The debate over who owns ancient artifacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across Europe and America, and the spotlight has fallen on the most visited piece in the British Museum: The Rosetta stone. The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics after it was taken from Egypt by forces of the British empire in 1801. Now, as Britain's largest museum marks the 200-year anniversary of the decipherment of hieroglyphics, thousands of Egyptians are demanding the stone’s return. #history

1951 Bellezza Italiana | Italian beauty

Titanic's crew, nine days before the beginning of the voyage. Of the nine men in this picture, only four survived. April 1, 1912.

A group of 🇵🇭 Filipino men point to a well in which women and children were thrown, then crushed with rocks, during a massacre committed by Japanese occupation forces. Between October 1944 and May 1945, the 🇯🇵 Japanese slaughtered nearly 25,000 civilians in the Batangas Province #history

Ethnicities of the Achaemenid Army, on the tomb of Darius I.

Serbia | 1999

The great depression 1929 #history https://files.catbox.moe/p1sjk5.jpg

Western Front 1917 #history Traumatic photograph “Looking out from the entrance of a captured Pill-Box on to the shell ravaged battlefield.” (Multiple negative composite) by Frank Hurley https://files.catbox.moe/jii6xp.jpg

The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad May 10, 1869, is recognized as one of our country’s biggest achievements and one of mankind’s biggest accomplishments. It’s been compared to the Apollo 11 moon landing in terms of the vision, dedication, innovation and collaboration needed to connect the country with a ribbon of rail.

Union and Confederacy Civil-War-veterans

General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark struck by its own auxiliary fuel tank during trials in the 1960s

The Anunaki were considered to be fierce Gods and powerful allies of earth thousands of years ago when they visited our planet. They came here in order to mine gold because their planet was dying. The ozone layer was deteriorating and the only way to save the planet was to patch it with gold. ⚱ They made mankind to do the hard labor of taking it out of the ground for them. Once their Quota was full, they left but promised to return one day and teach us their ways, or so the ancient origins story says. https://res.cloudinary.com/goldenballs/image/upload/v1668844795/History/%E2%84%9620.jpg

Nuclear weapons test Bikini Atol 1946

Soldiers unload from a CH-47A Chinook to conduct a helicopter combat assault and a one day search and destroy mission Quang Ngai Province | 26 October 1967

#vintagemovie Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). “Marilyn was very shy and very sweet and far more intelligent than people gave her credit for,” Jane Russell said about her co-star.

Jack the Ripper, Canonical five https://teletype.in/@moods/6wwle5vJ6G2

Mary Jane Kelly, also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, "Fair Emma", "Ginger" and "Black Mary", is widely believed to be the final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated several women in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888. She was about 25 years old, and living in poverty at the time of her death. Reports of the time estimated her height at 5 feet and 7 inches. Her hair colour is somewhat uncertain as her various nicknames imply.

Ancient Rome Roman chariot race (detail)

Dendera Temple complex In ancient times, Dendera was associated with healing Patients who traveled there for cures were housed in special buildings where they could rest, sleep, and commune with the gods in their dreams

Career of actor James Dean was tragically cut short when actor was involved in a car accident on September 30. 1955