Images

Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction, with two airplanes-Charles Ulm's "Southern Sun" & a Gypsy Moth. Photomontage by Edward Searl. The aeroplanes were added to the already dramatic image of the two halves of the Harbour Bridge arch...

Circular Quay (Sydney, Australia) showing trams, six K-class ferries, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, c. 1930s.

Siddhartha and Yasodhara marriage ceremony, depicting the couple circling around the sacred marriage fire, 2nd-3rd century CE. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

Minaret of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Cairo. Its helical outer staircase has been influenced by the minaret at the Great Mosque of Samarra, Iraq c. 851

An illustration of the Church of Nativity, Bethlehem, basilica and grounds 1486, as depicted by Konrad von Grünenberg in "Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem" (1487)

A diagram of a retracting gun turret of the Maginot Line, France's Second Woorld War (1939-45) defences along the border with Germany and Switzerland.

A photograph of members of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France during the Phoney War. Taken in January 1940. (Imperial War Museums)

Exotic animal transportation, Roman mosaic in the Villa del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, 4th century. Image published in Le Musée absolu.

A 6th-century encaustic icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

A fresco of the early Orthodox Saint Ignatius of Antioch who died in the 2nd century CE.