Sources · Creators · Licences
Attribution for the photographs, artworks and illustrations used throughout this website.
Wikimedia Commons
The credits below link to each original Wikimedia Commons file page, where full descriptions, revision histories and licence terms are available. “Public domain” means the work is not restricted by copyright in the way a licensed work is.
Please note: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons do not endorse or sponsor this website. Images may be cropped, resized, colour-treated or displayed beneath an overlay.
01 · Wikipedia / Wikimedia
Twenty unique works appear in the current site files. Repeated uses are credited once.
Photograph by Roberto Ferrari.
Used: Home · Architecture
Illustration by Ssolbergj.
Used: Home · Military
Ancient mosaic; photographer/author unknown.
Used: Home · Society
Painting by Cesare Maccari.
Used: Home · Politics; Key Figures hero
Photograph by Ángel M. Felicísimo.
Used: Home and Key Figures
Photograph by Justin Benttinen.
Used: Home and Key Figures
Ancient artist unknown; photograph by Bibi Saint-Pol.
Used: Home · Key figures
Photograph by Wolfgang Moroder.
Used: The Story · Hero
Photograph by Nicholas Hartmann.
Used: Timeline · Hero
Photograph by FeaturedPics.
Used: Timeline and Empire
Photograph by Thomas Wolf.
Used: Roman World · Hero
Photograph by Heparina1985.
Used: Roman World · Hispania
Photograph by Frédéric Rodrigo.
Used: Roman World · Gallia
Photograph by Alexandre Moreau.
Used: Roman World · Africa
Artwork by Thomas Allom.
Used: Roman World · Graecia & Asia
Photograph by Gilad Topaz.
Used: Roman World · Syria & Judaea
Photograph by Jfabrix101.
Used: Roman World · City feature
Photograph/crop by Maclemo.
Used: Key Figures · Legacy layout
Photograph by José Luiz.
Used: Key Figures · Legacy layout
Sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume.
Used: Key Figures · Legacy layout
02 · Other image sources
These images are part of the website but are not from Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons.
Remote Unsplash photographs are used on the home hero, Roman World, Key Figures, Warfare and Empire pages, as well as in the archived static HTML layouts.
nero.jpg, hadrians-wall.jpg and trevi-fountain.jpg. Creator/source data was not embedded in the supplied files and should be added when known.
civil-war.png, combat.png, close-combat.png and rome-defeat.png. These are locally supplied digital artworks; no Wikimedia source is claimed.
The Key Figures archive can load portrait URLs from the site database. Those records are maintained separately; the hard-coded Julius Caesar fallback is credited above.
Corrections
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Image inventory last reviewed 16 August 2026.
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