 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.
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 The First Council of Constantinople (381)
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 Köln-Alteburg, Roadsign
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 Dates
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 Coloring picture with Sinterklaas
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 Gisbert Cuper
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 Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the liberation of Damascus
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 Twelfth-century manuscript of a seventh-century Armenian translation of Euclid's Elements
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 De Bruijn's first trip
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 William III (by Peter Lely)
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 Sari, Arian sport school
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 Theodor Mommsen
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 Mellet, Aux trois arbres
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 Constantine, Pont de Sidi M'Cid
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 St Nicholas. Dam Square, Amsterdam.
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 Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemoration the end of World War II
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 Modern statue of Corbulo in Voorburg
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 Galle, Fort
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 Amsterdam, East India House
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 Awjila today
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 Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating Napoleon III
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 Beatus Rhenanus
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 Soumela, Wall paintings: St Nicholas striking his opponent
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 The First Council of Nicaea (325)
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 Sculpture of Nigeria's Nok culture, sixth century BCE
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 Antioch on the Peutinger Map
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 Finding a human skull
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 Poststamp Cyrus Cylinder
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 Nahr al-Kalb, Monument for the French army
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 Tepe Sialk, Modern art near the entrance of the excavation
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 Baalbek, Temple of Bacchus, Inscription of sultan and emperor
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 The Hermannsdenkmal, a nineteenth-century German monument to commemorate the victory in the Teutoburg Forest
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 The Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. De Bruijn lived in the second, third or fourth house from the left.
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 Gheriat esh-Shergia, Our hosts
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 Taq-e Bostan, Large cave: relief added by Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
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 Ras al-Qalah, Incense Burner
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 Gheriat esh-Shergia, Italian additions
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 Santa Claus, by F.O.C. Darley (1862)
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 Purple heron
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 Qasr Bshir, Beduin signs
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 Number of lines of the Periochae
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 Polybius' theory of anacyclosis
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 Map of Wadi Buzra
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 Coat of arms of Saint-Augustine (Florida)
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 Sahara: climate and art styles
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 The Council of Ephesus (431)
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 Sinterklaas arrives in Amsterdam; note that there is no Christian cross on his mitre, but the arms of Amsterdam
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 Soumela, Wall paintings: the Council of Nicaea
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 De Bruijn, Constantinople
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 Peter the Great (Painting by Louis Karavack, Hermitage)
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 Susa, Archaeologists' castle
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 Gheriat esh-Shergia, Fort Bacone, Gate
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 A modern monument indicating the eight roads beginning in Bavay. The statue represents Brunhilda.
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 Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap
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 Roadsign "Roman Road" (Herderen)
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 Manuscript of the "History of the Armenians" by Moses of Chorene
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 Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the end of the Israeli Occupation
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 Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the capture of Damascus
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 De Bruijn's summary of the Shahname
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 Yasuj, Statue of Ariobarzanes
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 Along the road to Nemrud Daği
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 Sophia Schliemann with Trojan jewelry
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 Nicolaes Witsen
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 The Hartenstraat in Amsterdam. De Bruijn's house cannot be identified.
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 Bernini's statue of Clement X
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 Copy of Titian's Death of Peter of Verona, from the studio of Loth
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 Tarsus, the "well of Saint Paul"
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 A modern Persian carpet showing Cyrus the Great, seen in Tehran.
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 Along the road to Nemrud Daği
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 De Bruijn, Smyrna
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 Ahuan, Karwansaray
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 Frontispiece of "Reizen over Moskovië" (second edition)
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 Children watching St Nicholas
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 The Third Council of Constantinople (680)
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 Erasmus (Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands)
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 A dromedary and its child, two hours old.
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 Armenian manuscript with Coptic Refutations of the Decisions of the Council of Chalcedon
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 Hecatompylos, Serail
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 De Bruijn, a lady from Isfahan (note the elegant shoes)
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 Tongeren, Modern statue of Ambiorix
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 Along the road to Nemrud Daği
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 Copy of De Bruijn's portrait of Joan van Hoorn
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 De Bruijn's account of the Achaemenid kings
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 Modern portrait of Zarathustra, inspired by Ahuramazda's dress on a relief of Taq-e Bostan.
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 A Samoyed
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 Nahr al-Kalb, 12a Pedestal of a statue (of a dog?)
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 The Second Council of Constantinople (553)
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 Berytus nutrix legum
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 A modern house in Harran
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 Dusky Pademelon
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 Stemma of the main manuscripts of Herodotus' Histories
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 Sunset in Apollonia
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 Hormuz
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 Tibetan Air Burial
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 Bodrum, Representation of Saint Nicholas
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 Cornelis de Bruijn, painting by Godfrey Kneller
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 Execution of the De Witt brethern
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 Wadi Awis, Bees' nest
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 A densimeter
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 De Bruijn, Dusky Pademelon
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 The Second Council of Nicaea (787)
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 Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the victory at Maysalum
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 The Fascist statues of the two brothers
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 Konrad Peutinger
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 Multan's former Hindu temple (right)
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 Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the occupation of Beirut
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 Central-Asian statuette of a camel
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 Faqra, Rocks
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 The Dutch Republic in 1672
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 Tus, Statue of Firdausi
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 Etching of "Zijdebalen" by Daniël Stoopendaal (1719)
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 Tibetan Air Burial
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 Zwarte Piet / Black Pete
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 Casper Reuvens in Voorburg
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 Troy, One of Schliemann's pinnacles
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 Sodoma's Wedding of Alexander
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 St Nicholas on an icon in the church of St Demetrius, Thessaloniki
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 Gheriat esh-Shergia, Fort Bacone
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 Isfahan, Chehel Sotun Palace, Colonnaded Terrace
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 The Council of Chalcedon (451)
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 Seventeenth-century engraving, showing the story of the Bull of Zaandam
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