Some of the best historical photos, images, maps and graphics that we have found on the web and in books. This history by picture is history as you have not seen it before. Enjoy!
Well, actually it is supposed to be Nero and his mother, but this could be the King in Camelot CSI.
The Mughal Emperor marries. Fireworks explode.
Lincoln is dead: a nation (or at least a good part of half of it) in black.
Leni Riefenstahl’s coming face to face with Nazi brutality as 22 Polish civilians butchered, 1939.
the Devil carries (a plaster cast?) Christ away
1868 the inhabitants of a London slum alley gather together for a portrait.
Plane comes down badly on aircraft carrier: did he survive?
Rare shot of bombs coming down…
Waiting to take off the USS Lexington…
Allied troops take the village of Cassino: the monastery remains…
The head a bit too small perhaps…
Tsar Nicholas with friend, flying? 1899
Vietnam babies being flown to the US…