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This historical map of the Genoa River was produced to support the understanding of military operations from 1792 to 1800, with particular focus on the events of Montenotte and Mondovì...

This statue of a military commander is from the Roman Period and is found in the Archaeological Museum in Sanliurfa, Turkey

French civilians and a British military policeman in La Brèche d'Hermanville behind Sword Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

The lower half of this quartzite statue has survived. It depicts the high-ranking military official Luna, who is kneeling and holding an offering table. From Memphis, Heliopolis, modern-day Egypt. New Kingdom...

This wall panel was part of large alabaster wall relief. The whole scene includes a central band of river, the Tigris or Euphrates, that separates two otherwise independent compositions in which the Assyrians...

Assyrian wall panel from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, Iraq, reused later in the South-West Palace, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, c. 728 BCE. The panel, one of a series...

This wall panel was part of a large alabaster wall relief. The Assyrian king in a chariot (who is noy shown) watches as prisoners are brought in, and heads and booty are piled-up in a palm grove. In Assyrian...

The Assyrian king in a chariot watches as prisoners are brought in and heads and booty are piled-up in a palm grove. Neo-Assyrian era, 640-620 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. From Nineveh, south-west palace...

No city on earth has preserved its past quite like Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by Roman emperors, and step into churches that...

The Secret History of the Mongols is a chronicle written in the 13th century CE (with some later additions) and is the most important and oldest medieval Mongolian text. The book covers the origins of the Mongol...