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The Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933 was a possible arson attack on the German parliament building. The fire was blamed on a communist anarchist Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934), but it may have been the work of the Nazi party's paramilitary...

A June 1945 photograph showing the bomb-damaged Reichstag in Berlin. (Imperial War Museums, London)

A photograph of the Reichstag Fire of 27 February 1933, an arson attack on the German parliament blamed on a communist anarchist Marinus van der Lubbe but more likely the work of the Nazi party’s paramilitary group the Sturmabteilung (SA...

The Treatment Building centre (also known as the Temple of Telesphorus) of the Asklepieion of Pergamon was a circular structure with two floors and a 70m-long underground passage connecting it to the sacred area's centre. The Treatment Building...

The US Capitol Building around the year 1800, before it was burnt by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812. The Capitol Building housed both the US Congress and the Supreme Court. Painting by William Russell Birch, c. 1800.

The "Orthostat Building" in Tel Kabri's Area D-West originally discovered in 2011. The Orthostat Building is believed to have been constructed as part of the Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri between 1600 and 1550 BCE during...

The Polygonal Building in Dion (Greece), located at the intersection of the main cardo and the decumanus (east-west road), is thought to have been a palaestra due to a mosaic depicting wrestlers that was found in one of the rooms.

The ruins of Sapinuwa, an important Hittite military and religious centre (today Ortakoy in central Turkey), are spread out over 9 km2 and include many building foundations. A monumental structure with Cyclopean-walls, the so-called “Building...

View of one of the gardens of the Three Exedras building at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The building was a semicircular arcaded triclinium (dining room) with a large, rectangular fountain located to the north of the structure at the...

A two-storey building at Herculaneum. The town was buried under ash and lava following th eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is very rare for upper stories of Roman buildings with their wooden elements to survive.