Images

An illustration by Richard Caton Woodville Jr. showing an attack by the Ndebele of Matabeleland on Europeans invading the kingdom during the First Matabele War (1893-4).

An 1892 cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch magazine showing the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) astride Africa in illustration of his dream of connecting British controlled Cairo to Cape Town.

An 1836 painting by William Cornwallis Harris showing a kraal (village and cattle enclosure) of the Ndebele people who founded Matabeleland in Southern Africa (1838-97).

A photograph dating to the late-19th or early-20th century showing Ndebele women and children and traditional huts at Bulawayo, once the capital of Matabeleland. Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.

An illustrated portrait of Chief Lobengula, king of the Ndebele state, Matabeleland, from 1868 until his death in c. 1894. By Ralph Peacock, based on a sketch by E. A. Maund. Published by Rhodesian National Archives.

The Bosporan Kingdom (c. 480 BCE–341 CE) emerged around the Cimmerian Bosporus (modern Kerch Strait) as a hybrid Greco-local state founded by Greek colonists from cities such as Miletus. Rather than a single unified polity in the modern sense...

As the city of Caesarea Maritima was built on an east-west axis, with the temple in between the city and Herod's harbor, the magnificent Cardo Maximus set the tone for those getting to their desired destinations. A wide street impressively...

Frederick II of Prussia, later Frederick the Great (1712-1786), painting by Antoine Pesne, c. 1715-1720. This portrait shows Frederick the Great in his childhood. He was the son of the then-Crown Prince of Prussia, Frederick William, and...

Portrait of Frederick II (the Great), painting by Anton Graff, Berlin, 1781. A portrait of the King of Prussia, Frederick II (the Great), later in life at the age of 68. His military accomplishments during the Seven Year's War made him a...

Battle of Denain, 24 July 1712, oil on canvas by Jean Alaux, 1838. Depicted here are French soldiers charging enemy lines at the Battle of Denain (1712), one of the final major engagements of the War of the Spanish Succession. Palace of...