1901
Watercolour copy by Howard Carter (1874-1939) of a painted scene showing the Horus falcon from the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt, 1895. Gouache on paper. Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
1902
Marcus Schenkenberg as Icarus at McQueen’s first Givenchy couture show for spring/summer 1997.
1903
The Diakonikon-Baptistery mosaic (Mount Nebo, Jordan) with its hunting and pastoral scenes of colourful almost intact tesserae is one of the most remarkable Byzantine mosaics in Jordan. It was discovered in 1976 in the northern hall of the Moses Basilica. Image: Shutterstock
1904
Griffin mosaic from the Acropolis at Rhodes. Date: c. 1st half of 2nd century BC. Collection: Archaeological Museum of Rhodes. Photo Credit: Jebulon via Wikimedia Commons.
1905
Pendant in the shape of a ram-headed falcon (gold, lapis-lazuli, turquoise and carnelian), found on the mummy of an Apis bull in the Serapeum of Memphis at Saqqara. Date: Reign of Ramesses II. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1279-1213 BC. Now in the Louvre Museum.
1906
Bird, Roman fresco, garden from Villa Livia, Rome, 5th c. A.D, National Roman Museum, Rome.
1907
Roman copy of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, unearthed near the ruins of Sinuessa, modern-day municipality of Mondragone, Campania, Italy. Photo Credit: National Geographic, June 1981.
1908
John William Waterhouse (1849 -1917): "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May". Gather ye rosebuds while ye may is the first line from the poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick. The poem is in the genre of carpe diem, Latin for "seize the day".
1909
Apollo Playing the Lute by Briton Riviere.
1910
Stream of water under the Colosseum and tunnels.
1911
Tourist next to the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan. Photo by Edmund Melzl,1958.
1912
The lone figure of a soldier on the steps of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Greece, 1941.
1913
Detail, the Adolescent Bacchus by Caravaggio.
1914
Sarcophagus and lid with husband and wife Italic, Etruscan, Late Classical or Early Hellenistic Period, 350–300 BC., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1915
Green glazed steatite amulet in the form of a tiny, squatting frog with large eyes. Date/Period: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, c 2061–1640 BC. Height: 1 cm. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US.
1916
Nasca Vessel. Culture: Nasca. Place of origin: Perú, south coast. Date: 100 B.C. – A.D. 800. Medium: Ceramic. Collection: Fowler Museum at UCLA.
1917
Photograph of Stupa 3, Sanchi from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections taken by Deen Dayal in 1883. The Great Stupa at Sanchi is one of the oldest stone structures in India. It was originally commissioned by the emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century BC.
1918
Roman gold ring with the head of the Gorgon, dated to the 1st century AD or later. Private Collection.
1919
Venus with a shell by James Pradier, and Salvator Marchi, 1844. Meidum: patinated plaster, 23.5x15.5x16 cm. Collection: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Ville de Genève.
1920
Vase in the shape of a hedgehog, from Tomb D11 at Abydos. Date: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479-1425 BC. Collection: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
1921
Unknown tourist poses in the Strommeyer and Heymann photographic studio in Cairo (c. 1885)
1922
Anatolian Marble Two-headed Idol, Circa Late 3rd Millennium BC. Private Collection. Detailed post: instagram.com/archaeologyart
1923
Egyptian Shabtis, Archaeological Museum of Zagreb. A shabti (also known as shawabti or ushabti) is a generally mummiform figurine of about 5 - 30 centimetres found in many ancient Egyptian tombs.
1924
Details from the Prodigiorum et ostentarum chronicon by Lycosthenes, Conrad. Date: 1557. Collection: Royal Collection Trust.
1925
Ludwig Becker, Sternschnuppe (Meteroid), 1860.
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