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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)

Launching ramp for ships at the old Punic port. The Carthaginians developed high skills in the building of ships and used this to dominate the seas for centuries. According to Roman historians the shipyards of the military harbour at Carthage...

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, 18th Dynasty, circa 1380 BCE...

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, court XIX, panels 10-12. (The British...

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 literature, beheaded bodies refer...

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, shows 2 disconnected scenes...

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 attack on a small island and...

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 people, the rise to power...

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 have hardly changed since popes celebrated...