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French Revolutionary journalist Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) spends time with his wife Lucille (1771-1794) and child Horace-Camille (1792-1825), oil on canvas, formerly attributed to Jacques-Louis David, c. 1792. Palace of Versailles.

Portrait of Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794), one of the most famous journalists during the French Revolution (1789-1799), oil on canvas by an anonymous painter, c. 1790. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

An 1846 illustration showing soldiers of the Sikh empire during the Anglo-Sikh Wars (1845-9) against the British East India Company. (By Lieut. G. F. Atkinson, London Illustrated News)

A map illustrating the troop positions of the British East India Company (pink) and the Sikh empire (yellow for the first battle line and red for the second line after a regrouping mid-battle) at the battle of Aliwal of 28 January 1846 during...

The trapezoidal paved forum (37 x 34 m) of Banasa (also Iulia Valentia Banasa), an ancient city of the province of Mauretania Tingitana (modern-day Morocco). The forum was lined by porticoes and flanked to the north by a rectangular basilica...

A villa complex at Lixus on the Atlantic coast (modern-day Morocco) from the time of Juba II (c. 48 BCE to 23 CE), the ruler of Mauretania. The palace-like residence was approximately 7,000 square metres with a long portico, a triclinium...

The small amphitheatre at Lixus, modern-day Morocco, had a semicircular cavea (seating section) designed to house theatrical plays and gladiatorial combats.

The Decumanus Maximus was the main east-west street of the ancient city of Volubilis (modern-day Morocco). It was paved with footways on either side and was lined with arcaded porticoes and shops.

A Roman mosaic in the House of Venus in Volubilis (modern-day Morocco) depicting Diana and a nymph surprised by the hunter Actaeon while bathing. In revenge, the goddess turned Actaeon into a stag. He was then killed by his dogs. The mosaic...

Fish-salting and garum-manufacturing workshops in Lixus (modern-day Morocco). The complex had 23 closely-spaced vats (cetariae) and functioned from 40/60 CE to the early 6th century CE. The factory had a salting capacity of over one million...