Painting of a European marketplace

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Selim I

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Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church

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Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany, 2 December 1938. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

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Old Norse sages describe Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir as 'the loveliest of women and nobel in every trait'. But this far-travelled Icelandic woman was eulogised largely not for her beauty and charm but as a strong-willed survivor who married three times and bore a son, Snorri, in Vinland (North America) during on of her intrepid voyages (Illustration by Lynn Hatzius)

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Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain as dictator from 1939 to 1975, raises his arm in salute

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People gather around the Mona Lisa painting after its return in January 1914

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Print of Hannibal ferrying his elephants over the Rhone on rafts during the Second Punic War

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Iron Age bronze head

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Male and female militia fighters on the march at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, July 1936. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Marble relief depicting the Praetorian Guard, legionnaires and elite soldiers. In the Louvre, Paris, France. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Photographs documenting the facial reconstruction of a soldier whose cheek was extensively wounded during the Battle of the Somme

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Illustration of last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, surrendering to the 'barbarian' Odoacer

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Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600

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The Parnethon, Athens

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Painting of Martin Luther translating the New Testament into German vernacular in 1521 (Photo by Fine Art Photographic Library/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Athenian red-figure cup showing a seated man with a naked boy in the inside tondo, 470 BC

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A bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar

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Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

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Brothers in arms Louis IX on his way to the Seventh Crusade, 1248. The French king kept his three brothers onside – preventing any potential family infighting – by providing them with huge lordships. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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