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A colourised version of a 1940 photograph of the German battleship Bismarck at sea. The ship was sunk in action in May 1941 in the Atlantic. (German Federal Archives)

A 1907 CE Bible card depicting Moses and the parting of the Red Sea.

An 1876 landscape painting in oils, The Sea at L'Estaque, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. Cézanne lived in L'Estaque, 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Marseille, in the 1870s. The artist was captivated by the...

Front cover of Empire of the Black Sea by Duane Roller. Published by Oxford University Press

A fragment of a gilded silver wine jug from southern Spain (10.5 cm in height; ca. 1st cent. BCE; APM inv. no. 15.375). The image is “rolled” out to compensate for the curvature of the vase neck. The scene illustrates a Nereid riding on the...

A Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) illustration showing pirates attacking merchant ships in the South China Sea. From the Qing Scroll. (Maritime Museum, Hong Kong)

Richelieu on the Sea Wall of La Rochelle, oil on canvas by Henri-Paul Motte, 1881. Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle.

Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea, oil on canvas by Frederic Leighton, 1871. Collection Pérez Simón, Mexico

A photograph showing U.S. troops (7th Corps) breaching the sea wall at Utah Beach during the D-Day Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

A late-18th century map of the South China Sea. Drawn by Rigobert Bonne and G. Raynal