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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)

An April 1915 photograph of Australian troops, members of the ANZAC, landing during the failed Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16 in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

A November 1915 photograph of New Zealand troops, members of the ANZAC, about to land during the failed Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-6 in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A December 1915 photograph of a Maori soldier, member of the ANZAC, taken in the trenches during the failed Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-6 in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A December 1915 photograph showing the successful evacuation from the beaches of the failed Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-6 in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of one of the Allied landing beaches during the failed Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-6 in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

Portrait of Confederate General James Longstreet, photograph by S. T. Blessing, c. 1861-1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.