1826
Tiles with repeat pattern. Date: circa 1580. Product place: Turkey, probably Iznik. Now on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
1827
Limestone relief of courtier Ay. Ay was pharaoh after the death of pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died prematurely. Date: c. 1360 BC. Medium: plaster on limestone with polychrome. Collection & Credit: Worcester Art Museum.
1828
Women rest at the Parthenon. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, December 1930, National Geographic.
1829
The Complete Greek Tragedies (4 Volume Set) by David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor). Hardcover, First Edition. Published 1960 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1942).
1830
A man sits in front of the Great Sphinx, photograph by Donald Mcleish.
1832
The Great Stupa at Sanchi (India) is an early Buddhist monument first constructed 2nd century BC. The Buddha’s anthropomorphic figure is not seen here, and was not used until the turn of the century.
1833
Temple of Isis, Philae - Vasily Polenov (1882)
1835
The Diadumenos, supported by two Mykonian workers, trying to shake of the numbness of a 2000 years sleep from his “perfect limbs”, uncovered in 1894, Delos, Greece.
1836
Romano-Egyptian Gold bracelet in the form of Temple , North Africa, Egypt, Lower Egypt, Alexandria (place of creation) between 4th century and 1st quarter 5th century.
Collection & Credit: medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/a…
1837
An Aztec Turquoise mosaic mask representing Xiuhtecuhtli, the god of fire, 1400-1521 AD. The mask is of cedar with mother-of-pearl eyes and conch shell teeth. The British Museum. Photographer: © Hans Hillewaert / CC BY-SA 4.0.
1838
Statue of Queen Arsinoe II identified with the Goddess Isis (black granite). Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Collection & Credit: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
1839
Egypt, 1958. At the tomb of Ramses II. Photo by Elliott Erwitt / Magnum.
1840
Vikings Heading for Land, Frank Dicksee, 1873.
1841
The Golden Larnax contains the remains from the burial of King Philip of Macedon and the royal golden wreath. The larnax was placed in the marble sarcophagus. It was made of 24-carat gold and weighing 11 kg.
1842
Roman equipment from Costumes of All Nations, 1882.
1843
Woman holding a bison horn, from Laussel, France, ca. 25,000-20,000 BC. Painted limestone, 1’ 6" high. Currently located at the Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France. Image via Wikimedia Commons/120.
1844
Relief in the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor, Egypt. Photograph: Stock Image / Shutterstock.
1846
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Archaic, ca. 540 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 24.97.95.
1847
A cat makes its way through the corridor of the Girdle Wall of the Temple of Horus at Behdet. (Photographer: Nina Berry)
1848
Modern statue of King Leonidas of Sparta, located in the pass at Thermopylae, Greece. Photo: Stock Image/Pixabay.
1849
Ring with a hidden compartment containing entwined locks of hair from king Carl XIV Johan of Sweden and count Magnus Brahe. Made from gold and platinum in 1845. Collection: Nordiska Museet.
1850
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq Neo-Assyrian, 883-859 BC, “The escape of enemies across a river.”
Currently located at the British Museum, London. Photo taken by Charles Tilford via Flickr.
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