Images

A photograph of Adolf Eichmann (1906-62) during his trial for war crimes in Israel in 1961. Eichmann, a senior member of the SS, had been a key figure in the transportation of Jewish people to Nazi death camps. (National Photo...

The Pit River winds through the Modoc Plateau, once the home of the Native American Modoc nation. Photograph by Robert F. Ettner, Natural Resources Staff Officer, Siskiyou National Forest, US Forest Service...

Mosaic icon of the Virgin Hodegetria from St. George Church, Ereğli (ancient Herakleia in Thrace), Turkey, early 14th century. National Archaeological Museum, Sofia.

Portrait of Roman emperor Diocletian (284-305 CE) from Brest village, Pleven region, Bulgaria, late 3rd to early 4th century CE. National Archaeological Museum, Sofia.

The Age of Exploration (15th–16th centuries) was driven by advances in shipbuilding, navigation, and maritime ambition that allowed European sailors to venture farther into the Atlantic...

The corpse of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) who was found guitly of war crimes and hanged 16 October 1946 after the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46).

A 1945 photograph of the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg, location of the post–WWII Nuremberg Trials (1945-6).

A photograph of Alois Hoellriegl giving evidence of Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). Hoellriegl was a guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of the Czech surgeon Dr Franz Blaha (far left) giving evidence of Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). Blaha was a noted surgeon and inmate at the Dachau concentration camp. (Imperial...

Kiowa Beaded Moccasins from Oklahoma, c. 1920. Oklahoma History Center.