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A modern reenactment of Templar Knights in full battle armour.
A 9th century B.C. stone relief depicts King Shalmaneser III of Assyria shaking hands with a Babylonian. The handshake appears in art throughout the ancient world.
Captain James Cook, an explorer for the British Royal Navy, searched for Antarctica for three years but never found the continent. At one point, he was only 80 miles from the coast.
This 1889 engraving by William Allen Rogers for Harper’s Weekly magazine shows New York’s burgeoning night life along Grand Avenue, thanks to the illumination from electric arc lights.
The Hun’s ruthless pillaging and violence earned their leader Attila the reputation as a “Scourge of God.”
This engraving appears in Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World), an atlas of city maps that was published in six volumes between 1572 and 1617. It depicts the northeastern Italian city of Palmanova, founded in 1593 and built in a “star fort” configuration that studded thick walls with multiple bastions to improve the city’s defenses.
Saba The Sabean kingdom’s best-known monarch was the Queen of Sheba, who in biblical accounts rivalled King Solomon in her wealth and power. Sheba’s temples, including the Bar’an temple dedicated to the moon god Almaqah, were worshipped at for more than a thousand years and still stand today in Yemen.
Gandhara This ancient mountain kingdom in what is now northwest Pakistan and Afghanistan is best known today for its Greek-influenced Buddhist art—the result of Alexander the Great conquering the region in 327 B.C. A serene bodhisattva sculpture from Gandhara embodies the ancient mix of East and West.
This limestone head is of either Cleopatra I or her daughter, Cleopatra II, herself a powerful ruler.
A plaque dedicated to Artemisia shows her surrounded by twelve gods.