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Licensed images: credit required (70)
From Wikimedia Commons. Each link goes to the file’s page, which has the full licence and author details.
- A posture in ashtanga yoga (24) — Barry Silver from Tokyo · CC BY 2.0
- Abdus Salam 1987 — Molendijk, Bart / Anefo · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
- Aristoteles Louvre — Eric Gaba (User:Sting) · CC BY-SA 2.5
- Artificial neural network — en:User:Cburnett · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Athens - 500 BC - silver tetradrachm - head of Athena - owl - London BM 1920-0805-313 — ArchaiOptix · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bleached coral (24577819729) — Oregon State University · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Brain and Mental Health — Jerusalemmom · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bronze image of Shiva as Nataraja (the Lord of the Dance) (mid-9th century) (British Museum) — Colin McLaughlin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Buddhist monk meditation — ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ -… · CC BY 3.0
- Bust of Plato, Vatican Museum, Rome — Dudva · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Café de Flore, 172 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris 6e — Celette · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cause of Stress — Jack.dolph · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Clay tablet, late Uruk period, 3300-3100 BCE. Proto-cuneiform signs, food issue list " rations" written by combining a human head and a bowl. Purchased via Christie's in 1989, with contribution from the British Museum Friends — Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Climate Strike San Francisco (48785865462) — Fabrice Florin from Mill Valley, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Column of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza Colonna, Rome, Italy (9608156023) — l0da_ralta · CC BY 2.0
- Contactless Payment Card opened to show RF antenna — AmarinderBrar · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dakshineswar Kali Temple on the bank River Ganges — Provatkrmukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dead Sea Scroll 109, Qohelet or Ecclesiastes, from Qumran Cave 4. The Jordan Museum, Amman — Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Digital nomad telecommuting work on laptop computer — Flcikr user: perzon seo · CC BY 2.0
- Ecstasy of Saint Teresa September 2015-2a — Gian Lorenzo Bernini · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ellen Swallow Richards Vassar 1870 — Unknown author · CC BY-SA 1.0
- Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (Rome) — Merulana · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gletscherschmelze — L. Albrecht/Pro Natura Zentrum Aletsch · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Göbekli Tepe, Urfa — Teomancimit · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kabir Das — ShubhamSay · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kali Holloway and Kimberlé Crenshaw — Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kathaka samhita, Krishna Yajurveda, Sanskrit, Devanagari script — Ms Sarah Welch · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kölner Dom von Osten — Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Kritik der reinen vernunft erstausgabe — Fofo durch H.-P.Haack, Leipzig. H.-P.Haack at de.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Lomas Rishi Cave Entrance - Barabar Hills (1) — Sumitsurai · CC BY-SA 4.0
- London hammer artifact — S. J. Miba · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Machu Picchu, Peru — Pedro Szekely at https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosz/ · CC BY-SA 2.0
- ManuscriptAbbasid — Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Masonic emblem of the Carboneria — Dahn · CC BY 4.0
- Mayor Pyramid and circular enclosure. Caral, Peru — Jon Gudorf Photography · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Meera Temple, Chittorgarh Fort, Rajasthan — Unknown author · CC BY 2.0
- Mobile money ecosystem Africa — Le gracié · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mohenjo-daro — Saqib Qayyum · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Nicolas P. Rougier's rendering of the human brain — Nicolas Rougier · GPL
- Pashupati Seal from the Harappan Civilization — Aadrit28 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Patanjali Statue — User:Alokprasad · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Physical Bitcoin by Mike Cauldwell (Casascius) — Mike Cauldwell · Copyrighted free use
- Professor Dorothy Hodgkin — University of Bristol · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ramakrishna Mission museum, Belur Math, Howrah — Ravi Dwivedi · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Seneca. Double herm with portraits of Socrates and roman philosopher Seneca — Sergey Sosnovskiy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sophia (robot) — ITU Pictures · CC BY 2.0
- Square and Compasses — Own work · CC BY-SA 3.0
- SRF Headquarters at 3880 San Rafael Dr. — Jack B108 · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry — Aravind Sivaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sri Yantra — N.Manytchkine · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Statue Of 'Justice' Old Bailey — Lonpicman · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Statue of Lao Tzu in Quanzhou — Tom@HK · CC BY 2.0
- Temple of Confucius at Qvfu — Acstar · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Temple-of-Osiris Flower-of-Life 02 — Ray Flowers and released to the public to use on Wikipedia without worry of… · CC BY-SA 3.0
- The Circular Economy concept — Geissdoerfer, M., Pieroni, M.P., Pigosso, D.C. and Soufani, K. · CC BY 4.0
- The Great Library of Alexandria, O. Von Corven, 19th century — Igor Merit Santos · CC BY-SA 4.0
- The so-called Copper Dead Sea Scrolls at the Jordan Museum, from Qumran Cave 3, 1st century CE — Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- The so-called Sappho portrait, Pompeii (AD 45-79) — Unknown author · CC BY 4.0
- The Sumerian King List, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford — M.atkinsonross · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Tikal, Temple I and II (15772710379) — Arian Zwegers from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY 2.0
- Triskele pattern on orthostat C10 at Newgrange — O'Dea · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Turchia - Konya - Mausoleo di Mevlana- — Casalmaggiore Provincia · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Turkish whirling dervishes of Mevlevi Order, bowing in unison during the Sema ceremony — Quinn Dombrowski · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Vidyashankara Temple at Shringeri — Calvinkrishy · CC BY-SA 2.5
- Vulture Stone, Gobekli Tepe, Sanliurfa, South-east Anatolia, Turkey — Sue Fleckney · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Wall of the great enclosure (far), Great Zimbabwe — Jens Klinzing · CC BY 3.0
- What if I ask for help — Maryeoriginals · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Yamnaya Steppe Pastoralists — Map created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain. Koba-chan.… · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Helmed Hoplite Sparta — de:Benutzer:Ticinese · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Meister Eckhart Fragment 1003 cropped — Georg-August-Universität Göttingen · CC BY 3.0
Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons (79)
No credit is legally required for these, but they are listed so you can find the originals.
- 'John Locke' by Godfrey Kneller, 1697, Hermitage — Godfrey Kneller · Public domain
- 8hoursday banner 1856 — not known; copied from english Wikipedia; it is believed to be public domain. · Public domain
- Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati- 2014-06-04 16-25 — engraved by Johann Friedrich Rossmässler (ca. 1775 - 1858), after C. K.… · Public domain
- Alan Turing (1951) — Elliott & Fry · Public domain
- Albert Camus 1945 (cropped) — Studio Harcourt · Public domain
- Alchemist's Laboratory, Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, 1595 — Unknown author · Public domain
- Also sprach Zarathustra (1883) — Friedrich Nietzsche · Public domain
- Ankh — No machine-readable author provided. AmosWolfe assumed (based on copyright… · Public domain
- Aristotle Altemps Inv8575 — After Lysippos · Public domain
- Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979) — Smithsonian Institution from United States · No restrictions
- Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) - NARA - 542015 - Restoration — Rowland Scherman / Adam Cuerden · Public domain
- Commentary on The Analects of Confucius WDL11839 — He, Yan · Public domain
- Dresden codex, page 2 — circa 1200date QS:P,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 · Public domain
- Earth's greenhouse effect (US EPA, 2012) — US EPA · Public domain
- Emmy Noether (3x4 cropped) — Unknown author Publisher: Mathematical Association of America [3], Brooklyn… · Public domain
- Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis versibus adumbratum (Oxford 1715) frontispiece (cropped) — William Sonmans / Michael Burghers · Public domain
- Frans Hals - Portret van René Descartes — After Frans Hals · Public domain
- Gandhara Buddha (tnm) — World Imaging · Public domain
- Giotto - Legend of St Francis - -12- - Ecstasy of St Francis — Giotto · Public domain
- Hermann Minkowski Portrait — Hermann Minkowski · Public domain
- Hogarth Dashwood — William Hogarth · Public domain
- Immanuel Kant Tomb — J110 · Public domain
- Jakob Schlesinger - Hegel 1831 — Jakob Schlesinger · Public domain
- John Rawls (1971 photo portrait) — Published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Photograph taken… · Public domain
- Kabbalistic Tree of Life (Sephiroth) — AnonMoos · Public domain
- Karl Marx 001 restored — John Jabez Edwin Mayall · Public domain
- Kierkegaard 1902 by Luplau Janssen — Luplau Janssen · Public domain
- Leviathan - Hobbes' Leviathan (1651), title page - BL — Abraham Bosse · CC0
- MasonicEyeOfProvidence — Unknown author · Public domain
- Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (b. 1890) — Smithsonian Institution from United States · No restrictions
- Max Klein - Friedrich-Nietzsche-Statue — Max Klein (1847-1908) Photographer not credited · Public domain
- Nag Hammadi Codex II — Unknown author · Public domain
- NASA Finds Thickest Parts of Arctic Ice Cap Melting Faster (6941907057) — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA · Public domain
- Nettie Stevens — The Incubator (courtesy of Carnegie Institution of Washington) · Public domain
- Om symbol — The Unicode Consortium · Public domain
- Ouroboros — Ihcoyc at English Wikipedia · Public domain
- Patanjali Yoga Sutras manuscript — Patanjali (original author) · Public domain
- Phaistos Disc — Side A — Gleb Simonov · Public domain
- Photograph of the Lion Capital at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh by Madho Prasad, c.1905 — Madho Prasad, c.1905 . · Public domain
- Plato Symposium papyrus — Unknown author · Public domain
- Portrait of Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925), Physicist (2550982215) — Smithsonian Institution from United States · No restrictions
- Rediscovered circa 16th century Arthashastra manuscript in Grantha script from the Oriental Research Institute (ORI) which was found in 1905 03 — Unknown scribe · Public domain
- Rigaud Louis XIV 1701 — Hyacinthe Rigaud · Public domain
- Rosicrucian Rose — Rosicrucian Rose c.1710 (colored).gif: Original diagram author unknown… · Public domain
- Runic letters elder futhark — ClaesWallin · Public domain
- Sacsayhuamán walls — Esoltas · Public domain
- Sculpture of Chanakya with Chandragupta Maurya — Pur 0 0 · CC0
- Seal of Templars — Thomas Andrew Archer, Charles Lethbridge Kingsford · Public domain
- Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre in Beijing 1955 (cropped) — 刘东鳌(Liu Dong'ao) · Public domain
- Simone de Beauvoir 1955 — 刘东鳌(Liu Dong'ao) · Public domain
- Socrates Louvre — Copy of Lysippos (?) · Public domain
- Spinoza — anonymous · Public domain
- Sri-Aurobindos-Symbol — Sri Aurobindo This PNG graphic was created with GIMP. · Public domain
- Srinivasa Ramanujan - OPC - 1 — Unknown author · Public domain
- The Blue Marble — The photo was taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on their way to the Moon.… · Public domain
- Uttana Kurmasana from Sritattvanidhi — Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar III · Public domain
- Voynich Manuscript (32) — Unknown author · Public domain
- Voynich Manuscript (32) — Unknown author · Public domain
- William James b1842c — Notman Studios (photographer) · Public domain
- Wind turbines — London Rachel, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain
- Yale Skull and Bones Tomb — No machine-readable author provided. Ragesoss assumed (based on copyright… · Public domain
- Yin and Yang symbol — Klem · Public domain
- Zeno of Citium Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek IN606 — Unknown author · Public domain
- Zhuangzi-Butterfly-Dream — Ike no Taiga · Public domain
- Karl Popper — Franz Barta · No restrictions
- Kabir004 — Unknown author · Public domain
- The coronation of Shri Shivaji — Chitrashala Press · Public domain
- Paramahansa Yogananda Standard Pose — Unknown author · Public domain
- Meerabai (crop) — Raja Ravi Varma · Public domain
- Noam Chomsky (1977) — Hans Peters for Anefo · CC0
- Raja Ravi Varma - Sankaracharya - cropped2 — Raja Ravi Varma · Public domain
- Jalal al-Din Rumi, Showing His Love for His Young Disciple Hussam al-Din Chelebi (cropped) — Unknown author · Public domain
- Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 1 — Johann Gottlieb Becker, 1768 · Public domain
- Nietzsche187a — Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, c. 1875 · Public domain
- Marcus Aurelius Glyptothek Munich — Roman marble bust, Glyptothek Munich · Public domain
- Confucius Tang Dynasty — attributed to Wu Daozi, Tang dynasty · Public domain
- Alexander-lysippus1-1 — after Lysippos · Public domain
- Hannibal Barca bust from Capua photo — Fratelli Alinari · Public domain
- Mongol Empire at its extent — Tiashing595 · CC0
Some portraits on the site are crops of the files above (Sartre from the 1955 Beijing photograph; Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai and Confucius from their paintings).
Other historical and scientific images
- Alexander Mosaic — House of the Faun, Pompeii, c. 100 BCE · Public domain
- Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps — J. M. W. Turner, 1812 · Public domain
- Leonidas at Thermopylae — Jacques-Louis David, 1814 · Public domain
- Portrait of Genghis Khan — Yuan dynasty album portrait, National Palace Museum, Taipei · Public domain
- Self-portrait and Shrike on a Withered Branch — Miyamoto Musashi, 17th century · Public domain
- First image of a black hole (M87*) — Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration · CC BY 4.0
- Bullet Cluster — NASA / Chandra X-ray Center · Public domain
- Andromeda Galaxy halo and Supernova 1994D — NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope · NASA images public domain; ESA/Hubble CC BY 4.0
- Cosmic microwave background map — ESA and the Planck Collaboration · ESA
