Queen mother of the west (Disambiguation)

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Did Roman Emperor Nero Murder His Mother?

Records of Nero's reign portray him as a monster who orchestrated his own mother's death. But was it even possible? Experts try to re-create the circumstances by which Nero was alleged to have sun his mother Agrippina the Younger's ship as...

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West Church, Umm el-Jimal (Jordan)

Ruins of the West Church found at the village of Umm el-Jimal in the north of Jordan, which was occupied between the 1st century CE (by the Kingdom of Nabatea) and the 9th century CE (during the Abbasid period). Inscriptions made by Tanukhid...

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Lothaire Bluteau as Charles of West Francia & Morgane Polanski as Gisela

Lothaire Bluteau as Charles of West Francia and Morgane Polanski as Gisela of France in the TV series Vikings. The Charles character is an amalgamation of the historical kings of West Francia, Charles the Bald, Charles the Simple and Charles...

Image by UNESCO / Rex Keating

Workers Dismantling Semna West temple

3500 years after its construction, the temple of the fortress of Semna West was dismantled in 1964 to be rebuilt in the gardens of the new Khartoum museum. Semna West, Sudan (1964)

Image by Simeon Netchev

Map of Spanish Main & West Indies c.1720 - Spain, France, England, and the Dutch in a Struggle Over Trade, Treasure, and Empire

This map captures the shifting tides of colonial power in the 1700s, focusing on the strategic coastlines of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Once dominated by Spain, this region—known as the Spanish Main and the West Indies—became...

Image by Trustees of the British Museum

Colossal Statue of a Winged Lion from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II

Colossal statue of a winged lion from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), modern-day Iraq. Neo-Assyrian Empire, c. 883-859 BCE. This is one of a pair of guardian figures that flanked one of the entrances...