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Port scene. Roman Fresco from Stabiae. Perhaps the harbour of Puteoli (ancient Pozzuoli). National Archaeological Museum, Naples

A 19th-century painting by an unknown artist of Portuguese Macao, a colony of the Portuguese Empire from c. 1557 to 1999.

An early 17th-century illustration of Kollam (Quilon) in southern India which became a colony of the Portuguese empire in 1505. Part of the Portuguese Estado da India, a fort was built at Kollam in 1515.

An 1876 oil on canvas, Flood at Port-Marly, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. The artist produced a series of six canvases capturing the flooding of the Seine at Port-Marly, a catastrophe that occurred...

An illustration representing the port of the Sumerian city of Eridu, founded c. 5000 BCE in modern-day Iraq.

An illustration showing the port of Calicut on the southwest coast of India in 1572. Calicut was a major trade hub for the Eastern spice trade. From Georg Braun and Franz Hogenbergs atlas Civitates orbis terrarum.

A photograph of First World War (1914-18) German dreadnought warships in port. Unknown date or location. (Imperial War Museums)

An 18th-century painting of the Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs in France.

A recreation of a port in the Roman Empire. Courtesy of Ancient History Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.

A recreation of the port of Amastris in the Roman period. Amasra Museum, Turkey.