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Abusina was a Roman military camp of the Roman province of Rhaetia. It is located at Eining on the Danube around 30 kilometres (984 ft) south-west of Regensburg, along the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes. Originally a timbered earth fort erected...

An artist's impression of how the pirate Stede Bonnet (1689-1718) may have looked. Captain Bonnet was known as the 'Gentleman Pirate' since he was a former plantation owner before he turned to piracy. He was hanged in South Carolina in 1718...

Black pepper (Piper nigrum).

Dried long pepper catkins (Piper longum).

The Jolly Roger flag of the Barbadian pirate Captain Stede Bonnet (d. 1718).

Baking oven in the Casa del Forno, Pompeii. A rare example of archaeological remains of an ancient bakery, Casa del Forno gives us a vivid picture of grinding grains, preparing the dough, and baking loaves in the Roman world.

Minoan limestone sarcophagus, c. 1400 BCE. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. This painting appears on one of the two longer sides of the sarcophagus. It shows a sacrificial procession, part of a funerary ritual, with a woman offering...

The Aalen Roman Fort was a Roman military camp on the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, a World Heritage Site in Germany. It was built in the 2nd century CE and was the largest cavalry garrison north of the Alps. The garrison was home to 1,000...

Ray Stevenson as the English pirate Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718) in the TV series Black Sails. © 2014 Starz

The east fort (Ostkastell) at Welzheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The site has been designed as an archaeological park with replicas of Roman stone monuments and explanatory plaques about Roman Welzheim. The fort was built in 160 CE and...