Walled City Gallery

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Inca city of Cusco, Peru, in 1556, after the Spanish conquest.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 16th century illustration

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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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