2151
The Castillo at Chichen Itza before restoration Taken in 1890. Late Classic to Postclassic (750 to ~1250 AD). Culture: Maya. Location: Yucatan, Mexico. Photo Credit: British Museum.
2152
French archeologist Joseph Hackin exploring The Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
2153
A colossal Aztec serpent’s head made from volcanic rock. Late Postclassic (1325-1521 AD), now on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
2154
A Mayan calendar column was found in Quirigua, Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, on August 13, 1929. (Photo Credit: JB Manas.)
2155
Ruins of Babylon in 1913. Babylon was excavated between 1899 and 1917 by a German team under Robert Koldewey.
2156
Painted chest, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1333–1323 BC.
2157
Winged Isis pectoral. Culture: Nubian Period: Napatan Period, reign of Amaninatakelebte. Date: 538–519 B.C. Findspot: Sudan (Nubia), Nuri, Pyramid 10. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2158
A pattern based on a door-sill from the throne room of Ashurbanipal.
2159
Carl Moll (1861 - 1945) Die Römische Ruine in Schönbrunn (Roman ruins in Schönbrunn), 1891.
2160
The ceremonial dagger is Sumerian and from the Early Dynastic III period, c.2600-2500 BC, from Ur (grave PG 580)
2161
Photographs of Persepolis, Iran taken in 1935 on the Schmidt Expedition, and Professor Matthew Stolper and the colossal bull from Persepolis from the Achaemenid Period, 550-330 BC. Collection Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
2162
Ancient Roman marble torso, perhaps a copy of Polykleitos’s Doryphoros, dated to the 1st century AD. Greek original dates to the 5th century BC.
2163
Etruscan Bronze Turtle, 6th-5th Century BC. In mythology, the turtle is closely linked to Hermes and is his animal-attribute (Hermes made the first lyre with a turtle’s shell, see Homeric Hymn to Hermes, 24-61). Private Collection.
2164
Marble strigilated vase with snake handles. Date: 2nd half of the 2nd century A.D. Period: Roman. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2165
Emil Jacobs - Recumbant Venus with Cupid, 1839.
2166
Guards protecting the city of Ur from treasure seekers and brick thieves, National Geographic, December 1966. Photographer: Dean Conger.
2167
A stone threshold at Hagia Sophia. People have been walking over this since 537 AD.
2168
Detail, Great Tenochtitlan (La Gran Tenochtitlan), 1945 by Diego Rivera. In 1345 the Aztecs, or Mexica as they called themselves, founded the city of Tenochtitlan in the middle of Lake Texcoco.
2169
A Deep Sea Idyll - Herbert James Draper.
2170
Detail, the Temptation of Saint Jerome by Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843-1902).
2171
Coin from Eretria, Euboea, Greece, ca. 500 BC. The coin shows a bull scratching its head on one side, and an octopus on the other. Images of octopuses show up on many pieces of Greek art because of the culture’s depend.
2172
Erigone by Charles-Antoine-Joseph Loyeux (1823-1898). Oil on canvas, 1881.
2173
Detail of a mosaic depicting “A Tiger Kills two Wild Asses”. Overall dimensions: 2.4 × 1.73m. Found at the House of the Dionysian Procession in Thysdrus (El Djem, Tunisia). El Djem (Tunesia), Archaeological Museum. Credit: akg-images.
2174
David, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Borghese Gallery, Rome.
2175
Opus sectile panel: tiger attacking a calf. Coloured marbles, Roman artwork from the second quarter of the 4th century AD. From the basilica of Junius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill. Now on display at the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
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