Images

An 1899 watercolour and graphite painting by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) titled Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A photograph of the colonial bungalow Goldeneye, which was the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming (1908-64).

A photograph of a colonial bungalow in Nigeria. 1880-1905. © The Trustees of the British Museum

A photograph of a colonial-inspired bungalow in Austin, Texas. The bungalow was constructed in 1911 for May Brownlee, the widow of Dr. John Samuel Brownlee.

A photograph of Karen Blixen's bungalow in Kenya, now the Karen Blixen Museum. Blixen managed a coffee farm here and wrote of her experiences in the 1937 book Out of Africa. The bungalow was built around 1912.

The Ensigns of Royalty Resigned by Edward II, illustration published by Henry Delahoy Symonds, 29 March 1796. A figure, perhaps Roger Mortimer, outstretches his hand to take the royal sceptre from the deposed king Edward II, who would be...

Edward the Third Seizing Mortimer, illustration appearing in The Political Register, April 1768. In this dramatic print, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, is captured by the young king Edward III, son of the deposed and slain Edward II...

By c. 240 BCE, Ptolemaic Egypt stood as one of the most powerful and stable successor states of Alexander’s empire, reaching a high point under Ptolemy III Euergetes (reign 246-222 BCE). Emerging from the fragmentation that followed the death...

In his description of Caesarea Maritima, Flavius Josephus mentions a theater and amphitheater. With several restorations through the years, the theater, as it commands a view of the sea, is still used today. About 1 kilometer south of Herod's...

An 1857 illustration showing an attack on a colonial bungalow in Meerut, northern India during the Sepoy Mutiny. The Illustrated London News