Images

A 1916 photograph of a British 18-pounder artillery gun on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle with bayonet attached, the standard weapon for British Army soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

A 1918 photograph of British soldiers on the Western Front using a Lewis machine-gun during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of a single-seater Sopwith Camel biplane, one of the most successful fighters in the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

Statue of Moses Austin, City Hall Plaza, San Antonio, Texas. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2014. Father of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas", Moses initiated the settlement of the region that would be completed by his famous son...

Stephen F. Austin grave monument at Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Photograph by Billy Hathorn, 2013.

The Achaemenid Persian Empire emerged in the mid-6th century BCE when Cyrus II (reign 559–530 BCE) united the Persian tribes and overthrew the Median kingdom (c. 550 BCE), establishing a new imperial state that would reshape the political...

A map of the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-6 in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-18). (Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales)

The network popularly known as the Silk Road refers not to a single route but to a shifting constellation of overland and maritime pathways that connected East and West across more than a millennium. Long before the term was coined in the...

A c. 1914 photograph of Winston Churchill (1874-1965), then First Lord of the Admiralty. Elliot & Fry Photographers. (National Portrait Gallery, London)