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Syrian auxiliary archer of the Roman Empire

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Sudanese troops on the charge against Anglo-Egyptian forces, 1898

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The US 26th Cavalry (recruited mostly from Filipinos) charging Imperial Japanese troops in WW2

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Redrawing of wall painting found at the neolithic city of Çatalhöyük, likely depicting the settlement and adjacent mountains

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Reconstruction showing the use of space and the layout of a typical house in the early city of Çatalhöyük. Illustration by Kathryn Killackey.

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US cavalry during the intervention in Mexico, 1916

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Pro-White Army French troops in Odessa against the Red Army in the Russian Civil War

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Çatalhöyük, among the first known cities

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Cutaway of 1930s French aircraft

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Ancient Roman undergarments

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Takeoff over Cairo, Egypt, 1932

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China Rhyming » Blog Archive » Anonymous Sketches from Canton and Macao 1840s

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These sketches recently came up for auction – very interesting indeed. Clearly the artist was in Macao and possibly near Canton, in or around the time of the First Opium War (1839-1842) – certainly, as Captain John Spencer Churchill died at Macao in 1840 these sketches are slightly later. The sketch of the attack on Canton in 1840 suggests the artist was with the Navy in China – perhaps HMS Volage or HMS Hyacinth. Sadly though they remain unattributed.

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Torpedoing of HIJMS Idzumo in Shanghai, 1937

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Small Mesopotamian village

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Spanish aircraft carrier Dedalo with a dirigible moored (1920s-1930s)

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Chinese Nationalist troops charge Japanese invaders with a motley array of weapons, Second Sino-Japanese War

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Depiction of a 17th century AD armored war dog

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Model depicting guerilla tunnels in China used against Imperial Japanese forces in the 1930s and 1940s

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Late Roman troops in formation against Gothic tribesmen

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Napoleonic hussars on the charge

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Diorama depicting pre-modern Chinese mint-workers (literally) making money 💰

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Japanese warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1573 AD

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Reconstruction of a mural from the Stoa Poikile (original created 460 BCE) depicting the Battle of Marathon between Greeks and Athenians

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John Alloo's Chinese restaurant, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1855

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John Alloo's Chinese restaurant, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1855

John Alloo's Chinese restaurant, Ballarat

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Gold diggings, Ararat, Victoria, Australia, c.1858, by Edward Roper

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Gold diggings, Ararat, Victoria, Australia, c.1858, by Edward Roper
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Imagining of a Mesopotamian city-state

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Sculptures depicting the Chinese Revolution of 1911 against the Qing Dynasty

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Imagining of the Japanese woman warrior Tomoe Gozen

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Depiction of the Jintian Uprising in 1851, Qing-Dynasty China

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Rioters during the Bristol Rebellion

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Imperial German minelaying submarine cutaway, WW1

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Multilayered defenses of the Pictish fortress at Dundurn under attack

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French infantryman, 1712 AD

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Depiction of Chinese forces destroying illegally imported British opium before the First Opium War

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A Slavic prince pays respects to a Mongol Khan

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Depiction of the Imperial Court in Qing Dynasty China

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Harvest-time in Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Mesopotamian village

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Railway network in the United States at the start of the US Civil War

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Map of the United States with railways at the start of the civil war.
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Pictish fort at Dunnottar, Scotland

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Spanish conquistadors being attacked on a causeway into Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital

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Spanish and Aztec forces clash at the Battle of Otumba, 1520 AD

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Syro-Canaanite heavy war chariot, 15th century BCE

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Diagram of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, Kyiv

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Illustration of the Mongol Siege of Kyiv

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A scene of Late Roman armor repair and maintenance in Britain

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Making parchment in the Medieval period

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Dutch infantry at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815

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Different designs of Ancient Roman mail and scale body armor

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Jan Zizka commanding Hussite revolutionaries against Catholic invaders

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Swiss pikemen and German Landsknecht mercenaries clash in the Battle of Dornach, 1499 AD

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Model of a ~1st century AD boat made for the Sea of Galilee

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Boat arriving at the Pictish fort at Portknockie, Scotland, ~780 AD

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Macedonian and Greek troops fighting in the Lamian War after the death of Alexander the Great

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Single combat between soldiers of two ancient Italic polities

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Chaos in the melee after Roman legionaries break a Macedonian phalanx at the Battle of Pydna

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Numidian, Carthaginian, and Gallic horsemen pursuing a Roman (leftmost), Second Punic War, 218 BCE

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Thracian warrior, 5th century BCE

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The Late Roman Army unsuccessfully defends the city of Amida against a Persian siege, 359 AD

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18th century AD illustrations of arms and armor, India

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Romans erecting a ramp to assail the otherwise unreachable fortress of Masada during the First Jewish-Roman War

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The Emperor Vespasian and his son, Titus, give various military decorations for valor to the commander of the 10th Legion

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Model reconstruction of the Roman villa in Fishbourne, UK

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Norse-Gaelic Gallowglass mercenaries

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King Francis I of France during the Battle of Pavia

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Gallic warriors preparing to attack the Roman 12th Legion at Octodurus

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Spartan cavalry running down fleeing rival Greeks, Battle of Nemea

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A Roman commander and staff

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Stone age camp

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Iron Age Alpine tribal ritual (burial?)

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14th century AD Varangian Guard in Byzantine service

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Ancient Celtic warriors driven off by Greek skirmishers

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Mycenean Greek warriors hunting lions, ~15th century BCE

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Qin and Zhao forces clash during the unification of China, 260 BCE

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Payday for the Legions! Roman troops receiving their triannual pay

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Roman forces preparing a bridge

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Neolithic conflict in the Alps

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Neolithic lakeside dwelling in the Alps

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Chalcolithic era herder in the Alps

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Doomed Roman legionary veterans holding off Briton rebels in Camulodunum

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