Fortress Gallery

Mycenae in ancient Greece, circa 1400 BC

Mycenae in ancient Greece at the height of its culture, circa 1400 BC.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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PANC2A-00083

Persians hurling cats at Pelusium's defenders during Cambyses II's conquest of Egypt, 525 BC.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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EXPL2A-00295

Champlain's Quebec fort, 1613, showing the dwellings (C, D), drawbridge (I), Moat (M), cannon (N), garden (O).
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of Champlain's drawing

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