1451
List of Roman Emperors. Profiles probably taken from coins
1452
Judaculla rock petroglyphs located deep in the mountains of Jackson County, just outside Sylva, North Carolina. Photographer: Larry W. Mull.
1453
Decorated human skulls dated to 9,500 years ago. Neolithic site of Tell Aswad, near Damascus. Image via Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée.
1454
Cruciform (Cross) Tomb at Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Period/Culture : Zapotec. Photograph Date: c. 1920s (?). The name Mitla is derived from the Nahuatl name Mictlán, meaning the "place of the dead" or "underworld." Its Zapotec name is Lyobaa, which means “place of rest.”
1455
Stream of water under the Colosseum and tunnels.
1456
Plaque of a man and woman on bed engaged in sexual intercourse. Place of origin: Bismaya, Iraq. Period: Isin-Larsa, Old Babylonian. Collection: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
1457
Greek theatre Taormina with the smoke eruption of Mount Etna on May 18, 1886.
1458
Kampa Dzong, Tibet. Photo by John C. White, 1904. Kampa Dzong, whose name is also spelt as Khampa, Kamba and Gamba, is a Tibetan town north of Sikkim. It is the headequarters Kamba County. It has a historic hill-top fort.
1459
Front elevation of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, by David Roberts (1838)
1460
Gobekli Tepe - Pillar with a reptile sculpture, Southeastern Anatolia Region, modern-day Urfa, Turkey. circa 9000 BC.
1462
‘Conception of Merlin’. Detail from Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, Inc. 1286. Lancelot en prose. 15th century.
1463
Sacra di San Michele X-XI century, Piedmont (northwestern Italy) It is situated on the south side of the Val di Susa. Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” was inspired by this monumental abbey.
1464
The Medea krater. Side A: Medea departing in a chariot. Place of Origin: Lucania, Italy. Date: ca. 400 BC. Attributed to the Policoro Painter. Now on display at the Cleveland, Museum of Art.
1465
Quartz sandstone sculptures from Lepenski Vir. Date: c. 6.000. These statues are thought to represent the river gods or the residents’ ancestors. Their size is 16-60 cm, and they represent human heads with protruding eyes and lips or complete figures with a fish's body.
1466
‘Lady of Baza’, Limestone sculpture (really a cinerary urn) from Grave 155, Baza (Granada). 4th cent. BC. Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid. Photo via Alamy / Stock Image.
1467
Vintage photo of the Temple of Apollon Epicurius (= “Apollo the Helper”) at Bassae, Greece. The temple was constructed in mid-5th century BC. Photo by Dimitris Harisiadis.
1468
Ancient Greek gold and carnelian earrings with duck-shaped pendants. C. 323-30 BC. From the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1469
Adam Elsheimer - The Flight into Egypt, c. 1609, detail.
1471
Roman mosaic from V century AD, depicting war-elephant. Object was found in Huqoq, a Roman-Jewish village in ancient Galilea. It is one of the few glimpses into the appearance of the war elephants of antiquity. Photographer: Jim Haberman via huffpost.
1472
Cape. c. 1570-1580. Collection: Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.
1473
Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858–1938) - Three Holy Kings.
1474
Evening near the Pyramids. Photo by Ernest R. Ashton, 1898.
1475
Discovery of the frozen mummy "Juanita" near the summit of Ampato, north of Arequipa, 1995. Photo by Johan Reinhard, "Peru in Images".
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