826
Relief of a honey bee Detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Seti I (KV17). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Seti I, ca. 1290-1279 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.
827
Hall of Columns, Temple of Karnack, Thebes, Egypt, by Antonio Beato. ca. 1860s.
828
John William Waterhouse - Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus ( 1900 )
829
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.
830
David, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Borghese Gallery, Rome.
831
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.
832
Erigone by Charles-Antoine-Joseph Loyeux (1823-1898). Oil on canvas, 1881.
833
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.
834
Detail, the Temptation of Saint Jerome by Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843-1902).
835
A Deep Sea Idyll - Herbert James Draper.
836
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.
837
A stone threshold at Hagia Sophia. People have been walking over this since 537 AD.
838
Guards protecting the city of Ur from treasure seekers and brick thieves, National Geographic, December 1966. Photographer: Dean Conger.
839
Emil Jacobs - Recumbant Venus with Cupid, 1839.
840
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.
841
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.
842
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.
843
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.
844
The ceremonial dagger is Sumerian and from the Early Dynastic III period, c.2600-2500 BC, from Ur (grave PG 580)
845
Carl Moll (1861 - 1945) Die Römische Ruine in Schönbrunn (Roman ruins in Schönbrunn), 1891.
846
A pattern based on a door-sill from the throne room of Ashurbanipal.
847
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.
848
Painted chest, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1333–1323 BC.
849
Ruins of Babylon in 1913. Babylon was excavated between 1899 and 1917 by a German team under Robert Koldewey.
850
A Mayan calendar column was found in Quirigua, Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, on August 13, 1929. (Photo Credit: JB Manas.)
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