1626
Persepolis Bull, 1949. Photographer: © Horst P. Horst.– Credit & Collection: Galerie Bernheimer, Switzerland.
1627
Pandora’s Box by Charles Edward Perugini (19th Century)
1628
Reclining Pan Statue, 1535 attributed to Francesco da Sangallo (Italian, 1494-1576). Collection: The Saint Louis Art Museum, Louis, Missouri.
1629
Detail from the Songbook of Zeghere van Male (1542 AD.) – This outstanding manuscript from Bruges contains local and international 500 years old songs and motets. Collection: Bibliothèque Universitaire de Cambrai.
1630
A gilded bronze bracelet terminating in snake heads. Culture: Western Greek. Made in Italy, found at Cumae. Date: c.200-100 BC. Diameter: c.6.2 cm. Collection: British Museum.
1632
Detail: Devils bite and scratch the damned, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur. France, c. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, f. 100r
1633
Fish and ducks, Roman mosaic from Pompeii, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.
1634
Sinners in the hell. Detail from the Dirk Bouts (Haarlem, ca.1410): Last Judgement, Hell Panel. Date: ca.1450. Collection: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France.
1635
Hattusa. This ancient site once served as the capital of the Great Hittite Empire, one of the superpowers of the ancient world. Near Bogazkale, Corum, Turkey.
1636
Memento mori watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch. Place of origin: Blois, France, ca. 1780-1850. Collection: Science Museum Group, UK.
1637
Crown of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, known as the Crown of the Andes. Date: ca. 1660 (diadem) and ca. 1770 (arches). Geography: Made in Colombia. Culture: Colombian; Popayán. Medium: Gold, repoussé and chased; emeralds. Collection: The Met.
1638
9,000 year-old-flutes found in China, made of bones. They are still playable.
1639
Female Figurine. Place of finding: Southern Turkmenia, Site of Altyn-Depe. Material: clay. Technique: modelling. Period: Bronze Age. Date: 2nd Millennium BC. Now on display at the Hermitage Museum.
1640
Ceramic vessels. Place of Origin: Cahokia, Illinois, United States. Date: c. 11th-13th centuries.
1641
Drowned by Josef Manes, 1867, oil on canvas.
1642
Jean-Léon Gérôme - Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant (1859)
1643
Ptolemaic mosaic depicting a dog and a knocked-over gold vessel, Alexandria, Egypt. Period - Date: from Hellenistic Egypt, dated between 200 - 150 BC. Now located in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, Egypt.
1644
Atlantean figures from Temple of Jaguars, Chichén Itzá, circa 1895. Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library.
1645
Bead Bracelet of Queen Ahhotep I. Material: Gold, Semi-precious stones. Second Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, ca. 1560-1530 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. It is decorated with hieroglyphs of polished gold set in lapis lazuli.
1646
Fig. 112. “Principal types of pottery in Ancient Egypt.” The Encyclopaedia Britannica. v.9. 1922.
1647
Guennol Lioness. A Magnesite or Crystalline Limestone Figure of a Lioness. Culture: Elam circa 3000-2800 B.C. Height: 3 1/4 in. 8.26 cm. Private Collection..
1648
The Akrotiri Boxer Fresco, discovered in 1967, is one of the Wall Paintings of Thera and a leading example of Minoan painting. It is a fresco depicting two young boys wearing boxing gloves and belts and dates back to the Bronze Age, 1700 BC.
1649
The Temple of Aesculapius located in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, in Rome, was built in the ionic style between 1785 and 1792 by Antonio Asprucci and his son Mario Asprucci, with help from Cristoforo Unterperger.
1650
Stucco Relief Panel from a 1st century AD Roman Villa depicting a woman with a griffin. Photo Credit: Mary Harsch at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
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