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Situated in North Greece at the border of East Macedonia and Thrace, ancient Philippi stood about 16 km N-NW of the port city Neapolis (modern Kavalla) and originally bore the name Krenides (from the Greek for “spring”) in recognition of...

The coat of arms of John Hawkins (1532-1595 CE). It was granted in 1565 CE following his second successful expedition to transport slaves from West Africa to the Americas.

An illustration of the carrack Jesus of Lubeck, used by John Hawkins (1532-1595 CE) to transport slaves from West Africa to the Americas in the 1560s CE. Anthony Roll, 1546 CE. (British Library, London)

Text of 7th volume of Mozi or Mo Ti (墨子卷之七), as written at upper-right.

A c. 1581 CE portrait by an unknown artist of the English mariner, privateer and slave trader Sir John Hawkins (1532-95 CE). (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England)

An illustration of how the 5th century BCE Erechtheion on the Athenian acropolis may have looked with its original paintwork. Original photograph by Mark Cartwright Reconstruction artwork by Tabo Ayala / Arqueo Tabo

Earthenware figurine depicting the Queen Mother of the West. c. 2nd century CE, Eastern Han Dynasty. Cat # 2000.106.1740. From the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China at the Royal Ontario Museum.

"San Antonio Abad" by Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1664 CE.

A 1907 CE painting showing ships of the English Royal Navy during the Elizabethan period (1558-1603 CE).

An illustration of Don Antonio of Portugal (l. 1531-1595 CE) who in 1580 CE was deposed as king by Philip II of Spain (r. 1556-1598 CE). One of the aims of the failed 1589 CE Drake-Norris Expedition which attacked Lisbon was to reinstall...