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Building the Transcaspian Railway
An engraving showing the construction of the Russian-backed Transcaspian railway in the 1880s. Britian regarded the railway as a threat to British India during the Great Game.
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Potala Palace, Tibet
A 1938 photograph of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. The palace was first built in the 17th century and was the residence of the Dalai Lamas. In the foreground Buddhist monks use traditional horned instruments. German...
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Dog-Shaped Gold Amulet From Kish - Neo-Babylonian Period, 700-500 BCE
Dog-shaped amulet, gold sculpture, Kish, modern-day Babil Governorate, Iraq, 700-500 BCE. Kish, in ancient Mesopotamia, was one of the major centres of political power and economic activity under the Sumerians and Babylonians. Its prosperity...
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Map of the Second Punic War (218 - 201 BCE) - Hannibal, Scipio, Rome, and the fall of Carthaginian power
The Second Punic War (218–201 BCE) was the decisive conflict between the Roman Republic and Carthage for dominance in the western Mediterranean. It grew out of Carthage’s recovery after the First Punic War (264–241 BCE), especially the Barcid...
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Janissary Uniform, Early 19th Century
Illustration of a Janissary's uniform, drawing by John Heaviside Clark, included in Thomas McLean's The Military Costume of Turkey. Illustrated by a Series of Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot, plate 5, 1818. This image of an early...
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Portrait of Miklós Horthy 1927
Painting of Admiral Miklós Horthy, oil on canvas painting by Philip de László, Gödöllő, 1927. This painting depicts Admiral Miklós Horthy, regent of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World War II. Hungarian National Gallery...
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Map of the Dutch Commercial Empire, c. 1665 - A Global Network of Commerce, Exploration and Maritime Power
A map of the Dutch commercial empire which reached its height during the Dutch Golden Age (c. 1588-1672), when the Dutch Republic (1588-1795) emerged as one of the world’s foremost maritime and economic powers. Unlike many territorial empires...
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Map of the Norman World, c. 1130 - From Viking Settlers to a Trans-Mediterranean Networks
The Norman world (c. 10th–13th centuries CE) was not a single unified empire, but a far-reaching network of Norman-ruled principalities, kingdoms, military expeditions, and frontier lordships connected through conquest, migration, marriage...
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Twelve Greatest Imperial Expansions of a Single Reign - History's Greatest Empire Builders
Imperial expansion has been one of the most significant forces shaping world history, transforming regional states into vast, multiethnic empires that connected distant peoples, economies, and cultures. From the rise of the Achaemenid Empire...
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Bell Piano with Ivory Keys
A photograph showing a detail of a Canadian Bell piano with ivory and ebony keys.
