Images

A satellite image by the European Space Agency (ESA) of Africa's Great Lakes. Top centre is Lake Victoria. Bottom left is Lake Tanganyika. Top left is Lake Albert.

An 1872 photograph of the American-British journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

An 1864 photograph of the English explorer Richard Francis Burton (1821-90).

An engraving of an original photograph of the English explorer John Hanning Speke (1827-64), who identified Lake Victoria as the source of the Nile River in 1857.

An 1864 photograph by Thomas Annan of the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-73). National Galleries of Scotland

A colour illustration of Victoria Falls by Thomas Baines (1820-75), who accompanied explorer David Livingstone (1813-73) on his Second Zambezi Expedition (1858-64). The falls are located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

At the time of Philip II’s death (reign 359–336 BCE), the Kingdom of Macedon had emerged as the dominant power in the Hellenic world. Through sustained military reform, most notably the development of the Macedonian phalanx, and a combination...

Around c. 1200 BCE, the southern Levant stood at a critical point of transformation following the decline of Late Bronze Age systems. For centuries, Egyptian hegemony under rulers such as Ramesses II (reign 1279–1213 BCE) and his successors...

A photograph showing British troops arresting a Mau Mau suspect during the Mau Mau rebellion (1952-60) in British-controlled Kenya. Imperial War Museums, UK.

A 1949 photograph of the Kenyan nationalist leader Jomo Kenyatta (1894-1978). Kenyatta became Kenya's first prime minister when the country gained independence in 1963 and then its first president in 1964 until his death in 1978. Photograph...