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The Ninth Wave, oil on canvas painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850. Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The painting depicts the sea after a huge night storm and people injured in a shipwreck. The sun's rays illuminate the huge waves...

A map illustrating the rise and spread of the Second Wave Civilizations between c. 500 BCE and 200 CE (including the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, and India) with the flows of trade in major goods and resources.

A map illustrating the rise and spread of the Second Wave Civilizations between c. 500 BCE and 200 CE (including the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, and India).

Leo the V the Armenian was emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 813 to 820 CE. He was of Armenian descent and the last ruler of the Isaurian dynasty which had been founded by Leo III (r. 717-741 CE). The emperor's reign, after early military...

The Schweinfurt-Regensburg raids in Germany were a series of attacks by B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers of the United States Air Force in August and October 1943 during the Second World War (1939-45). Schweinfurt had several...

The city of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) was founded by Roman emperor Constantine I in 324 CE and it acted as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire as it has later become known, for well over 1,000 years. Although...

A map illustrating the rise and spread of the Second-Wave Civilizations between c. 500 BCE and 200 CE, including the most notable urban settlements where civilizations flourished, transforming societies through trade, cultural exchange, and...

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced a series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints known as the 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji' (Fugaku Sanjurokkei). One of the set, 'Beneath the Wave off Kanagawa', is perhaps the most famous of all Japanese artworks...

An 1882 CE engraving, titled "Heimdallr Lifted by his Mothers, the Nine Wave Maidens" by German artist Carl Ehrenberg (1840-1914 CE). The illustration depicts the Norse god Heimdall being born. Published in Nordisch-germanische Götter und...

This relief is part of a larger sequence showing the Assyrian military campaign and attack on the city of -alammu. The city gate, wall, and towers are shown here; the towers are occupied by soldiers trying to defend their city against the...