1901
Female figurine (known as the Venus of Draguseni). Medium: Fired clay Dimenisons:, 20 cm height. Date: Cucuteni Culture -c. 6,500 years old, Neolithic Period. Found in the hills around Drăguşeni (Botosani) northeast Romania. Now on display at the Botosani County Museum.
1902
Examples for the Viking “Bros/Oseberg Style” (c. AD 780-850) Animal-head post found in the Oseberg viking ship, seen in the Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway.
1903
The Other Side, Dean Cornwell, 1918.
1904
The Rosetta stone is dated 196 BC, made in Memphis, Egypt. The stone was brought to England in 1802 during the Napoleonic Wars and has since then been on display in the British Museum. It shows three scripts with the same text. The code of the hieroglyphs cracked in 1822.
1905
James Basire, egyptian & greek script of the Rosetta Stone, 1810. Engraving. Society of Antiquaries of London. Via NYPL.
1906
Pirro Ligorio’s “Antiquae Urbis Romae Imago” (Image of the Ancient City of Rome), 1561.
1907
Construction of the Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1595. Now on display at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
1908
Ohara Koson — Owl, early 1920s. Ohara Koson, Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson, (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.
1909
The bust of Nefertiti is one of the best-known finds in the world dating back to ancient Egypt. Nefertiti was the wife of Akhenaten, the infamous pharaoh who introduced a new monotheistic religion of the sun god that supplanted the worship of all the other gods.
1910
Colossal figure of Ramesses II at his Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Lower Nubia Photographed by Francis Firth (British, 1822-1898).
1911
Neptune's seahorses. Date: 19th century. Medium: marble. Italian work, not signed. Victor Werner Collection, Belgium.
1912
A tiny Hellenistic gold statue of winged Eros holding a lyre, dated to the 1st century BC. Private Collection (?)
1913
Model of a hedgehog from Tomb 416 at Abydos (Egyptian faience). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1292 BC. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
1914
Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, detail heads of Athena and Isis (Ceiling above the grand staircase, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918).
1915
The Birth of Venus by Charles Haslewood Shannon - 1923.
1916
Heqat, the Frog Goddess. Travertine, 15.4 x 14.7 x 15.5 cm. Predynastic Period to early first dynasty, ca. 2950 BC. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
1917
Relief of a Baboon Relief depicting seated baboon in act of adoration, detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Tomb of Irynefer (TT290). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes.
1918
Minoan Bull’s Head Rhyton, ca. 1450 B. C. from the Little Palace of Knossos, Crete.
1919
Detail, Low Ham mosaic.
This Roman mosaic is the oldest object in Britain to tell a complete story. It was made for the bath complex at Low Ham Roman villa in about AD 350. The mosaic records the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas in five narrative panels.
1920
The Apocalypse of 1313. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
1921
Then and Now. Piazza Navona, 1699, Rome, Italy. Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
1922
Olmec Heads. For a period of some 250 or more years (1.200-900 B.C), the massive heads and other monuments were carved from basalt which was floated on huge rafts and then dragged from the Tuxtla Mountains.
1923
Statuette of the twin goddesses Marble, from Catalhoyuk. First half of the 6th millenium BC. Height 17.2 cm, Anatolia. Now on display at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey.
1924
Relief from Arch of Titus, Triumphal procession celebrating the crushing of the Jewish revolt in 70 AD. By Titus. Prominent among the spoils is the menorah, seven branched lamp-holder from the temple of Jerusalem. Rome, Italy.
1925
Nike, The Goddess of Victory, Ephesus, Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey (Photographer: Mithat Kara, bnmito on IG)
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