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French soldiers inspect goods in Leipzig in 1806, near the start of Napoleon's Continental System. By Gottfried Heinrich Geißler, 1824.

An August 1933 photograph showing Heinrich Himmler (centre), head of the SS, and Ernst Röhm (right), leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA), rival paramiliatray groups of the German Nazi party. (German Federal Archives)

Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). By Johann Heinrich Ramberg, c. 19th century. Cornell University.

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, in the 1790s, portrait by Johann Heinrich Schröder c. 1790-95. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum.

Meeting of European rulers at the Pillnitz Conference, famous for the Declaration of Pillnitz, which was issued on 27 August 1791 and threatened Revolutionary France with invasion. Depicted in the center are Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor...

Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), German Lutheran reformer, engraving by Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Göbekli Tepe is the world's oldest example of monumental architecture; a 'temple' built at the end of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago. It was discovered in 1995 CE when, just a short distance from the city of Şanliurfa in Southeast Turkey...

In this interview, World History Encyclopedia talks to author and scholar Gordon Campbell all about his new book Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth published by Oxford University Press. Kelly (WHE): Thanks for joining me today...

The royal grave circle within the walls of Mycenae (1600 BCE). It was in the shaft graves here that Heinrich Schliemann discovered in 1876 CE the famous gold death mask attributed (incorrectly) to King Agamemnon.

Excavations at Hissarlik, watercolour by William Simpson, 1877. Hissarlik is the Turkish name of the site which is now identified as Troy. This painting shows the early excavations by Heinrich Schliemann.