1002
Mythical Beasts of the British and Irish Isles - by NeilParkinsonMakes.
1003
Decorated Weight from Ur, Early Dynastic III (c. 2600-2400 BC). Now on display at the British Museum.
1004
The Hyrcanian Golden cup. Dated first half of first millennium. Excavated at Kalardasht in Mazandaran, Iran. Collection: National Museum of Iran.
1005
The 2100-year-old clothes of the Huldremose Woman (or Huldre Fen Woman), a bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten - Jutland in Denmark. It consists of a checked woollen skirt, a checked woollen scarf and two skin capes.
1006
Smiling bat. Detail from the Bestiary/Liber de natura bestiarum, England after 1236.
Collection: British Library, Harley 3244, fol. 55v.
1007
Vesuvius Erupting by Moonlight. 18th century. Pierre Jacques Volaire. French 1729-1799. oil/canvas.
1008
Greek Gold Sphinx Earrings, 4th Century BC. Private Collection.
1009
“Doves watering” - mosaic from the House of the Doves at Pompeii.
1010
A Roman glass chalice from Emona. City museum of Ljubljana.
1012
Mummified head of a stork. Egypt, 664-332 BC. Dimensions: 40 cm long. Private Collection.
1013
Viking Bronze Enmeshed Dragon Brooch. Date: 10th Century AD. Credit & Collection: © TimeLine Auctions.
1014
Hummingbird Cup. Culture: Mixtec. Period: Postclassic. Place of origin: Zaachila, Zimatlán valley, Monte Albán. Date: c. AD. 1225. Now on display at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.
1015
One of first photos of Sphinx of Giza - Maxime du Camp, 1849.
1016
The Iliad, cover illustration by husband and wife illustrator team Leo & Diane Dillon, 1969.
1017
Gold locket with the hair of Queen Marie Antoinette. Collection: British Museum. Photo Credit: Kotomi_ on Flickr.
1018
Horace in the villa - Camillo Miola (1877). Naples, National Museum of Capodimonte.
1019
Ancient Egyptian frog ring, dated to the eighteenth to nineteenth dynasties of the New Kingdom, or c. 1543-1187 BC.
1020
Wreath of oak leaves and acorns Greek, Late Classical or Early Hellenistic Period, 4th century B.C.
1021
A collection of various rings, ca. 1295-1070 B.C.E, 19th Dynasty (Ramesside period), New Kingdom.
1022
Cat coffin with complete mummy inside. Place of origin: Saqqara, Egypt. Collection: Manchester Museum, the University of Manchester.
1023
Cruciform (Cross) Tomb at Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Period/Culture : Zapotec. Photograph Date: c. 1920s(?).
1024
One of the four colossal heads carved by Olmecs (800BC). Heads measure up to 9 feet 4 inches (2.84 m) in height and weigh several tons, which causes a great deal of speculation on how the Olmecs were able to move them - basalt quarry was found over 80 km away.
1025
Bactrian disk wrought from silver and gold (ca. 328-135 BC); excavated at Ai Khanum (Amu Darya), Takhar Province, Afghanistan.
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