The Oath of the Horatii is a famous work by neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David. It depicts a scene from a Roman legend about a dispute between the cities of Rome an...
The Sacra di San Michele (English: Saint Michael’s Abbey) is a religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano in northwestern Italy (the Piedmont region). It was originall...
The International Sand Sculpture Festival (FIESA) is the world’s largest sand sculpture event. It was first held in 2003 in Pera in southern Portugal and this tradi...
The notorious Auschwitz has become symbolic of the evils of the Holocaust. More than one million people died in its confines during the period from September 1940 to Janu...
This photo depicts the ruins of Leptis Magna, one of the most prominent cities of the Roman Empire. The ruins are located in what is now the city of Khums, Libya, some 13...
Landauer, the first gasoline-powered bus in the world, is the subject of this photo. The bus is shown in the service of the Netphener Omnibusgesellschaft, the first compa...
This photo, dated October 1880, was taken in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The men in the photo are fakirs, ascetic Sufi Muslim mystics and holy men who have taken vows to live...
This photo from an album titled “War Memories” (German: Kriegserinnerungen) by Max Kranz shows the ascent of a military observation balloon in the summer of 1...