Visigothic Work and Play This page comes from one of the very few manuscripts from late antiquity to have survived, a copy of the first five books of the Old Testament — the Pentateuch — made around 600, perhaps in Visigothic Spain or North Africa. The top shows biblical scenes, while the bottom shows people engaged in everyday activities — building a wall, drawing water from a well, and trading punches.
(Illuminated page from the Ashburnham Pentateuch/Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France/De Agostini/Getty Images)