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The villa in Casablanca, Morocco where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) stayed during the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War (1939-45). U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

The Kish Tablet, illustration by José-Manuel Benito, July 2006. The Kish Tablet, from Tell al-Uhaymir, Iraq, is among the oldest known inscriptions using proto-cuneiform symbols. Before this, writing was limited to numerical marks carved...

A photograph of the president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) and the British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) at the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial...

A photograph of the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965), and leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), having dinner at the Tehran Conference of November-December...

A photograph of the Soviet embassy in Tehran, Iran. This was the location of the Tehran Conference in late 1943 when the leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), and...

A photograph of leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), and British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) at the Tehran Conference of November-December 1943. The...

An engraving showing the construction of the Russian-backed Transcaspian railway in the 1880s. Britian regarded the railway as a threat to British India during the Great Game.

A 1938 photograph of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. The palace was first built in the 17th century and was the residence of the Dalai Lamas. In the foreground Buddhist monks use traditional horned instruments. German...

Dog-shaped amulet, gold sculpture, Kish, modern-day Babil Governorate, Iraq, 700-500 BCE. Kish, in ancient Mesopotamia, was one of the major centres of political power and economic activity under the Sumerians and Babylonians. Its prosperity...

The Second Punic War (218–201 BCE) was the decisive conflict between the Roman Republic and Carthage for dominance in the western Mediterranean. It grew out of Carthage’s recovery after the First Punic War (264–241 BCE), especially the Barcid...