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George Washington and Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78. Reproduction of a painting by John Ward Dunsmore, 1907. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Baron Friederich von Steuben drills Continental soldiers at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778. By Edwin Austin Abbey, sometime before 1911.

A modern replica of the log huts that the Continental soldiers at Valley Forge lived in; most huts housed twelve soldiers at a time. Photo by Wikipedia user Dr. Blazer, May 2018.

In which John Green teaches you about the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the largest of the ancient civilizations. John teaches you the who, how, when, where and why of the Indus Valley Civilization...

Architrave of seven kings laying siege to Kushinagara, photograph by Biswarup Ganguly, 2013. Located in Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, India, at the Sanchi Stupa Buddhist complex, this architrave depicts seven kings...

The landscape of Boeotia, Greece during the spring from the monastery of Hosios Loukas near the town of Distomo.

The rock drawings of Valcamonica are prehistoric petroglyphs carved in the glacier-polished, grey-purple Permian sandstone of the Camonica valley that extends for 90 km in the Italian provinces of Brescia and Bergamo...

From Kings Bay Kull Compagni's mining operations on Svalbard. Photo: Sigvald Moa. From the archive of Kings Bay Kull Compagni AS (PA-1632, series D, pcs. 1, 2_8).

The Sumerian King List (abbreviated as SKL and also known as Chronicle of the One Monarchy) is an ancient Sumerian document whose earliest version is dated to Mesopotamia's Ur III period (circa...

Civilization (from the Latin civis=citizen and civitas=city) is a term applied to any society which has developed a writing system, government, production of surplus food, division of labor, and urbanization...