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An 1880 oil on canvas painting by Alphonse de Neuville showing the defence of Rorke's Drift, a small mission station, immediately after the battle of Isandlwana, the first encounter of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Art Gallery of New South...

An 1882 photograph of a group of Zulu warriors in front of a traditional kraal, an enclosure for cattle. The men carry the assegai short spear, long spears, and cowhide shields. British Library, London.

A c. 1875 photograph of Cetshwayo kaMpande, king of the Zulus from 1872 to 1884. His reign came to an end after the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

A portrait of Frederic Thesiger, better known as Lord Chelmsford (1827-1905), who was appointed to lead a punitive British expedition into the Zulu kingdom but infamously lost the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first encounter...

An 1885 painting by C.E. Fripp titled Last Stand of the 24th, Isandlwana, which depicts the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War. National Army Museum, South Africa

The period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palatial system (c. 1200–1100 BCE) saw profound demographic and cultural reorganization across the Aegean. During the so-called Greek “Dark Age” (c. 1100–800 BCE), communities fragmented...

The tomb of Tutankhamun (c. 1345–1323 BCE; reign c. 1332–1323 BCE), located in the Valley of the Kings, offers a rare and largely intact snapshot of royal burial practice during Egypt’s New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 BCE). Although Tutankhamun’s...

The Death of Messalina, oil on canvas painting by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, 1916. Depicted here is the killing of Valeria Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius.

Proclaiming Claudius Emperor, oil on panel painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1867. Depicted here is Claudius being proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard following the assassination of Caligula.

The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt (1250–1517) emerged from the military elite of the late Ayyubid state and transformed a palace coup into one of the most durable powers of the late medieval Islamic world. Following the death of al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb...