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A detail of an Attic black-figure amphora showing two hoplites and an old man seated. 6th century BCE. From a tomb in Cerveteri. (Archaeological Museum, Milan, Italy)

An Attic black-figure plate from the Etruscan city of Vulci, central Italy. The figure is an archer blowing the trumpet typically used in battles. 520-500 BCE. (British Museum, London)

An Arapaho warrior named "Black Man", oil on canvas by Elbridge Ayer Burbank, 1899.

View of the eastern Black Sea coast in Georgia from the Petra Justininia fortress looking northwards towards Phasis (modern-day Poti).

An early 20th-century illustration showing guards taunting the inmates of the Black Hole of Calcutta. Following the capture of the East India Company's Fort William in June 1756, a number of soldiers and civilians were kept in this small...

James Armistead Lafayette (l. c. 1748-1832) was an African American Patriot who served the Continental Army as a spy during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). During the Siege of Yorktown, he infiltrated the British camp to bring...

Native American women are traditionally held in high regard among the diverse nations, whether a given people are matrilineal or patrilineal. Traditionally, women were not only responsible for raising children and caring for the home but...

Medieval manuscript Gilles Li Muisis, c. 1350 CE MS 13076-77, fol. 12v Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique.

The Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, holding a bow, receives a tribute from Sua the Gilzanean. The king faces his field marshal and another official.From Nimrud, (ancient Kalhu), near the building of Shalmaneser, neo-Assyrian era, 827 BCE...

The Assyrian king Shalmaneser III beneath a parasol, accepts the tribute from Iaua from the house of Humri in 841 BCE. This is king Jehu of Israel, who appears in the Bible (2 Kings 9-10). From Nimrud, (ancient Kalhu), near the building of...