Images

A satellite image of the Straits of Magellan at the tip of South America. The Straits were first navigated by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22.

An illustration showing Victoria, one of the five ships which made up the fleet commanded by the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22. (Detail from a...

A posthumous portrait of the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22. (The Mariner's Museum Collection, Newport News, VA)

Artist's impression of a Roman Legion from the video game Total War Rome II.

A c. 1861 oil on canvas painting, Young Spartans Exercising, by Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the French impressionist painter. A typical early work of the artist when he was still interested in becoming a historical painter. The frieze-like quality...

The Matariki star cluster with known Māori names. Constellation also known as The Pleiades.

Krater decorated with Amazons fighting on horseback. From Apulia, southern Italy, c. 330-320 BCE. (Royal Museum of Mariemont)

Amphora depicting Hercules fighting the Amazon queen Hippolyte. Attributed to a painter of Bateman Group, c. 530 BCE. Attica. 21.4 cm (8.5 in). Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Terracotta plate depicting an Amazon carrying her dead comrade. Made c. 510 BCE. Attica. Black-figure pottery. 12.4 cm (5 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This black-figure vessel portrays Amazon warriors and Greeks battling each other. Attributed to the Group of Rhodes, c. 540 BCE. Black-figure pottery. 12.9 x 25.4 cm (5 1/16 x 10 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)