1051
The three pyramids seen through palm grove, Egypt, Cairo. Photography: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection. Date: 1936.
1052
Wall fragment with two women. Culture: Roman. Date: A.D. 1 - 75. Medium: Fresco. Credit & Collection: Getty Museum.
1053
Caspar van Wittel - Rome- View of the Arch of Titus 1710s, oil on canvas. Private collection.
1054
“Clio’s Dream” by Coderch & Malavia. (2020). Medium: bronze and blue patina.
1055
Marduk, sun god of Babylon, with his thunderbolts pursues Anzu after Anzu stole the Tablets of Destiny. Black and white crop of full plate scan, from Austen Henry Layard’s ‘Monuments of Nineveh, Second Series’ plate 19/83, London, J. Murray, 1853.
1056
Hunnic Bull-Bowl. Period: Early Medieval, 7th-10 c. AD. Photograph by Sandstein / Wikimedia Commons. Now on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
1057
Head of a funerary couch in the form of a cheetah or lion, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt. Photo Credit: Treasures of Tutankhamun by Katherine Stoddert Gilbert.
1058
Sassanian Bronze Bust of King Shapur II. Date: Sassanian, 4th century A.D. Material: Bronze. Private Collection.
1059
Bronze statuette of the God Osiris on the seabed of the sunken city of Thonis-Herakleion; VII-II centuries BC. Photograph: © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation.
1060
Details from the Comet Book (1587). This stunning set of images come from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and now held at the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel. Commonly known as The Comet Book (or Kometenbuch in German).
1062
Upper part of a bronze caduceus, snakes twined around a staff. Literally a ‘herald.’ Carried by Hermes, messenger of the Gods. Also, Hermes’ Staff. Date: 5th C. BC. Place of origin: Greece. Medium: Bronze.
1063
Woman's Headdress, 2600 BC Iraq - Cemetery of Ur. Made from Cornealian, Gold, and Lapis Lazuli. Now on display at the British Museum.
1065
The Fall of the Tower of Babel by Cornelis Anthonisz, 1547.
1066
The cat’s tower besieged by the mice book of hours, London ca. 1320-1330. British Library, Harley 6563, fol. 72r.
1067
The abduction of Persephone.Wall painting from Aigai, Macedonia, Greece. Date: 4th c.BC.
1068
Mercury / Hermes (Detail). Wood engraving by Jonnard after William Blake Richmond, 1866. Collection & Credit: Wellcome Collection, London, UK.
1069
Odysseus und die Sirenen - Otto Greiner - 1905.
1070
An early image of the Ziggurat of Ur from the 1920’s.
1071
Ancient Mayan temples in Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Central America. (Photo Credit: Galyna Andrushko via Shutterstock)
1073
The Golden Larnax contains the remains from the burial of King Philip of Macedon and the royal golden wreath. The larnax was placed in the marble sarcophagus. It was made of 24-carat gold and weighing 11 kg.
1074
A small ivory sculpture of a polar bear found on Igloolik Island (Canadian eastern Arctic). Culture: Dorset culture. Date: Middle Dorset period, 1st-6th century AD, now on display at the Canadian Museum of History.
1075
Details from Pazyryk Rug, Pazryryk Valley, Siberia, c. 500 BC.
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