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Map of the western Mediterranean at the time of the First Punic War in 264 BCE.

The states during the Western Zhou period (1046-771 BCE) in China.

Bronze axe head topped with a man ruling animals, found in Saqqiz, Luristan, from Iron Age II (c. 1100-900 BCE). National Museum of Iran, Tehran. cc. no. 1434, photo by Neda Tehrani (Baloot...

Luristan Bronze artefact from Iron Age II or III, c. 950-650 BCE. National Museum of Iran, Tehran. Acc. no. 3915, Photograph by Nima Fakourzadeh (Baloot Noghrei) In archaeology, the cast objects...

Painted brick from Baba Jan, Luristan, Iron Age III, c. 850 to 550 BCE. National Museum of Iran, inv. no. 6735 This terracotta tile with a painted wheel is one of the c. 200 mural bricks that once decorated...

A July 1942 photograph of a British Eighth Army Humber Mk II armoured car during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

This scene is part of a large alabaster bas-relief which shows a tributary procession from Western Assyria (probably in modern-day Syria or Turkey). Here, we can see a groom leading two horses. From Khorsabad...

The main portal on the western façade of Bourges Cathedral, France. The sculpture above the two doorways shows the Last Judgement and was made around 1240. The figures in the arches represent various angels...

Bronze figurine with Babylonian cuneiform inscription found in Luristan Province, c. 1000-900 BCE (Iron Age II), National Museum of Iran, Tehran, inv. no. 1408. Photo by Neda Tehrani...

A map showing the German advances through Belgium, the Netherlands, and France which isolated the British Expeditionary Force and necessitated the Dunkirk evacuation of May-June 1940. (United States Military Academy...