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Sword monument in Qooqqut, Greenland, photograph by Brandon M. Bender, 11 September 2025. This modern "sword in the stone" sculpture in Qooqqut stands near the site of the Norse farm V25 in the Western Settlement, a group of communities...

Choragic Monument of Lysicrates Dedication: 335/334 BCE Location: Athens, Greece

A monument to the 2 July 1644 Battle of Marston Moor during the English Civil Wars (1642-51). The battle was won decisively by the Parliamentarians.

Stephen F. Austin grave monument at Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Photograph by Billy Hathorn, 2013.

A monument commemorating the Kentuckians killed in the massacre following the Battle of the River Raisin (23 January 1813) at the battlefield in present-day Monroe, Michigan. Photo by Notorious4life, July 2010.

The Rev. James MacGregor Monument, Pictou, Nova Scotia. James MacGregor (1759-1830) was a Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who wrote the first anti-slavery tract in Canada and helped fugitive slaves arriving there from the USA. Photograph...

Funerary Monument of M. Annius Lucus, a centurion of several legions: Legio XV Apollinaris, Legio VII Gemina, Legio X Gemina, and Legio III Gallica, 170-200 CE. Aquincum Museum, Budapest.

King Alfred’s Monument at Athelney, Somerset. Built in 1801, it commemorates the time Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) spent in exile in the Somerset marshes during the early months of 878, when he built a fortress at Athelney.

A 3rd Century CE bas-relief in Taq-e Bostan, Iran commemorating the overthrow of the Parthian Empire by Ardashir I (180-240 CE, r. 224-240 CE), the founder of the Sasanian Empire. Ardashir I is depicted with his son Shapur I, (215-270 CE...

Most of the ruins seen in Laodicea on the Lycus in Phrygia (Turkey) today belong to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.