2001
The statue of Goddess Athena is highlighted by the moon, Athens. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Associated Press.
2002
Salinar Nose ornaments from the little-known Salinar culture, which flourished in the coastal river valleys of northern Peru from around 200 B.C.–300 A.D., are among the earliest body adornments discovered in the region. Collection: The Met, NYC.
2003
Scythian Gold Sphinx Bracelet. Date: 400-350 BC. With sphinx protomes, stamped, filigreed and granulated. Found during excavations in 1830 in the Kul Oba Barrow located near Kerch, Crimea. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
2004
Necklace with vulture pendant, found in Tutankhamun’s mummy suspended from his neck, representation of the vulture-goddess of Upper Egypt, Nekhbet; hieroglyphic sign for ‘eternity’ (shen) in the talons, gold encrusted with lapis lazuli and carnelian. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
2005
Roman mosaic with marine animals, Santiponce (Italica), Spain.
2006
Portrait Bust of a Woman (detail), Roman, Antonine Period, 140-150 AD. Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago. Erika Dufour Photography, 2012.
2007
Reconstruction of the palace of Knossos. Illustration: Mmoyaq - Wikimedia Commons.
2008
Big Navajo, c.1879. Photographer: John Karl Hillers (1843–1925). From the online collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
2009
Detail from the Hamonshu, a Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs, 1919. Designs produced by the Japanese artist Mori Yuzan.
2010
Sculpture of an eagle, unearthed in Mexico City, 1985. (Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia)
2011
Snailstag. Detail from ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506 BL, Add 18852, fols. 305r and 305v.
2012
Humbaba demon grinning mask. Date: 2000 B.C.-1000 B.C. Place of origin: Iraq, Diqdiqqah (Ur) Medium: Fired clay. Collection: British Museum.
2013
Cosmetic dish in the shape of a dog. Date: New Kingdom, Egypt, ca. 1550–1295 B.C. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 117, NYC.
2014
Pegasus/Bucephalus. Detail from the Armenian version of the Alexander Romance, 1544. Copied and illustrated at Sulu Manastir in Constantinople by Zakʿariay. Collection: Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Armenian MS 3, fol. 42v.
2015
Statuette of Nemesis in Form of Female Griffin with Wings. Date: A.D. 2nd century. Period: Roman Period. Medium: Faience, glazed. Collection: Brooklyn Museum.
2016
Egyptian Ring. Decorated with flowers & baguettes. Medium: Gold, lapis, turquoise & carnelian. Period: New Kingdom. Collection & Photograph: Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Christian Decamps.
2017
Bronze figure of a seated cat, From Saqqara, Egypt, Late Period, after 600 BC. Collection: The British Museum.
2018
Roman 1st Century AD gold ring in the form of a snake, formerly with inset stones. Collection: V&A Museum.
2019
Aphrodite Anadyomene. Culture: Greek, Hellenistic Period. Date: 3rd-1st century BC. Credit: Axel Vervoordt from TEFAF Maastricht 2011.
2020
Mosaics with Athletes. Collection: Vatican, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Profane Museum. Date: First half of the 4th cent. AD.
2021
Perfume case, heart-shaped and engraved with foliate and faunal designs, with open-mark crown as handle. Culture: Dutch. Date: 18th century. Medium: Silver, hinged and gilded. Photo © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum.
2022
The Temple of Apollo in old Corinth, Greece, circa 1955, courtesy of the Library of Congress.
2023
Mask depicting Yamantaka, painted resin and textile in form of blue bull’s head with two horns and five skull ornaments, part of a Cham Dance costume worn by Tibetan Buddhist monks. Place of origin: Tibet. Date: 19th century AD. Collection: National Museums Scotland, UK.
2024
The Canopus, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, near Rome, Italy. The famed Canopus is a pool representing a branch of the Nile, set in the center of a narrow artificial valley adjacent to the West Terrace.
2025
A Medieval Doodle. Detail from the Missal for the use of Beauvais, c. 12th century AD. Collection & Credit : Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, MS 95.
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