Images

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, depicting the Great Siege of Gibraltar (24 June 1779 to 7 February 1783), part of the American Revolutionary War, oil on canvas by John Trumbull, 1789. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A painting portraying Charles Gravier, count of Vergennes, State minister of Foreign Affairs (1717-1787). Oil on canvas painting, by Antoine-François Callet (1741-1823). From the Palace of Versailles collection.

A c. 1670 anonymous painting titled The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's. The Great Fire of London ravished the English capital in September 1666 destroying over 13,000 buildings. (Yale Center for British Art, Yale University...

Scythians shooting with bows, from Kerch, c. 475-450 BCE. Photographed at the Louvre, Paris, in 2007.

Relief of a Scythian warrior with an axe, bow, and spear, 4th-2nd century BCE. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Artist's impression of a 7th-6th-century BCE Scythian warrior.

A 1642 painting by William Dobson of the future Charles II of England (r. 1660-1685 CE). (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh)

A c. 1683 painting by John Riley of Charles II of England (r. 1660-1685 CE) wearing armour and with the new British Crown Jewels. (The Weiss Gallery)

Banquet of Thyestes, fresco by Orlando Parentini, between 1559 and 1565. Room XX of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Vatican City Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT

Roman terracotta plaque depicting Pelops and Hippodamia, 27 BCE to 68 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.