1176
The World according to Ancient Rome. Work & Credit: Yanko Tsvetkov's Atlas of Prejudice.
1177
Snailchicken. Detail from the Book of Hours, Bruges. Date: ca. 1500. Collection: Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
1178
Library of Ashurbanipal - Mesopotamia, 1500-539 BC. Now on display at the British Museum, London.
1179
Stage set for Mozart's Magic Flute (Die Sternenhalle der Königin der Nacht) by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (ca. 1815). Collection: Kupferstichkabinett Berlin .
1180
Wall fragment with two women. Culture: Roman. Date: A.D. 1 - 75. Medium: Fresco. Credit & Collection: Getty Museum.
1181
Details: Spirit of the Night, by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893).
1182
The Ghosts of Hellas, by Vasily Polenov, 1905.
1183
The Sphinx by moonlight by Walter Tyndale (English, 1855-1943). From “An Artist in Egypt”, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
1184
Assyrian relief sculpture from the North Palace at Nineveh, depicting King Ashurbanipal (r. 669-631 or 627 BC) killing a lion. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: Aiwok/Wikimedia Commons.
1185
Detail of a bronze statuette. The Goddess Bastet in Her form of sacred cat playing with her kitten. Date: c. 664-332 BC. Collection: Louvre Museum. Photographer: Rama via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
1186
Pelike (two-handled urn with flat bottom) depicting an acrobat shooting an arrow with her feet. Greece, 4th century BC. Photographer: Marcus Cyron via Wikimedia Commons.
1187
Pair of earrings with female figure. Culture: Greek. Date: late 4th century B.C. Medium: Gold. Collection: Dallas Museum of Art.
1188
Map of the Earth according to Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC). © Ekdotiki Athinon. Besides his written works, Hecataeus is also credited with improving the map of Anaximander, which he saw as a disc encircled by Oceanus.
1189
Portable vertical sundial, Rome, ca. 250 A.D. © Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford.
1190
A Road in Cairo, c.1840. Prosper Marilhat (1811-1847). Musée Condé, Chantilly.
1191
Orpheus (detail) Attributed to Hugues Jean François Paul Duqueylard (1771–1845).
1192
Men observe the giant statues of Easter Island in Polynesia, December 1922.Photograph by J. P. Ault, National Geographic.
1193
Glazed Brick with Bird Man. Culture: Assyrian Place of origin: Mesopotamia Date: ca. 900-650 B.C. Medium: Ceramic. Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts.
1194
Circlet or Diadem of an unknown Egyptian queen or a princess, electrum. H. (of stag's head) 8.5 cm. From Salhiya in the Eastern Delta. (near Avaris) Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photographer: tutincommon (Mr. John Campana).
1195
Front quarters of Great Sphinx covered by sand (late 19th/early 20th century).
1196
Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, near Rome, Italy. Covering a location of 120 hectares, it was the biggest of all the roman imperial villa complexes. The building work took more than 10 years to finish.
1197
Gold cup shaped like a grinning skull. Culture: Peru, Chancay culture, 1000-1450 AD. Collection: Museum Aan De Stroom, Belgium.
1198
Pharos of Alexandria, Egypt, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Illustration: English School (20th century).
1200
The most commonly used coin denominations and their relative sizes during Roman times.
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