Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to [email protected]

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The Royal Court of Kongo, 1668 AD (lemmy.world)
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Depiction of Great Zimbabwe (lemmy.world)
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Sacred building of the Gurunsi people (lemmy.world)
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Mbanza Kongo, Angola, ~1668 (lemmy.world)
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Imagining of precolonial Kumasi, Ghana (lemmy.world)
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Reconstruction of Yeha, Ethiopia, in the 1st millennium BCE (lemmy.world)
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The 54th Massachusetts, an African-American unit, charges the Confederate garrison at Fort Wagner, US Civil War, 1863 (lemmy.world)
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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26015783

source: https://www.statista.com/chart/3441/countries-never-invaded-by-britain/

source's source: https://archive.org/details/allcountriesweve0000layc/mode/2up

cover of the book "All the countries we've ever invaded, and the few we never got round to" by Stuart Laycock

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Antananarivo, Madagascar, around 1866 AD (lemmy.world)
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Reconstruction of 1st century AD Meroe, located in what-is-now Sudan (lemmy.world)
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Imagining of Mansa Musa of Mali's journey through Egypt (lemmy.world)
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Imperial Roman barracks diagram (lemmy.world)
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Diagram of a West African settlement (lemmy.world)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musgum_people

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1000 years of European swords (lemmy.world)
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Medieval Timbuktu, Mali Empire (lemmy.world)
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Stylized depiction of the Battle of Adwa, an Ethiopian victory against invading Italian colonial forces (lemmy.world)
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Mansa Musa of Mali and his court, 14th century AD (lemmy.world)
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Effects of a Viking-age charge in wedge-formation (lemmy.world)
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Medieval Chinese fortress repelling an assault (lemmy.world)
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Medieval Cambodian siege crossbows, elephant-mounted (lemmy.world)
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Hussite militia in war-wagons repelling Catholic crusaders (lemmy.world)
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3rd century AD Roman heavy cavalryman (lemmy.world)
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Carthaginian mercenaries and Roman forces of the Mid-Republic clash (lemmy.world)
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Union river gunboat diagram, US Civil War (lemmy.world)
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Relief depicting escaping slaves in the Antebellum USA, led by Harriet Tubman (lemmy.world)
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