2477
Roman mosaic picturing Theseus and the Minotaur, Rhaetia, Switzerland. Photo Credit: Alamy/Stock Image.
2478
The Questioner of the Sphinx, Elihu Vedder, 1863.
2479
The 5,400 year-old Mesopotamian 'Gebel el-Arak Knife', made with elephant ivory and flint. The engraving depicts their king as Master of Animals. Date: c. 3300 - 3200 BC. Now on display at the Sully wing, 1st floor, Louvre Museum.
2480
Silver coin: Nike driving a quadriga. Selinunte mint. c. 420 BC. Collection: Berlin State Museums, numismatic collection.
2481
Thomas Struth: "Pergamon Museum" - 1996.
2482
Bust of Agrippina the Elder. Medium: Marble. Date: First half of the 1st century AD. Collection: Istanbul, Archaeological Museum. 2010. Photo ©: Ilya Shurygin.
2483
Detail from Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”, 1486.
2484
The Antikythera mechanism (C.150-100 BC) indeed has an extremely complex structure. Due to its astrolabe-like appearance, it was thought to be a tool used for navigation in ships, but later it turned out to be a much more complex machine.
2485
Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves, c. 1275-1300. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art.
2486
Diana and Actaeon by Henryk Hector Siemiradzki (Polish, (1843 – 23 1902)
2487
Fish Pendant. Culture: Egypt, Late Dynasty 12–early Dynasty 13 (ca. 1878–1749 B.C.). Medium: Gold over a core of unknown material. Collection: National Museums Scotland.
2488
"Butt Trumpet" - Detail from the Speculum historiale by Vincent, of Beauvais,1264. Collection: Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 131, fol. 202r.
2490
A few lithographs from Désiré Charnay’s 1862 publication Cités et ruines Américaines. Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal.
2491
Achaemenid golden ornamental roundel from the reign of Artaxerxes II, featuring a characteristic Persian winged lion, 4th-5th Century BC. Now on display at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. Photo Credit: Ali Majdfar via Flickr.
2493
Fresco Fragment. Culture: Roman. Place: Italy (Place created). Date: 1st century. Medium: Fresco. Now on display at the Getty Museum.
2494
Electrum stater from the Greek polis of Cyzicus, bearing the head of a Gorgon. Artist unknown; ca. 500-450 BC. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.
2495
Spiral Bracelet in the Shape of a Snake.
Culture: Greek. Date: 3rd century B.C. Place of finding: Russia, Krasnodar Territory. Taman Peninsula, on Vasurinskaya Mountain. Material: gold. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
2496
Eclipses luminarium by Cyprian Leowitz, 1555. Collection: Bavarian state library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).
2498
2300 Year Old Scythian Chariot. Pazyryk Culture, c. 5th-4th century BC, found in the Fifth Pazyryk mound, Big Ulagan, Pazyryk valley, Gorny Altai, Russia. Made of leather and wood. Photo via Hermitage Museum.
2499
Coin of the day: Diobol (?) of Thraco-Macedonian tribe or city with goose and salamander. Greek, Late Archaic Period, 510–500 BC. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2500
Dancing people (?). Tamgaly Valley of southeastern Kazakhstan. The petroglyph dates to the early Iron Age. (ca. 1200-500 BC). Photo: By Adil / Stock Image.
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