926
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.
928
Vulture Pectoral. Date: ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Culture: New Kingdom, Egypt. Medium: Gold sheet. This Vulture pectoral, probably depicting the goddess Nekhbet, was a traditional funerary emblem. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 118.
929
The Princess Out of School by Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914). Medium: gouache and watercolour with some scratching out, 52 x 95.3 cm. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria.
930
Infographic: Olympic games in Ancient Greece. Illustration & Designer: Rianovosti - Yevgeni Ivanov.
932
Man standing in front of hieroglyphics on the Great Temple, Medinet Habu Site, Egypt. Photographer: Maison Bonfils (Beirut, Lebanon), Created / Published [between 1867 and 1899]
933
Art Nouveau Ring by Louis Zorra c. 1900 France
934
A Sea-Serpent Swallows The Royal Fleet, Arts of the Book: Illustrated Texts, Miniatures, India, Mughal, circa 1670 AD, Materials and technique: Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Source: The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada.
935
Phrygian tomb (eighth to the sixth century BC), known locally as Yılantaş or the Snakes' Rock., Phrygian Valley, Turkey.
Photographer: Guillaume Berggren. Photo date: 1870. Colorized by me.
936
8/29/1957 - Trondheim, Norway: Carved during the bronze age, these newly-discovered carvings are examined by a worker near the Norweigan city of Trondheim. Photo Credit: Getty Images.
937
“Athéna” - Art by Erté. (1892-1990). Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
938
Descent of Christ into Limbo, by Bartolomé Bermejo, c. 1475. Collection: Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya.
939
The Oldest Map of Stars: Nebra Sky Disc archaeostore.com/blog/the-oldes…
940
Detailed image of types of the ancient Greek vessels. Image/Work via planetearthx2.
941
Consulting the Oracle at Delphi - painting by Knapp , 1923.
942
Illustration: A bustling marketplace in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
Credit: National Geographic.
943
Orion rising above "El Castillo" (Spanish for "castle"), also known as the Temple of Kukulkan. El castillo was built by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries. Photographer: © Stéphane Guisard
944
Owls. Detail from the "On the art of hunting with birds" (French version), Bruges ca. 1485-1490. Collection: Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 170, fol. 106r.
945
Hellenistic Gold Wreaths.
In Ancient Greece, wreath crowns were given as prizes to the victors of athletic and artistic competitions. The wreaths were often made from the branches of Laurel, Myrtle, Oak, and Olive trees.
946
Stonehenge is perhaps the world's most famous prehistoric monument. It was built in several stages: the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period about 2500 BC.
947
"Sicily", 1961. Photographer: Bruce Davidson.
The Temple of Concordia (Italian: Tempio della Concordia) is an ancient Greek temple in the Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples) in Agrigento (Greek: Akragas) on the south coast of Sicily, Italy.
948
Crowd of the damned. Pamplona Bible, Navarre, c. 1197 AD. Source: Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 108, fol. 254r.
949
Aztec/Mixtec sacrificial knife depicting a crouching eagle warrior holding a flint blade, bound together with agave fiber and resin. Date: circa 1400 - 1521.Now on display at the British Museum.
950
Cleopatra testing poison on death row prisoners (Detail), 1887. By Alexandre Cabanel.
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