholn Hoje Viking burial site, Aalborg, Denmark. Viking civilisation, 5th-9th century AD.
Devotees flagellating themselves at the annual Ashura festival, which celebrates the death of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, Imam al-Husayn...
Wood and sack laden horse-drawn carts on a road between the plateau mountains, with layers of pink and grey sandstone in the background, near Lhasa,...
