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Queen Zenobia's Last Look Upon Palmyra, painting by Herbert Gustave Schmalz, 1888. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

The Ambroix Bridge at Ambrussum (modern-day Lunel, France) is an impressive work of engineering, which allowed the Via Domitia to cross the Vidourle River. It is thought to have had 11 arches and to have been over 175 m (574 ft...

Detail of La Péri by Gustave Moreau, 1878 CE Louvre, Paris

Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Petersburg, who held off overwhelming Union troops, buying time for Robert E. Lee. Retouched version of a photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1860...

The warrior queen Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire ruled her kingdom for three years until the Roman Emperor Aurelian stopped her in her tracks. The Palmyrene Empire was an empire that broke away from...