2076
Mummiform Falcon with Inscribed Menat. Place of origin: Egypt Period: Third Intermediate Period (1070 - 712 B.C.) Medium: Wood, gesso and polychrome paint. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2077
Detail, Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova. (1804–6) Photo via xshayarsha/blog.
2078
A portrait of St Anne (detail), the mother of the Virgin Mary. Date: c. 8th century. Place of discovery: Faras Cathedral, Lower Nubia, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan. Medium: tempera on plaster. Now on display at the National Museum in Warsaw.
2079
Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.
2080
Andromeda by Auguste Rodin. Modeled in 1885; carved 1886. Medium: marble, 29.8x29.2x22.9 cm. Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
2081
A blue and white frog-form water dropper, Vietnam, circa 15th century AD. Private Collection.
2082
Gold and amethyst ring. Geography: Southeast Asia. Date: 9th-13th century AD. Collection & Credit: Sotheby's.
2083
Ruins of an ancient maya pyramid (La Danta) deep in the Guatamalan jungle. Trees growing on the structure. Shot in El Mirador national park in Northern Guatemala.. Photographer: Raphael Rivest via Shutterstock.
2084
The Pergamon Altar is a monumental construction built during the reign of King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor. (Photo Credit: Thomas Struth)
2085
Bust of a woman, possibly the younger Antonia. Long identified as the nymph Clytie. Date: c.40-50 AD. Findspot: Naples. Medium: marble. Collection: The British Museum.
2086
Tetradrachm of Seleucus I Nikator, Susa, minted after 301 BC.
2087
Limestone statuette of the Goddess Bastet in Her form of sacred cat with a small cat seated in the front; 663-525 BC, now in a private collection.
2088
The Olympian Gods and Goddesses (+ Hades), by Frédéric Vignaux (b.1972). Credit & Source: French Comic Series La Sagesse des Mythes.
2089
Tournament Scenes by Azzo di Masetto, 1289. Medium: fresco. Collection: Fondazione Musei Senesi.
2090
A mosaic from a villa's entry way depicting sandals and the words Bene Lava (Wishing you a good bath!), from Timgad (ancient Thamugadi), Algeria. Roman Civilization, 1st-2nd Century. Photographer: Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79
2091
An octopus battles a crayfish. Detail from a mosaic of sea creatures in the House of the Dancing Faun, Pompeii. Date: circa 100 BC. Collection: National Archaeological Museum, inv. nr. 120177, Naples.
2092
Helios in his chariot, a relief sculpture excavated at Troy in 1872. Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Helios in ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god and personification of the Sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky.
2093
Jephthah's Vow: The Marty by Edwin Long (1829–1891). Collection: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.
2094
Carved animal head from a Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tonsberg in Vestfold county, Norway ~ ca.800 AD. Collection: Museum of Cultural History.
2095
Signet ring. Period: Meroitic. Date: A.D. 2nd-3rd century. Place of origin: Gammai, Nubia (Sudan). Medium: Electrum.
2096
Armour (Chihal'ta Hazar Masha). Place of origin: Northwestern India, Rajasthan Date: 18th - 19th centuries Medium: Fabric, steel, copper. Collection: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
2097
Ring with a bust of Jupiter, ca. 50 BC. - AD. 20. Collection: State Museums, Germany, Berlin, Old Museum.
2098
Stone carving from temple at Palenque, Mexico, circa 1895.
2099
The Bronze Runners/The Two Runners found at the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy, in 1754. Date: c 1st century BC Roman copy of the Greek original that dated to the 4th century BC. Now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.
2100
Ancient Doorway, Medina Habu (Medinet Habu), Luxor, Egypt. Photo: Stock Image / Shutterstock.
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