1976
Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán. Photo by Edward Weston, 1923. Gelatin silver print 7 9/16 x 9 ½ in. San Francisco Museum of Modern art, gift of Brett Weston.
1977
Head of a panther. Floor mosaic, Delos, House of the Masks, Greece. Date: ca. 120—80 BC. © Photo Credit: Archaeological Receipts Fund (Athens).
1979
Silver coin: Athena and Pegasus, Greek, Syracuse and Corinth, 4th century BC.
1980
Byzantine gold wedding seal ring, circa 500 AD. Collection & Credit: Pax Romana Auctions.
1981
An Egyptian artist’s sketch of pharaoh spearing a lion. New Kingdom, Dynasty 20, ca. 1186–1070 BC. currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, via their online collections.
1982
Small sculptures, hedgehog, head of a cat and head of a baboon, from late 18th Dynasty to Late Period. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.
1983
Standing Warrior. Period: Pre-Columbian. Culture: Maya, Jaina-style. Place of origin: Mexico, Campeche. Date: A.D. 600-900. Medium: Terracotta.Collection: Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
1984
Flood: Thinkers, writers and artists in Ancient Greece.
Greek philosophers asked questions such as : what is the world made of? In trying to answer these questions, they began to study the world and the relationships between shapes, between animals and between numbers.
1985
Achaemenid Winged Lion Rhyton, 5th-4th Century BC. Medium: Gold.
1986
Relief in the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor, Egypt. Photograph: Stock Image / Shutterstock.
1987
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. Photograph: Stock Image.
The Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel) was commissioned by King Louis IX (Saint-Louis) possibly from architect Pierre of Montreuil between 1242 and 1248 in the Palais de la Cité, then the royal residence.
1988
Heart; Love. Wood engraving, London, 1792. Credit & Collection: Michael Moons Book Shop.
1989
Arches in the underground - Colosseum, Rome, Italy.
1990
Handle of a chest: lion’s head, Roman Imperial Period ca. 200 AD. Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
1991
Descent of Christ into Limbo, by Bartolomé Bermejo, c. 1475. Collection: Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya.
1992
Gold Ivy and Fruit Wreath found in Chalkidike, Macedonia, Greece, late 4th century BC. Archaeologists have unearthed only two similar Macedonian wreaths. They claim that they were used by priests during Dionysus’ feast.
1993
This skull, excavated from a tomb in Jericho in 1958, shows clear signs of the ancient surgical process of trephination. c. 2200–2000 BC. © Wellcome Collection
1994
Baboon Applique From an Animal Mummy, possibly from Saqqara, Egypt. Ptolemaic Period. Now on display at the Brooklyn Museum.
1995
Aphrodite Anadyomene. Culture: Greek, Hellenistic Period. Date: 3rd-1st century BC. Credit: Axel Vervoordt from TEFAF Maastricht 2011.
1996
Gold Roman snake bangles found amongst the ruins of Vesuvius, Naples. Photo Credit: National Geographic, May 1984.
1997
Ishtar and Tammuz. Art by Christina Balit.
1998
Boats on the Nile, 1900.
The Nile was held up to the ancient people as the source of all life in Egypt and an integral part of the lives of the gods. The Milky Way was considered a celestial mirror of the Nile and it was believed the sun god Ra drove his ship across it.
1999
Amphora Attica, Greece. Date: 570 BC-550 BC (circa) Pottery: black-figured amphora showing the sacrifice of the Trojan princess Polyxene. Now on display at at he British Museum.
2000
Snailstag. Detail from ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506 BL, Add 18852, fols. 305r and 305v.
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