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As part of Herod the Great's building program, about Herod's Harbor in Caesarea Maritima, Josephus mentions “a great number of arches where the mariners dwelt” and “very large towers on a wall that ran around it.” The breakwater arms to which...

Queen Maya’s dream is explained, stone relief from the Gandhara region, modern-day Pakistan, circa 100-300 CE. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.

Jason and the Argonauts arriving at Colchis. The Argonautica tells the myth of their voyage to retrieve the Golden Fleece, painting by Charles de La Fosse, circa 1672. Palace of Versailles.

Detail photo depicting the virgin martyr Saint Agnes of Rome (circa 291-304), patron saint of young girls, those seeking chastity and purity, and rape survivors. She is depicted holding a lamb (agnus in Latin), as she has been since the Middle...

This map illustrates the Russian Revolution of 1905, a wave of political and social unrest across the Russian Empire following defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). The revolution was sparked by Bloody Sunday on 22 January 1905, when...

Statue of Alfred the Great (reign 871-899), King of Wessex, in Wantage, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), his birthplace.

The Swanborough Tump Memorial records a meeting between King Aethelred of Wessex (reign 865-871) and his brother, Alfred the Great (reign 871-899), in 870, where they made provisions for the inheritance of various estates to the children...

King Alfred’s Monument at Athelney, Somerset. Built in 1801, it commemorates the time Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) spent in exile in the Somerset marshes during the early months of 878, when he built a fortress at Athelney.

Statue of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899), in Trinity Church Square, Southwark, London, designed by James George Bubb in 1824.

Statue of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) at the now ruined Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, which he founded in 888. Designed in 1984 by Andrew DuMont for a school, it was relocated to the abbey gardens in 2004.