Images

An 1879 engraving titled The Burning of Ulundi. Ulundi was the Zulu capital and scene of the final battle of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

An 1882 oil on canvas painting by Paul Joseph Jamin titled Death of the Prince Imperial. The scene shows the death of Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial in a skirmish during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Château de Compiègne.

A mid-19th-century illustration of a typical village of the Zulu Kingdom. Women are shown making beer.

A 1917 photograph of a Zulu warrior wearing traditional dress. He holds an assegai stabbing spear and a light club. New York Public Library

The Giza plateau formed one of the most important royal funerary landscapes of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, a period sometimes described as the “Age of the Pyramids.” Located near Memphis, the political center of early dynastic Egypt, Giza became...

Remains of the dry moat at Hara Castle, photograph by Matthew Allison, 4 October 2025. A dry moat that protected the inner ward of Hara Castle, Minamishimabara. Although the castle itself is now gone, this dry moat, which has widened due...

Stone statues overlook the Ariake Sea at Hara Castle, photograph by Matthew Allison, 4 October 2025. At the highest point of Hara Castle, where the inner ward housing the Shimabara Rebellion's leaders would have once been, three stone statues...

Stone ramparts of the inner ward at Hara Castle, photograph by Matthew Allison, 4 October 2025. Unlike much of Hara Castle at the end of the Shimabara Rebellion, the ishigaki (stone ramparts) that form the foundation of the inner ward were...

A statue of Evliya Çelebi, photograph by Globetrotter19, 2016. Depicted here is a 2014 sculpture of Evliya Çelebi (1611-1682), created by Piros Rostás Bea, in a small memorial park at Eger Castle in Heves County, Hungary. Çelebi was the...

Krishna and the gopis celebrate Holi, watercolour painting, c. 1765. Holi is a festival of spring, of colours, and of happiness. This image depicts Holi being celebrated in the Mughal era. Royal Collection Trust, Windsor.