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Ancient East Asia was dominated by the three states known today as China, Japan, and Korea. These kingdoms traded raw materials and high-quality manufactured goods, exchanged cultural ideas and practices, and fought...

The 'horse-rider theory' is a controversial proposal that Japan was conquered around the 4th or 5th century CE by a culture from northern Asia to whom the horse was especially important. Although archaeological...

The Saratoga Campaign (20 June to 17 October 1777) was one of the most important military campaigns of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), in which a British army under General John Burgoyne invaded the Hudson River Valley...

Oheka Castle, built by the industrialist Otto Herman Kahn (l. 1867-1934), is one of the best-known luxury hotels of Long Island, NY, USA today. In its time as a private residence, it was the site of the kind of lavish parties which...

Scene from the Temple of Hathor (Abu Simbel, Egypt), built during the reign of Ramesses II, c. 1264-1224 BCE. Set and Horus blessing Ramesses II.

Set defeated by Horus as depicted in the Ptolemaic Period Temple of Horus at Edfu.

A scene depicting Horus' victory over Set from the Temple of Horus at Edfu, built in the Ptolemaic Period.

Set depicted at the Temple of Horus at Edfu. Ptolemaic Period.

Statue of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) at the now ruined Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, which he founded in 888. Designed in 1984 by Andrew DuMont for a school, it was relocated to the abbey gardens in 2004.

This is a photo of a cairn (ahu) of the Kukii Heiau, an Ancient Hawaiian temple. The photo displays a view of the foundations of the cairn, which was built in the 15th century CE and served as a spiritual altar.