Images

Roman sculpture of an elderly woman, c. 14-68 CE, a copy of a 2nd-century BCE Hellenistic original. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A photograph showing U.S. troops (7th Corps) breaching the sea wall at Utah Beach during the D-Day Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

The forward observation post belonging to the German gun battery at Pointe du Hoc, located between Utah Beach and Omaha Beach during the D-Day Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944.

A photograph of U.S. infantry troops (U.S. 7th Corps) landing at Utah Beach on D-Day 6 June 1944 during the Normandy Landings of WWII. (Imperial War Museums)

Cheyenne girl with braids, wearing a dress decorated with elk teeth, seated, facing front, photo by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1910. Library of Congress Prints, and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

A map illustrating the Castles of the Loire, or "Châteaux de la Loire," the numerous (over 300 castles) grand and historic castles located in the Loire Valley region of France. Many of these castles, built primarily during the Renaissance...

Portrait of Samuel Adams as he looked in 1795, as governor of Massachusetts, mezzotint by an artist with the surname Graham in 1797, based on a lost portrait by Major John Johnson.

Fresco showing a priest wearing a mask of Anubis, from the Temple of Isis in Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum. The cult of Isis was widely spread in the Hellenistic period because of the religious links that the Greeks maintained...

A photograph showing U.S. troops carrying Bangalore torpedos on Omaha Beach during the Normandy Landings which began on D-Day 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Musuems)

A photograph showing the follow-up landing of men and material of the U.S. Army on Omaha Beach during the Normandy Landings which began on D-Day 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Musuems)