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A map illustrating possible sea routes used for political and cultural embassies from ancient Japan to Tang Dynasty China.

A map illustrating the current archeological evidence for the spread of the Scythians in the northern Black Sea region. It shows the distribution of the most notable ‘kurgans’ and monumental burial...

Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea, oil on canvas by Frederic Leighton, 1871. Collection Pérez Simón, Mexico

This bronze helmet has a crest with detachable horns shaped like horse-headed sea-monsters. The origin is unclear, it is perhaps a Messapian helmet from southern Italy. Circa 325-275 BCE. Castellani Collection, Bronze 2824...

A photograph of the RMS Lusitania at sea, the liner which was sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German U-boat torpedo on 7 May 1915 during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing U.S. troops (7th Corps) breaching the sea wall at Utah Beach during the D-Day Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

Modern 3D representation of what an ancient sea battle between Romans and pirates may have looked like.

A view of the RMS Empress of Ireland at sea which sank after a collision in May 1914. (Library and Archives Canada, PA-116389)

A miniature of Henry I of England (r. 1100 - 1135 CE) caught in a storm at sea. Made c. 1138 - 1140 CE. MS 157, fol 383r. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

A 1902 oil on canvas, A Walk by the Sea (aka Bathers), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in the Marquesas near the artist's hut. A work that shows Gauguin's slightly different...