1527
Yazilikaya - Midas Monument (Currently located in Yazili Village, Eskisehir, Turkey)
The most important and the most spectacular structure in Yazılıkaya is called the Midas Monument.
1529
Hagia Sophia, interior to East, 1940s.
1530
Caspar van Wittel - Rome- View of the Arch of Titus 1710s, oil on canvas. Private collection.
1531
Late Hellenistic silver tetradrachm of the island of Tenedos (off the northwestern coast of Anatolia). Obverse: a janiform head of Zeus and Hera; reverse: a double axe. Ca. 100-70 BCE. Photo credit: Exekias/Wikimedia Commons.
1533
Green glazed steatite amulet in the form of a tiny, squatting frog with large eyes. Date/Period: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, c 2061–1640 BC. Height: 1 cm. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1534
Ippolito Caffi (1809 - 1866) The Pantheon by Moonlight.
1535
In 1790 workers repaving near the Cathedral in Mexico City discovered a stone eleven and one-half feet in diameter inscribed with the Aztec calendar.
1536
Savery Roelant - The Tower of Babel. 1602.
1537
Fragment of a piece of roof of a destroyed ancient building, Hierapolis ancient city, currently located in Pamukkale, Turkey. Photographer: Tkach Anastasiya via Shutterstock.
1538
Ancient Roman garnet intaglio inscribed with the head of Sirius, the Dog Star. The gem dates to the 1st century BC. Around the body, a collar inscribed with artist's signature in Greek ["Gaios epoiei"]. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
1540
Relief with a trireme. Date: Last decades of the 1st century B.C. Medium: Fine-grained marble with grey veins. Provenance: Baia, Archaeological Museum of the Phlegraean Fields. Collection: Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei.
1541
Feeder in the shape of a mouse. Culture: Greek. Date: Classical Period about 450–410 B.C. Place of Creation: Italy, Sicily. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1542
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, The End of Babylon, c. 1890.
1543
Winged Victory of Samothrace. Marble Hellenistic sculpture of Nike, discovered on the island of Samothrace. Currently located at Louvre Museum, Paris.
1544
Snail and strawberries. Detail from the book of hours, Bruges. ca. 1510-1525. Rouen, bibliothèque municipale, ms. 3028, fol. 58v.
1545
Scarabeoid Intaglio: Griffin and Astragal. Place of creation: Ionia. Place of finding: Crimea, the environs of Kerch. Date: c5th century B.C. Medium: Rock crystal, gold. Now on display at the Hermiatage Museum.
1546
Omphalion of Hagia Sophia, photo my own (2017). Omphalion, which literally means ‘’little omphalos’’ (navel of earth), is an opus sectile panel in Hagia Sophia. It was used to crown the Byzantine Emperors.
1547
Gem with the Bust of Athena / Minerva. Culture : Roman, Period : 1st – 2nd century A.D. Material : Amethyst Dimensions : Dim: 2.5 x 1.8 cm. Source: Private Collection.
1548
Book covers. 1st image: Felix Schloemp. Das unheimliche Buch. Munich: Georg Mueller, 1914. 2nd image: Les chauves-souris, Robert de Montesquiou, 1892.
1549
Jerusalem in the ancient times, illustration by Rocío Espín Piñar.
1550
Ancient brick wall fragment of famous Ishtar Gate covered by cuneiform. Currently located at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. c 604 BC - 561 BC. Image via Alamy.
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