Walled City Gallery

Agriculture in the Middle Ages

Peasants sowing and cultivating fields outside a walled town in the Middle Ages.
Printed halftone reproduction of a medieval manuscript miniature

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Alexandria, Egypt, in the 1500s

Map of Alexandria, showing the lighthouse Pharos at the harbor entrance in the 1500s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a medieval illustration

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Siege of Magdeburg, Germany, Thirty Years War, 1631

Fall of Magdeburg to Flemish General Tilly, resulting in massacre of citizens, Thirty Years War, 1631.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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