801
Roman snake armlet. Diameter: 10 cm. weight: 295 g. Place of origin: Egypt. Roman Period, 1st century AD. Private Collection.
802
Caravaggio (1571 - 1610) Medusa (detail)
803
Pan mosaic from Pompeii. Now on display at the Archaeological museum of Naples.
804
Youth riding a rabbit - Canosan terracotta group, Apulia, Italy; ca. early 3rd century BC.
805
The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük is a 8,000-year-old Neolithic baked-clay figurine unearthed at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC. Photographer: Nevit Dilmen.
806
The Game of the Vestals, Ulpiano Checa Sanz (Spanish, 1860–1916).
807
Fragment of the colossal statue of Constantine the Great, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, Italy (1954).
808
Graf Zeppelin over the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, 1931.
809
Brooch by Theodore B. Starr, American, ca. 1900. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 706. Medium: Gold, amethyst, demantoid garnet, and enamel.
810
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.
812
Ilustration for Dante’s ‘Inferno’, dated c.1460-70.
813
Lion paws in Rock Fortress Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, AD 495. Sigiriya is an ancient palace, built-in 480 AD, located in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka.
814
A mosaic depicting Dionysus on a leopard, from the floor in the ‘House of Dionysus’ at Pella, late 4th century BC, Pella, Archaeological Museum.
815
Skull Wearing a Wreath of Flowers (c.1874) by Thomas Satterwhite Noble.
816
One of the greatest discoveries of archaeology: Bust of Nefertiti.
Bust of Nefertiti (detail) ca. 1340 B.C, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom.
817
Viking Bronze Enmeshed Dragon Brooch. Date: 10th Century AD. Credit & Collection: © TimeLine Auctions.
818
David Roberts "The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec", 1841.
819
Temple of Isis, Philae - Vasily Polenov (1882)
820
A man standing next to Stela K near the eastern border of the Great Plaza, Quirigua, Guatemala. 1894. Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala.
821
Greek Gold and Garnet Butterfly Necklace, late 4th-3rd Century BC. Private Collection.
822
Ancient brick wall fragment of famous Ishtar Gate covered by cuneiform. Currently located at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. c 604 BC - 561 BC. Image via Alamy.
824
Cosmetic box. Place of origin: Egypt, c. 600–500 B.C. Medium: Faience. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
825
Detail, Tomb of the Diver, Salerno, Italy c. 470 BC. This fresco gave the tomb its name: "a young man diving into the curving waves in the waters."
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