Terracotta painted figurine from Egypt’s Predynastic Period. Item #07.447.505 at the Brooklyn Museum. ..
The cairns at Loughcrew are aligned to the rising sun at the equinoxes. The sun […]
Amulet in the form of a head of an elephant. © The Metropolitan Museum of […]
Eye Figurines from Tell Brak, Syria, 4th millennium BC. Via eternalsymbols.com. These figurines were ..
Sumerian Large Terracotta Eye Idol. 4th Millennium BC. H. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm.). Ex […]
Gerzeh palette (‘Hathor’, Cow-head palette). © Alain Guilleux. Cairo Mus. 34173 Gerzeh tomb ..
Anthropomorph Possibly Pre-iconic Image of a God. Gangetic Plain, Uttar Pradesh, India II-III Millennium ..
Petroglyph at Pedra del Bruixot de mas Polità, Port de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain. © […]
The valley’s rice paddies are scattered with mysterious ancient megaliths. Locals call this one “Palindo”—”the ..
Jade figurine of the type “horned demon” scanned from a book of the series “China […]
A Carved Stone Ball from Glaschul Hill in Towie, Aberdeenshire. Sir John Evans, The Ancient […]
Petroglyph at stone 3, Pedres de la Creu Blanca, Catalonia, Spain. © Vicenç Armangué i […]
Mesopotamian Stone Votive Figure, 3rd millennium BCE. Via tomkinscollection.org (dead link). Votive statues ..
Earthenware flame pot. Japan, Jōmon period, c. 3000 BC. Nagaoka Municipal Science Museum, Niigata Prefecture, ..
Carved Stones in Gavrinis Dolmen passage grave, France. CC BY-ND by D. Truffaut via Flickr. […]
Malta, Tarxien temples, altar. This is a copy, the original is in the National Museum […]
Anatolian Idol in the Form of a Stylized Female Figure. 3500 BC – 2500 BC. […]
A Syrian alabaster eye idol from Tell Brak, circa late 4th-early 3rd millennium B.C. With […]
Administrative tablet of clay, Mesopotamian/Sumerian, 3100-2900 BC. The earliest tablets with written ..
Najran Abar Hima site, Saudi Arabia. © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com. All rights reserved. Original ..
Jiroft Vase with Tree, Iran 3rd Millennium B.C. Via irangazette.com. It does not appear in […]
Plate III. “Gameboards”: a : eagle (l 41 cm); b: eagle (l 35 cm); c: […]
A Chinese jade blade, Neolithic period. © Sotheby’s. The thin blade of slender oblong form, […]