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Lyre Player and Bird Fresco
A fresco from the throne room of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, often referred to as the 'Orpheus Fresco' depicts a seated lyre player and a bird in flight. It dates to c. 1300 BCE and this watercolour reconstruction was completed by Piet...
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King Philip's War: The Most Important American War You've Never Heard Of
A generation after the first Thanksgiving, the sachem of the Wampanoag led a coalition of Native American tribes to battle against the ever-encroaching European colonists of New England.
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Mausoleum, Germa Libya
Mausolem near Germa Libya. Located on 26th parallel, it is the most southerly monument of the Roman Empire. It is a stone cube standing about 3m high and features engaged pilasters and four Doric capitals. (Reference; pp 135 and photo...
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Anne Bonny
A 1725 Dutch print showing the Irish-born pirate Anne Bonny, active in the Caribbean in 1719-20. (Appeared in an early edition of 'A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates' by Daniel Defoe/Charles Johnson...
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Blackbeard or Edward Teach
A colourised engraving of the pirate Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718). First appeared in an 18th-century edition of a 'General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates' by Charles Johnson (likely a pseudonym...
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Blackbeard
A c. 1724 engraved print by Benjamin Cole of Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718). First appeared in an early edition of a 'General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates' by Charles Johnson (likely a pseudonym...
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John Rackham ('Calico Jack')
An early 18th-century print of the English pirate John Rackham, otherwise known as 'Calico Jack' (d. 1720). The illustration appeared in an early edition of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by Captain...
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The Hanging of Stede Bonnet
An early 18th-century engraving showing the hanging of the Barbadian pirate Stede Bonnet in South Carolina in November 1718. (From an edition of 'A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates' by D. Defoe/Charles...
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Saint George's Chapel, Windsor
The coats of arms of the knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the order's religious headquarters, the mid-14th century CE Saint George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England.
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Charles Vane
An illustration of the English pirate Charles Vane, active in the Caribbean and off the east coast of North America in the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was tried and hanged in Jamaica in 1720. (From an early edition of A General History of...
