World History Archive May 2016 59-69

Greek ceramic decoration (Vase); Man and Ephebe. Late 6th Century BC.

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

The royal lion hunt Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace, Room C, panel 4. preparations for the hunt.

Assyrian Battle scene 865-860 BC, From Nimrud, Iraq; North-West Palace, Room B, panel 9. Assyrian cavalry charge the enemy.

Assyrian Battle scene 865-860 BC, From Nimrud, Iraq; North-West Palace, Room B, panel 9. Assyrian cavalry charge the enemy.

Assyrian Battle scene 865-860 BC, From Nimrud, Iraq; North-West Palace, Room B, panel 9. Assyrian cavalry charge the enemy.

Hunting gazelle. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace. A herd of gazelle, grazing peacefully, is disturbed by a huntsman waving a whi...

Hunting gazelle. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace. A herd of gazelle, grazing peacefully, is disturbed by a huntsman waving a whi...

Hunting gazelle. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace. A herd of gazelle, grazing peacefully, is disturbed by a huntsman waving a whi...

Xochiquetzal, Aztec Goddess of love and beauty. Mexico, 1325-1521 AD. Sculpted from volcanic rock

Xochiquetzal, Aztec Goddess of love and beauty. Mexico, 1325-1521 AD. Sculpted from volcanic rock

Xochiquetzal, Aztec Goddess of love and beauty. Mexico, 1325-1521 AD. Sculpted from volcanic rock

Lizard statue associated with conception or the force of procreation. Mayan 900 AD

S. Kukurudza: Soviet propaganda poster commemorating '15 years of Struggle for the General Party Line 1917-1932'

fight with enemy. World war Two; propaganda poster: soviet 1941

General Ngyen Van Giap addressing Vietnam Liberation Army in Cao Bang 1944

Interior of a modern home (Bedroom), American circa 1955

Interior of a modern home (lounge), American circa 1955

Interior of a modern home (lounge), American circa 1955

Duquenois-Levine Test: Step 2: Addition of hydrochloric acid. The Duquenois reagent is used in the Rapid Modified Duquenois-Levine test, an establishe...

Soviet Russian peasant girl 1950's

London after a German Luftwaffe air raid, during the Blitz of World war two 1940

Eagle front page from 1964. Eagle was a British children's comic published from 1950 to 1969. its most recognisable story was the science fiction, Dan...

Servants carrying dead lion. Wall frieze, Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, Iraq. North Palace

US Air Force B-17E Flying Fortress bombers in flight, USA World War two

US Air Force B-24D Liberators in formation, early 1943, USA World War two

World War two, US anti-aircraft emplacement outside Bastogne, Belgium 1942

World War two, German flamethrower unit, Eastern Front 1943

Lehnert & Landrock photograph of a young Arab girl, Tunisia 1910

Arthur Rothstein photograph of poor housing conditions in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, 1938

Captive US Air Force, Doolittle Raider pilot, blindfolded by Japanese captors. World War two 1942

Japanese man in Kimono with sword 1890 by Felice Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), an Italian-British photographer

group of SS officers in Auschwitz: From left, Karl Hoecker, Dr. Josef Mengele, Karl-Friedrich Hoecker (11 December 1911 - 30 January 2000) was a SS-Ob...

Nazi German Propaganda minister Josef Goebbels, congratulates a young soldier, after receiving the Iron Cross during the last weeks of World war two;...

Rally round the flag. 'We must have more men' 1915 World war One British propaganda poster showing a soldier bearing a rifle and bayonet, with the Bri...

Blood Chits, also called Identification or Rescue Flags, were designed to provide rapid identification of a downed flyer and facilitate assistance fro...

Gas masks for babies, in England, during World war two; 1940

A cable from New Zealand Prime Minister, Walter Nash extending his personal sympathy to Prime Minister Nehru of India on the death of Mahatma Gandhi

American flag printed as a colour woodcut on linen, celebrates the spirit of reunification in the heady days after the Civil War. It was created betwe...

Italian Fascist Black Brigade recruiting poster 1938

Romanian Communist leader, Georgiou-Dej meets Russian Leader Nikita Khrushchev, at Bucharest Airport 1960. Behind Georgiou-Dej is his successor Nicola...

Japanese children selling flowers. photograph by Renjyo Shimooka (c. 1862-78)

10 livres tournois banknote, issued by the Banque Royale, France, 1720. In 1716, Scottish economist John Law established a bank in France. It was boug...