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Roman fresco depicting a nereid reclining on a sea-panther. From Villa Arianna at Stabiae. Naples National Archaeological Museum. 1st century CE.

A fragment of a gilded silver wine jug from southern Spain (10.5 cm in height; ca. 1st cent. BCE; APM inv. no. 15.375). The image is “rolled” out to compensate for the curvature of the vase neck. The scene illustrates a Nereid riding on the...

A colourised version of a 1940 photograph of the German battleship Bismarck at sea. The ship was sunk in action in May 1941 in the Atlantic. (German Federal Archives)

A 1907 CE Bible card depicting Moses and the parting of the Red Sea.

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 sites of the riding nomads of the Scythian...

Richelieu on the Sea Wall of La Rochelle, oil on canvas by Henri-Paul Motte, 1881. Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle.

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)

View of the eastern Black Sea coast in Georgia from the Petra Justininia fortress looking northwards towards Phasis (modern-day Poti).