Miscellaneous

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

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

Constantine, Pont de Sidi M'Cid

De Bruijn, Constantinople

Hormuz

The Council of Ephesus (431)

Execution of the De Witt brethern

A modern house in Harran

Isfahan, Chehel Sotun Palace, Colonnaded Terrace

Konrad Peutinger

Susa, Archaeologists' castle

Stemma of the main manuscripts of Herodotus' Histories

Multan's former Hindu temple (right)

The Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. De Bruijn lived in the second, third or fourth house from the left.

Coat of arms of Saint-Augustine (Florida)

St Nicholas. Dam Square, Amsterdam.

De Bruijn, Smyrna

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

The First Council of Nicaea (325)

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the liberation of Damascus

The Council of Chalcedon (451)

Soumela, Wall paintings: the Council of Nicaea

Modern portrait of Zarathustra, inspired by Ahuramazda's dress on a relief of Taq-e Bostan.

Beatus Rhenanus

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

Yasuj, Statue of Ariobarzanes

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

Zwarte Piet / Black Pete

Central-Asian statuette of a camel

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Italian additions

Peter the Great (Painting by Louis Karavack, Hermitage)

Ahuan, Karwansaray

Nahr al-Kalb, Monument for the French army

William III (by Peter Lely)

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the capture of Damascus

Tibetan Air Burial

Mellet, Aux trois arbres

Sophia Schliemann with Trojan jewelry

Casper Reuvens in Voorburg

The First Council of Constantinople (381)

Dates

Tepe Sialk, Modern art near the entrance of the excavation

Taq-e Bostan, Large cave: relief added by Fath-Ali Shah Qajar

Poststamp Cyrus Cylinder

De Bruijn's account of the Achaemenid kings

De Bruijn's first trip

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the victory at Maysalum

A Samoyed

Bernini's statue of Clement X

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

Modern statue of Corbulo in Voorburg

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

The Second Council of Nicaea (787)

Along the road to Nemrud Daği

Tarsus, the "well of Saint Paul"

De Bruijn's summary of the Shahname

Awjila today

Purple heron

Sunset in Apollonia

Polybius' theory of anacyclosis

Sodoma's Wedding of Alexander

Frontispiece of "Reizen over Moskovië" (second edition)

Children watching St Nicholas

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

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Sari, Arian sport school

Number of lines of the Periochae

Cornelis de Bruijn, painting by Godfrey Kneller

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

Antioch on the Peutinger Map

Tibetan Air Burial

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

The Dutch Republic in 1672

Nahr al-Kalb, 12a Pedestal of a statue (of a dog?)

Qasr Bshir, Beduin signs

Simonides' epitaph has inspired many later tombstones. This one, from Tobruk, says that the Czechoslovakian soldiers fought and died according to the laws of their fatherland.

Coloring picture with Sinterklaas

Sahara: climate and art styles

Hecatompylos, Serail

Dusky Pademelon

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

Etching of "Zijdebalen" by Daniël Stoopendaal (1719)

Nicolaes Witsen

Troy, One of Schliemann's pinnacles

Copy of De Bruijn's portrait of Joan van Hoorn

Berytus nutrix legum

Faqra, Rocks

The Fascist statues of the two brothers

Gisbert Cuper

Tongeren, Modern statue of Ambiorix

Sculpture of Nigeria's Nok culture, sixth century BCE

Bodrum, Representation of Saint Nicholas

Köln-Alteburg, Roadsign

Baalbek, Temple of Bacchus, Inscription of sultan and emperor

Erasmus (Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands)

A dromedary and its child, two hours old.

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Our hosts

De Bruijn, Dusky Pademelon

Finding a human skull

The Third Council of Constantinople (680)

Along the road to Nemrud Daği

Amsterdam, East India House

Theodor Mommsen

Soumela, Wall paintings: St Nicholas striking his opponent

Roadsign "Roman Road" (Herderen)

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating Napoleon III

The Second Council of Constantinople (553)

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Fort Bacone

A densimeter

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Fort Bacone, Gate

Map of Wadi Buzra

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the occupation of Beirut

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

Ras al-Qalah, Incense Burner

Sinterklaas arrives in Amsterdam; note that there is no Christian cross on his mitre, but the arms of Amsterdam

Wadi Awis, Bees' nest

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

Galle, Fort

Along the road to Nemrud Daği

De Bruijn, a lady from Isfahan (note the elegant shoes)

Armenian manuscript with Coptic Refutations of the Decisions of the Council of Chalcedon