1476
Ring with engraved oval bezel with heraldic bulls. Period: Early Aegean, Helladic, Late Helladic II-III A Period, about 1600-1300 B.C. Medium: rock crystal. Now on display at the MFA Boston.
1477
Ceramic Aztec vase depicting Tlaloc, god of rain, from the Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. 15th century. Image: Stock photo.
1478
Aerial view of the Forbidden City - Beijing, China.
The Forbidden City is the palatial heart of China. Constructed in 1420, during the early Ming Dynasty, it is China's best-preserved imperial palace, and the largest ancient palatial structure in the world.
1479
Carl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808 – 1880) Mountainous landscape: ruins in a gorge, 1830, Städel Museum - Artothek, Germany.
1480
Wreath. Culture: Greek Date: 4th century B.C. Medium: Gold. Collection: Dallas Museum of Art.
1481
Anubis & Horus spotted having tea in Cairo.By J &K (Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard), as a part of the exhibition Tea with Nefertiti, 2006.
1482
Satkunda Rock Paintings, c. 5.000 years old. Located near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India. The paintings here are predominantly pictographic and depict the life of forest-dwelling tribal communities of the region. Image via Shutterstock.
1483
Sabatons are armored footwear worn as part of a complete suite of armor. This pair of authentic German gothic sabatons (Crakows-style) are from 1490. Collection & Photo Credit: Bata Shoe Museum, Ontario.
1484
Gem engraved with a grasshopper on its hind legs, playing the double flute; in front is a butterfly resting on a cippus with a conical top. Date: c. 1st-3rd Century AD. Period: Roman Imperial. Collection: British Museum.
1485
A stone slab from Göbekli Tepe (c. 10.000 - 8.000 BC), with a carving depicting a woman in a birth giving.
1486
Ring with a small flying duck, Scythian, 4th century BC. Found: Chertomlyk Tumulus. The Dnieper region, near Nikopol, Ukraine. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
1487
Jug with a handle in the form of a goat, From Tell-Basta (Bubastis). Reign of Ramesses II. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1279-1213 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
1488
Demon in Chains; Illustrated Single Page Manuscript. Date: ca. 1453. Artist: style of Muhammad Siya Qalam (Iranian). Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Collection: Cleveland Art Museum.
1489
Detail, Water Lilies by Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945). Private Collection.
1490
Breastplate. Place of origin: Italy. Date: Late A.D. 6th century AD. Medium: Steel and bone. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
1491
Chinese Qin Sword with gold openwork handle. Date: Spring and Autumn period (770–476 B.C.) Length 37.8cm, Hilt Length 12.7cm, Blade Length 24.5cm, Blade Width 4cm. Excavated from Tomb 2 at Yimen village in Baoji, Shaanxi, 1992; Baoji Municipal Archaeological Institute.
1492
Panorama of Pompeii from the city walls, 1800s.
1493
Standing Dignitary. Place of origin: Peru, South Coast. Culture: Wari. Period: Middle Horizon. Date: ca. A.D. 7th–11th century AD. Medium: Wood with shell-and-stone inlay and silver. Now on display at the Kimbell Art Museum, Texas.
1494
Shaman costume, Nanai (Goldi), C.1880s. Exhibit in the Asian collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Photo by Daderot via Wikimedia Commons.
1495
Gold Wreath of Oak Leaves and Acorns. c. 4th Century BC. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1496
Graeco-Persian chalcedony scaraboid with an intaglio of a Maltese dog, dated to about the late 5th-4th century BC. Private Collection.
1497
Didrachm with janiform head of Dioscuri. Place of origin: Mint of Rome, Italy. Date: 225-212 BC. Period: Roman Republican period. Medium: Struck silver.
1498
Minotaur and Labyrinth. Minted in: Gortyn, Crete. c. 425-360 BC. Obverse: Minotaur in a kneeling-running stance to right, its head facing Reverse: Labyrinth, in the form of a swastika, five pellets in a floral pattern at the center, four sunken squares in the corners.
1499
Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (1823-1887) Ophelia.
1500
Gustav Klimt masterpieces by Photographer Inge Prader, 2017.
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