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Black Elk (also known as Nicholas Black Elk, l. 1863-1950) photographed here with his daughter, Lucy Black Elk, and wife Anna Brings White, in their home in Manderson, South Dakota, c. 1910. Denver Public Library Special...

Scythian women garnered leadership roles and a raised level of status in their day, which is perhaps without parallel until recent times. While many female figures rose to pivotal roles in history, their rise was not a reflection...

It was all very well pocketing other people’s valuables and roistering at rum parties, but life on a pirate ship involved a surprising amount of hard work. Pirates were first and foremost sailors and in the Golden Age...

Scythian warfare used state-of-the-art recurve bows and hit-and-run tactics against set infantry formations. Working from nimble horses, Scythian warriors could unleash a cloud of lethal arrows. Known, too, for their innovative...

The ship "El Galeon", a replica of a 17th century Spanish galleon, returned to Sète, France on Monday, April 15, 2019.

Dig in to the history of the Roman Empire’s staged gladiatorial naval battles and how they flooded the Colosseum to reenact famous battles. — Starting in 80 CE, residents of Rome and...

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A still from the award-winning documentary film made by Thor Herydahl (1914-2002) of his 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition when he and five others crossed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft.

A detail of a chart showing lines of magnetic compass variation made in 1702 by the English scientist and cartographer Edmond Halley (1656-1742). Halley hoped the chart would aid navigation but the variations in magnetism...

The Zeppelin airship USS Los Angeles tethered to USS Patoka off the coast of Panama, 1931. US Naval History and Heritage Command.