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17th-Century Wheellock Carbine
A French 17th-century wheellock carbine. This type of weapon was typically used by cavalrymen, for example, during the English Civil Wars. (1642-51). This example is particularly ornate since it was possibly made for Louis XIII of France...

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19th-Century Coach Caught in Snow
A picture of a 19th-century coach caught in the snow. From a tin produced by Excelvit. (Private Collection)

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Lydian Relief: 5th Century BCE
This relief of a male holding a bird is from the 5th century BCE, found in modern day western Turkey near the ancient city of Thyatira. Thyatira was named such by Seleucos I Nicator around 290 BCE but prior to that it was an important city...

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Family Tree of the Royal Dynasty of Macedon in the 4th Century BCE
Family tree of the Royal Dynasty of Macedon in the 4th Century BCE. From Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great. Grant (2019) p76. Used with permission from Pen & Sword Books.

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Monte Cassino in the 15th Century
Illustration of Monte Cassino in the 15th-century Nuremberg Chronicle. Published in Nuremberg, Germany, 1493.

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20th-Century Sepoy
An early-20th-century painting by Major A.C. Lovett of a sepoy in the British Indian Army. (From The Armies of India, 1911)

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The Roman Empire and the Crisis of the Third Century, c. 270 CE - Pretenders, Breakaways, Plague, and the Fight for Unity
This map illustrates the fractured state of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the assassination of Emperor Severus Alexander (reign 222–235 CE) in 235 CE, marking the beginning of the period known as the Crisis of the Third Century. During...

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Central Europe 5th century CE
Map showing central Europe in the 5th century CE.

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Knights in Armour, 15th century CE
Knights in armour typical of the 15th century CE. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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Roman Forum in the 5th Century BCE
A painting of the Roman Forum as it probably would have appeared in the 5th Century BCE. By Vilius Petrauskas.
Courtesy of Ancient History Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.