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Remains of the dry moat at Hara Castle, photograph by Matthew Allison, 4 October 2025. A dry moat that protected the inner ward of Hara Castle, Minamishimabara. Although the castle itself is now gone, this dry moat, which has widened due...

Stone statues overlook the Ariake Sea at Hara Castle, photograph by Matthew Allison, 4 October 2025. At the highest point of Hara Castle, where the inner ward housing the Shimabara Rebellion's leaders would have once been, three stone statues...

Stone ramparts of the inner ward at Hara Castle, photograph by Matthew Allison, 4 October 2025. Unlike much of Hara Castle at the end of the Shimabara Rebellion, the ishigaki (stone ramparts) that form the foundation of the inner ward were...

A statue of Evliya Çelebi, photograph by Globetrotter19, 2016. Depicted here is a 2014 sculpture of Evliya Çelebi (1611-1682), created by Piros Rostás Bea, in a small memorial park at Eger Castle in Heves County, Hungary. Çelebi was the...

Krishna and the gopis celebrate Holi, watercolour painting, c. 1765. Holi is a festival of spring, of colours, and of happiness. This image depicts Holi being celebrated in the Mughal era. Royal Collection Trust, Windsor.

The emergence of Spain as a global imperial power began with the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon under Isabella I of Castile (reign 1474–1504) and Ferdinand II of Aragon (reign 1479–1516). Their reigns marked a turning...

The territorial organization of the Roman Empire at the close of the Flavian dynasty (69–96 CE) reflects a period of consolidation following the political crisis that ended the Julio-Claudian line. After the turmoil of the Year of the Four...

An 1880 oil on canvas painting The Defence of Rorke's Drift by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. The battle of Rorke's Drift saw a small mission station attacked by Zulu warriors during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Royal Collection

An 1881 photograph of John Chard, a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers who, as a lieutenant, famously led his men at the battle of Rorke's Drift, a small mission station attacked by Zulu warriors during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879...

The Indus Valley Civilization (c. 3300–1300 BCE) was one of the earliest complex societies of the Bronze Age world, extending across parts of present-day Pakistan and northwestern India. Its most developed phase, often called the Mature Harappan...