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A 1626 CE engraving by Friedrich van Hulsen showing the Golden Hind of Francis Drake capturing the Cacafuego treasure ship (real name: Nuestra Senora de la Concepćion) in March 1579 CE off the coast of Peru. The capture of the galleon was...

The Mechanical Turk, illustration in Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pamphlet On Mr. von Kempelen's Chess Player and its Replica, 1789. This drawing depicts how von Racknitz believed the so-called Mechanical Turk, a supposed chess-playing...

This photo, taken by Friedrich Zschäckel in April 1943, shows a Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank of the Waffen Panzer das Reich division, then led by Gruppenführer Walter Krüger (1890- 945), while on the Eastern Front during the Second World...

A c. 1700 portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), the German polymath. Painted by Johann Friedrich Wentzel (1670–1729).

Battle of Hemmingstedt (1500), wall painting by Max Friedrich Koch in the assembly hall of a public building (Kreishaus) of the former Süderdithmarschen District in Meldor, 1910.

Apollo with the Hours, oil on canvas by Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785–1847), c. 1822. Güstrow City Museum.

A medal portraying a German philosopher Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). Copper alloy with warm brown patina, created by Friedrich Hagenauer around 1543. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia circa 3600/3500 BCE. It is considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the...

The Treaty of Versailles, signed in June 1919, was an agreement between the victors of the First World War (1914-18) which redivided parts of Europe and imposed reparations, armament limitations, and total blame for the war on Germany, one...

The Behistun Inscription is a relief with accompanying text carved 330 feet (100 meters) up a cliff in Kermanshah Province, Western Iran. The work tells the story of the victory of the Persian king Darius I (the Great, r. 522-486 BCE) over...