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View of the Village of Doolin, Country Clare, Ireland from nearby hill.

View from the doorway of the 6th-century ringfort, Grianan of Aileach (Grianán Ailigh) on Greenan Mountain at Inishowen, County Donegal, Ireland.

The battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650 between the English Parliament's New Model Army led by Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and Scotland's army led by David Leslie (c. 1600-1682) was one of the last major battles of the English Civil Wars...

The Genpei War (1180-1185 CE), also known as the Taira-Minamoto War, was a conflict in Japan principally between two rival clans: the Minamoto and Taira, for control of the imperial throne. The civil war was punctuated by a typhoon, earthquake...

The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was a long and bitter conflict fought between Great Britain and its thirteen North American colonies over the Americans' liberties and, eventually, for the independence of the United States. The...

Quartzite plaque with a sculptor's trial image of the god Horus as a falcon. From Memphis, Late Period, after 700 BCE. (National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)

In primitive Irish, this reads " of Tob of the Sogain", a people known from later record. Ogam script was invented in the south of Ireland in the 4th century CE and used by Irish settlers in Britain. The notched letters on the edge of the...

Gold, 2400-2000 BCE. Mangerton, Kerry, Ireland. Though we assume this gold lunula (little moon in Latin) was a piece of jewellery, little is known about who would have worn it. Lunulae were made in Ireland and Britain during the Bronze...

This limestone doorjamb block bears the name of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. The name of the pharaoh is written inside cartouche, the royal name-ring, with the sun-disc above, and the hieroglyph for "gold," the symbol of eternity, below...

The mummy, wrapped in linen bandages, is enclosed in a body-shaped envelope of cartonnage (a light-weight material composed of layers of gummed linen and plaster, which could be moulded to the desired shape. The surface is decorated with...