As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated painting, The Fighting Temeraire.

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Archeologists believe the Great Sphinx of Giza doesn't represent a mythological creature but an ancient pharaoh.

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It was a hero in Britain's defence against France during the Napoleonic Wars, but it caught the nation's attention in 1838 when it was dismantled and its parts sold off. Turner's painting depicts ...

(adoc-photos/Corbis) Napoleon completes the two-year artillery program at the École ... Gianni Dagli Orti / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY As combat at Waterloo ground on, “one saw on ...

France is the world’s second largest arms exporter after the US, and since the Russian invasion of Ukraine it has been ...

The young student’s name was Louis Braille, and though his name would forever be linked to the tactile writing system for the ...