1501
Cast enamel bat necklace, 1900s, France. Private Collection.
1503
Depiction of wrestling scenes - Detail of a wall painting depicting wrestling techniques, from BH15, the Tomb of Baqet III, official and Great Chief of the Oryx nome (the 16th nome of Upper Egypt) during the 11th Dynasty, 21st century BC. Beni Hasan necropolis.
1504
Frieze of the Small Horses, Axial Gallery, Lascaux cave. c. 15.500 BC. Lascaux is often called the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory because of its richness of pictures. There are more than 600 paintings –mostly of animals -on the cave's interior walls in impressive compositions.
1505
A bee decorates the engraved bezel of this Greek gold ring. On either side of the insect, the Greek letters epsilon and phi signal an abbreviated form of the name of the ancient Greek city of Ephesos. Date: 3rd century B.C. Now on display at the Getty Museum.
1506
Detail, Outermost guilded coffin of King Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 B.C, 18th dynasty, New Kingdom (photographs by Harry Burton ca. 1922)
1507
Detail, Baths of the Forum, Pompeii, 1895 survey expedition photographs. Photo Credit: Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection.
1508
Temple of Isis, photo dating 1900-20, in Philae Island, Egypt.
1509
Model Vase Inscribed for Nebseny, First Prophet of Onuris. Period: New Kingdom Dynasty: Dynasty 18 Reign: Thutmose IV, probably Date: ca. 1400–1390 B.C. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 117.
1511
Tetradrachm of Kingdom of Egypt with head of deified Alexander the Great, struck under Ptolemy I. Culture: Greek. Period: Early Hellenistic Period. Date: 315/4–300 B.C. Mint: Alexandria, Egypt (Kingdom). Medium: Silver.
1512
Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy (1858-1918) - Night on the Southern Shore.
1513
Egyptian Faience Hippo, Late Period, c. 6th-4th Century BC. Diamter: 7 in (18 cm) long. Private Collection.
1514
The rulers of Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates, left behind several breathtakingly beautiful funerary sanctuaries. Mount Nemrut, the most impressive of all the tomb sites, is that of Antiochos I of Commagene (69-34 BC). Modern-day Adiyaman-Turkey
1515
Roman Mosaic with Octopus - This mosaic with an octopus is made of limestone and dates from the 2nd-3rd century AD. It is from Villaquejida (León), Spain. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid).
1517
Statuette of the Goddess Taweret. Period: Ptolemaic Period. Date: 332–30 B.C. Place of origin: Northern Upper Egypt, Qena area. Medium: Glassy faience. Collection: The Met, NY.
1518
Scaraboid of hedgehog. Culture: Egyptian. Date: Late Period, Dynasty 25–30, c. 760–332 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
1519
Michelangelo Maestri - A bacchanale (detail).
1520
Mayan Calendar Haab', Cozumel, Mexico. The Haab’ was the second mayan calendar, and, it was a solar calendar. It is the one most similar to the Christian calendar. While the calendar contains 365 days, it also had 18 months and that included 20 days.
1521
John Singer Sargent - Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1921.
1522
Burrup Peninsula (Murujuga, Australia) is famous for its petroglyphs. It is thought that there are more than one million petroglyphs on the peninsula. You can take a journey in the history of humankind which dates about 47.000 years ago.
1523
The great Shigir Idol (Yekaterinburg, Russia) is an archaeological Ural treasure that humankind has yet to solve. It is approximately 12.500 years, and it is the oldest monumental wooden sculpture in the world.
1524
A Tibetan skeleton dancer, 1925. Photo by Joseph F. Rock. The photo originally appeared in the November 1928 issue of National Geographic. The Skeleton Dance is a sacred Tibetan dance ritual found in Himalayan Buddhist lineages.
1525
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, late 19th century or early 20th century.
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