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Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome, oil on canvas painting by Karl Theodor von Piloty, 1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Horace Russell, 1887. The painting presents...

Battle During the Retreat of Germanicus (Kampf beim Rückzug des Germanicus), oil on canvas painting by Ferdinand Leeke, 1898. Berlin State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Photo by Andres Kilger. The painting...

The systematic European colonization of North America unfolded between the first voyages of the 1490s and the outbreak of the French and Indian War in the 1750s. Spanish, French, English, and...

An early 18th-century print of the English pirate John Rackham, otherwise known as 'Calico Jack' (d. 1720). The illustration appeared in an early edition of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most...

Toby Schmitz as the English pirate John Rackham, aka 'Calico Jack' (d. 1720) in the TV series Black Sails. ©2017 Starz Entertainment

An image of a pirate using a telescope from the TV series Black Sails. The actor is Graham Hopkins. © 2014 Starz

An image of a pirate crew from the TV series Black Sails. © 2014 Starz

The backside of P.Mich.inv. 5552, showing portions of the Book of Enoch in Greek. Part of the Chester Beatty Papyri, most likely originated in Egypt, 4th century CE. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Library

Tom Hopper as the fictional pirate William "Billy Bones" Manderly in the TV series Black Sails. Billy Jones is a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. © 2014 Starz

Capture of the Galleon' by Howard Pyle, an illustration which first appeared in Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main in an 1887 edition of Harper's Magazine.