976
A house plan made by Sumerians 5000 years ago. Ground plan of a residence in Umma with central courtyard, Ur III period. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
977
Archaeologists eating lunch in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923.
978
A group of frontiersmen advertising for wives, United States, Montana, 1901.
979
Firefighters battle a massive blaze in Montreal, 1889
980
Stephen Hawking married to Jane Wilde, 1965
981
Photo of Hagia Sophia by James Robertson (1857)
982
What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1955.
983
Humphrey Bogart with a few cases of Gordon's gin
985
Headdress depicting dragon and phoenixes, with blue highlights filled by kingfisher feathers. China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
986
People in San Francisco enjoy an open-air church service during the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic.
987
Crozier of the Abbess of Lys, 13th-15th century, French.
988
Russian conscript with his family before being deployed to the front, Karachev, Bryansk, Russia, 1943.
989
Borobudur temple in Central Java, Indonesia. It was built between the 8th-9th centuries CE, by the Shailendra dynasty. It is the largest Buddhist temple in the world.
Photo by chaksproject
990
Globe from the Persian Crown Jewels. Over 34kg of solid gold and more than 51,000 diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires. Made during the reign of Shah Nasseridin, 1848-96.
991
What the earliest modern humans likely looked like 160,000 years ago.
Courtesy of Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
992
Marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, c. 3rd century BC
The Met
993
Northern gate to the Bayon temple complex, with 4 giant faces. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 12th-13th century
Photo by Emilio Labrador
994
Excavations in Mezhyrich, Ukraine, revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones in 1965. These 15,000 year old dwellings, are some of the oldest shelters known to be constructed by prehistoric man.
995
Gerhard Emmoser, Celestial globe with clockwork, 1579, The MET
996
American soldier reunites with his wife at train station fittingly named"New Hope." US, 1945.
997
The 'Hindsgavl Dagger', 1900-1700 BC. This Neolithic flint dagger is an amazing example of flint knapping.
National Museum of Denmark
998
A ceramic jar filled with thousands of bronze coins unearthed at the site of a 15th-century samurai’s residence just north of Tokyo, Japan.
1000
The backside of the Great Sphinx of Giza showing its giant tail. Old Kingdom, c. 2558–2532 BC
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