1551
Decorated human skulls dated to 9,500 years ago. Neolithic site of Tell Aswad, near Damascus. Image via Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée.
1552
Judaculla rock petroglyphs located deep in the mountains of Jackson County, just outside Sylva, North Carolina. Photographer: Larry W. Mull.
1553
List of Roman Emperors. Profiles probably taken from coins
1554
Moon Rising Behind Pines by Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869), N/D Oil on board, 10.2 x 8 cm.
1555
Briton Rivière - A Roman Holiday (1881).
1556
Camazotz, meaning Death in Bat K'iche’ language, a Lord in Xibalbá, Mesoamerica, associated with death, night and sacrifice ~ ca.1000 B.C. until the advent of the Classic Period ca. 250 AD.
1557
Spider, Date- 6th–7th century. Location: Peru. Culture: Moche (Loma Negra). Medium: Gilded copper, shell. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1558
A gold wreath in the shape of an ivy plant discovered at a 2,400-year-old tomb complex in Cyprus, dating to the 5th-4th centuries BC. (Photo Credit: Kadir Kaba)
1559
Portrait of a Woman (Detail) by Nicolas de Largillière, 1696. Collection: The Met.
1560
Olmec head, Mexico, photo date unknown.
1561
King Pentheus of Thebes is torn apart by maenads, led by his mother Agave. Fresco from the north wall of the triclinium in the Casa dei Vettii, Pompeii.
1562
Tipu’s Tiger, an automaton that was made for Tipu Sultan of Mysore in India during the 1700s. The 68-inch long device shows a tiger killing a British redcoat, representing the British East India Company, the enemy of the Sultan.
1563
Octopus Frontlet,. Date: c. 300–600. Culture: Moche. Medium: Gold, chrysocolla, shells. Dimensions: H: 27.9 x W: 43.2 x D: 4.4 cm. Now on display at the Museo de la Nación, Lima, Peru.
1564
Stone heads (Moai) on Easter Island , Rapa Nui, undated photo by Ramon Osuna.
1565
Wall painting depicting scene in the Nile marshes, animals in a papyrus thicket, showing a genet and a mongoose hunting among bird-filled marsh. 1550-1292 BC. Now in the Louvre Museum.
1566
Ancient Egyptian bronze daggers with electrum blades and ivory handles. Now in the Louvre, Paris.
1567
US Army captain James Rorimer stands with his men on the steps of Neuschwanstein Castle with recovered artwork, 1945. The castle functioned as a depot for Nazi plunder during the war.
1569
Ruin Landscape by Ferdinand Knab (1834–1902). Private collection.
1570
Ships of the World in 1460 (Fra Mauro Map): Chinese Junks, Arabian Ships, Indian Ships, and European Ships.
1571
Bat from the Art of Falconry (De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus), a Latin ornithology book originally published in 1241 by Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor from 1196-1250.
1572
Statuette of a Woman: “The Stargazer”. c. 3000 BC Early Bronze Age. Place of origin: Western Anatolia(?). Dimensions: 17.2 x 6.5 x 6.3 cm. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
1573
Next to church, Slovakia 1940. Photographer: Štefan Tamáš.
1574
Francesco Rosselli - Map of Florence. N.d., 15th century.
1575
Wooden mask. Culture: Mixtec or Aztec. Period: Postclassic period Date: A.D. 1100–1521. Place of origin: Central or Southern Highlands, Mexico. Medium: Wood with turquoise, black stone, shell, and mother of pearl. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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