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Jabal Ikmah, often referred to as an ‘open-air library’, contains hundreds of inscriptions engraved and carved in relief on the rock faces and boulders of a gorge, not far from Dadan, the seat of the Dadanite and Lihhyanite kingdoms, Saudi...

Jabal Ikmah, often referred to as an ‘open-air library’, contains hundreds of inscriptions and pictograms engraved and carved in relief on the rock faces and boulders of a gorge, not far from Dadan, the seat of the Dadanite and Lihhyanite...

Jabal Ikmah, often referred to as an 'open-air library', contains hundreds of inscriptions engraved and carved in relief on the rock faces and boulders of a gorge, not far from Dadan, the seat of the Dadanite and Lihhyanite kingdoms, in Saudi...

The interior of a tomb at Hegra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site at modern AlUla, Saudi Arabia, ancient Kingdom of Nabatea, 1st century BCE to the early 2nd century CE.

The spectacular landscape of Hegra, a UNESCO World Heritage site at AlUla, Saudi Arabia.

Nabatean tomb at the archaeological site of Hegra, one of many found at AlUla in Saudi Arabia. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hegra was a key city of the Kingdom of Nabatea, whose capital was based at Petra in Jordan. The Nabateans were based...

A 1943 photograph of field marshal Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957) who led the defeated German Sixth Army during the battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 - February 1943) in the Second World War (1939-45). (National Museum of Denmark)

A 1950 photograph of Marshal Vasily Chuikov (1900-82), best known for leading the successful Soviet defence of Stalingrad during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 - February 1943) in the Second World War (1939-45).

A photograph of Soviet Red Army troops moving forward during the battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 - February 1943) during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Abolitionist and Civil Rights Activist Sojourner Truth, photograph by Randall Studio, 1864, printed c. 1870. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.