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Mosaic with a mask of the god Oceanus with lobster claws protruding from his head, and dolphins and fish escaping from his beard. Dated to 2nd-3rd century CE. Salón de los Mosaicos (Hall of Mosaics) Alcazar of the Christian Monarchs, Cordoba...

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Artist's impression of the Battle of Pelusium (525 BCE), showing the Persian army led by Cambyses II (525-522 BCE) on the left, and the Egyptian army led by Psametik III (526-525 BCE) on the right. The battle was a decisive Persian...

The Roman bridge of Córdoba is located in the Historic centre of Córdoba (declared a World Heritage Site in 1984), Andalusia, southern Spain. It was originally built in the early 1st century BCE across the Guadalquivir river, though it has...

View of the western wall of the terraced sanctuary of Munigua (Spain) built in around 70 CE. Located on the slope of a hill, the santuary was reinforced by buttresses at the rear, giving it the appearance of a fortress.

Munigua is the site of the Roman city of Municipium Flavium Muniguense and is located 8 kilometres (4.9 miles) from Villanueva del Río y Minas, in the province of Seville. Its origins are pre-Roman and it flourished between the 1st and 3rd...

The industrial area dedicated to the salting of fish and the production of the famous fish sauce (garum) in Baelo Claudia in southern Spain. The large basins dug into the ground served to pile up the pieces of fish to be salted. The fish...

An illustration from 1906 showing the discovery of Guy Fawkes beneath Westminster Palace and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot when he and his Catholic co-conspirators intended to blow up the English Parliament and James I of England (r. 1603-1625...

An 18th-century woodcut advertisement for Virginia tobacco. The image shows child slaves working on a tobacco plantation. (British Museum, London)

An 1861 oil painting titled 'Slaves Waiting for Sale' by Eyre Crowe (1824-1910). Richmond, Virginia. (Heinz Collection, Washington D.C.)