Eras

Ancient

Detail of a cave painting at Lascaux, France. © Getty

Prehistoric

Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre. © Getty

Ancient Egypt

Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. © Getty

Ancient Greece

Colosseum in Rome, Italy. © Getty

Ancient Rome

Middle Ages

Anglo-Saxon helmet from Sutton Hoo. © Getty

Anglo-Saxons

Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. © Getty

Vikings

Bayeux Tapestry depicting Norman conquest of England in 1066. © Getty

Normans

13th Century battle scene. © Getty

Medieval

Marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France. © Getty

Plantagenets

Early Modern

An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1590. © Getty

Tudors

Triptych portrait of King Charles I of England by Sir Anthony Van Dyck. © Getty

Stuarts

Portrait of the King George III in his Coronation Robes. © Getty

Georgians

Modern

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with Five of their Children, 1846. © Getty

Victorians

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette views the construction of the Northern Outfall sewer. He constructed London's drainage system and the Thames Embankment and was a pioneer of public health engineering. © Getty

19th Century

Apollo 11 - Astronaut Edwin Aldrin poses beside the U.S. flag that has been placed on the moon, 1969. © NASA

20th century

Martin Luther King Jr. waves to the vast crowd that has amassed for the March on Washington © Getty

Modern

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World War I

Soldier Demonstrating a tommy gun to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. © Getty

World War II

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Cold War

German SA Troops Marching with Nazi Flags at Nuremberg, 1933. © Getty

Nazi Germany