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Italian summer, 1980s. Photos by Slim Aarons
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Trinity College is home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries. Inside is The Long Room, which contains 200,000 historic volumes.
Photo by Failte Ireland
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Photos from the sunken Roman city of Baia. historydefined.net/sunken-city-of…
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John Cleese playing Football in between takes of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". 1974
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The Kiss of Death is a marble sculpture, found in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. The sculpture is thought to have been created by Jaume Barba.
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The arch of Trajan at Benevento is a colossal marble memorial of his victories on the Danube and in Mesopotamia, constructed from 114-117 AD. Learn more: bit.ly/3kwOfAX
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Construction of the Lincoln Memorial, 1921.
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1870 view of the Colosseum showing its semi-rural environs. Learn more: bit.ly/3zCyK2L
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Colorized footage of Berlin in the 1920s
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A Peruvian woman and her baby in the Andes, 1930s.
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An Ancient Egyptian student's school exercise with corrections in red, 1981 - 1802 BC. Image by the Met.
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The head of Sargon of Akkad. Learn more about the world's first emperor: bit.ly/3PankrO
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People in Times Square, New York City celebrate the surrender of Germany, May 7th, 1945.
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The armor of Karl X Gustav of Sweden, 1660.
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A horse-drawn omnibus from the 1890s. Two or three horses would pull them. Companies that ran them like London Omnibus had stables around the city to switch them out periodically.
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The unbroken seal On Tutankhamen’s Tomb, 1922
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Massive Roman aqueduct built in Segovia, Spain by emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 CE). More Roman innovations: bit.ly/3r2Spnt
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A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morozini, Doge of Venice (1619-1694). The owner of the bible could pull the silk bookmark to shoot while the book was still closed. Now on display at the Museo Correr in Venice
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The fan vaults on the ceiling of Bath Abbey, 1500's.
Photo by Angelo Hornak
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Weinhardt Mansion built in 1888 in Chicago, IL. Source: bit.ly/3voFEGP
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A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958 by Berenice Abbott.
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