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The Minoan ivory scepter discovered in Crete in 2024 is engraved with the longest Linear A inscription ever found. The inscription consists of approximately 119 signs covering the entire surface...

Miranda, the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, watches the shipwreck in Act I, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1916.

Miranda, a portrait of the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest looking pensively out at the sea, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1875.

Ariel, a spirit in service to Prospero in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1800. The Folger Shakespeare Library.

Carte détaillant le massacre d'Oradour-sur-Glane qui eut lieu le 10 juin 1944, près de Limoges dans le sud-ouest de la France. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-45), 643 hommes, femmes et enfants innocents furent...

An October 1942 photograph showing civilians collecting the dead during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler...

A September 1941 photograph of Red Army soldiers in the defensive trenches built during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany...

A map showing the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in the Second World War (1939-45). The siege...

A photograph of civilians in an air raid shelter during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in...

A photograph of a woman working in an armaments factory during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler...