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Painting of Christ in majesty, photograph by Alena Belova, Eastern Desert, Egypt, 22 September 2026. Depicted here is the apse painting of Christ in majesty in the Church of Saint Anthony at the Monastery...

Postern tunnel under Yerkapı, photograph by Alena Belova, Boğazkale, Türkiye, 16 November 2022. The corbel-vaulted postern tunnel pictured here, about 70 m long, runs beneath the artificial Yerkapı rampart at...

The Sphinx Gate on top of the Yerkapı rampart at the southern edge of the Upper City of Hattusa, photograph by Alena Belova, Boğazkale, Türkiye, 16 November 2022. Sphinx sculptures flank this passage at Hattusa, capital of...

The Lion Gate in the southwestern wall of the Upper City of Hattusa, photograph by Alena Belova, Boğazkale, Türkiye, 16 November 2022. Two lions carved from the massive gate stones (c. 14th-13th century BCE) guard the entrance...

Confederate General James Longstreet, photograph by E. & H. T. Anthony, 1862. DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, University Park.

Former Confederate General James Longstreet after the American Civil War, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1865-1880. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Hallstatt culture flourished across Central Europe during the Early Iron Age (c. 800-450 BCE), emerging from earlier Late Bronze Age traditions. Named after...

The Delhi Sultanate's Mamluk (or Slave) period (1206–1290) marked the emergence of a powerful Muslim-ruled state in northern India following the breakup...

The Second World War (1939–1945) pushed industrialized warfare to an unprecedented scale. Military effectiveness depended not only on weapons themselves but on the ability...

The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was the United States' acquisition of France's territorial claim to approximately 828,000 square miles (2.14 million km²) of North...