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Depiction of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, being led out of her cell to the guillotine on 17 July 1793. Standing at the far left is the painter Jean-Jacques Hauer who has just finished...

Artist's impression of Cleopatra VII, as depicted in the video game Assassin's Creed: Origins by Ubisoft.

A 3D render of what Aspasia of Miletus, consort to Pericles, may have looked like. This is how Aspasia is depicted in the video game Assassin's Creed Odyssey by Ubisoft.

An artist's impression of a chariot race in an ancient hippodrome. (From the computer game Assassin's Creed Origins)

Charlotte Corday, the future assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, in her hometown of Caen, Normandy. Oil on canvas by Tony Robert-Fleury, c. 20th century. Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne.

Portrait of American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, c. 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Artist's impression of Kallipateira, also known as Pherenike (l. c. 388 BCE), the female Olympic trainer from Rhodes, who risked the death penalty and disguised herself as a man to train her son to win. Screenshot from the video...

Portrait of American actor, and future assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth around the peak of his acting career, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks, c. 1862. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian...

A history documentary on what it was like to grow up Viking. In this history documentary we explore the world of the ancient Viking Age from the perspective of a child. This is a topic that all too often gets overlooked...