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12 Ancient Scripts We Still Cannot Read - Undeciphered Scripts & Lost Languages of the Ancient World
Throughout history, writing enabled societies to record administration, trade, law, religion, and historical events. From the earliest symbolic systems of Neolithic...
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Map of the Travels of Leo Africanus, c. 1509–1518 - Africa, Trade and Empires in the Early 16th Century
The travels of Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fāsī, c. 1494–c. 1554) illuminate the political, commercial, and cultural connections of early...
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Baroque Five Course Guitar
Five course guitar by Matteo Sellas, Venice, Italy c. 1630 to c. 1650. The five course guitar featured five double courses of gut strings, and often a decorative rose placed in the sound hole as well as a vaulted back...
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Map of the Sultanate of Rum & Anatolia, c. 1200 - From Manzikert to Köse Dağ - Seljuk Expansion and Fall
The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum (1077–1308) emerged amid the political fragmentation of Anatolia following the Great Seljuk victory over the Byzantine Empire at...
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Watercolour Painting of Almourol Castle
Almourol Castle, watercolour painting by Alfredo Roque Gameiro in Quadros da História de Portugal ("Pictures of the History of Portugal"), 1917.
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Latin Inscription at the Main Entrance of Almourol Castle
Latin inscription at the main entrance of Almourol Castle, photograph by Filipa Oliveira, Almourol, Portugal, May 2026. The inscription reads: “... factus domus Templi Portugalis procurator, hoc...
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Almourol Castle, South Entrance
South side of Almourol Castle, photograph by Filipa Oliveira, Almourol, Portugal, May 2026. After getting out of the boat and walking up to the southern side of the castle, one can spot the Latin inscription above...
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Francesco Corbetta, the Renowned Guitar Master
Francesco Corbetta famoss. Mastro di Chitarra, mezzotint by Henri Gascar, c. 1670 to c. 1700. The title of this mezzotint roughly translates to 'Francesco Corbetta, the Renowned Guitar Master'. Corbetta...
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Francesco Corbetta
Francesco Corbetta, engraving likely by either Ioan Thomas or Frederick Bouttats, 1648. This engraving of Francesco Corbetta appeared in Corbetta’s musical composition book Varii Scherzi di Sonate. The phrase at the top roughly...
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US Marines, Battle of Saipan
A photograph showing US Marines in the first wave of the amphibious assault in the battle of Saipan in the Mariana Islands (June 1944), part of WWII"s Pacific War.
US Signal Corps Archive
