Our Lance Collection of Images

Medieval battle scene

Jonathan battling Baccide, from a French translation of Josephus' History of the Jews, 1400s.
Printed color lithograph reproduction of a miniature in a 15th century French manuscript.

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Ancient Greeks holding the pass of Thermopylae, 480 BC

Greeks under Leonidas holding off the Persian invasion at Thermopylae, 480 BC.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Royal Persian Guard of Darius the Great

Archers of Darius's Royal Persian Guard, from the Hall of Artaxerxes II at Susa.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century photograph

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