Western Iran, bronze statue, pre-Achaemenid art, 500-1000 BCE. © 2016 Smithsonian Institution via asia.si.edu. ..
Cosmetic tray with sphinx from Egypt or Iran. OASC The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Period: […]
Aztec jaguar warrior, tlahuahuanque of the ritual sacrificial combat named sacrificio gladiatorio in spanish ..
Cypriot cornelian scarab seal with two lions at Sumerian sacred tree under a winged sun […]
Egyptian necklace counterpoise with aegis of Sakhmet. Via The Global Egyptian Museum. The original description ..
Mask and Foot Cover of “Corn Mummy”, Ptolemaic Egypt. OASC The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ..
Terracotta Figure of Isis-Aphrodite, Egyptian, Roman period, c. 2nd – 3rd century. OASC The Metropolitan ..
Wine Vessel (Jia), c. 1250-1046 BC. © The Cleveland Museum of Art. China, late Shang […]
A Chinese jade blade, Neolithic period. © Sotheby’s. The thin blade of slender oblong form, […]
Three Syrian terracotta idols circa 2nd Millenium B.C. © christies.com One with long cylindrical body, ..
Dogū (Clay Figurine). Period: Final Jōmon period (ca. 1000–300 B.C.) Culture: Japan Medium: Earthenware ..
Statuette of the demon Pazuzu with an inscription. Start of the first millennium BC. Mesopotamia, […]
Rock inscription at Xianzi Lake by Taixi River, Fujian Province. From the article Petroglyph studies ..
Pre-columbian large male axe-head figure. Carved and polished greenstone. 300 – 100 B.C. Accession ..
“Altarbild nr 1” by Hilma af Klint, Swedish mystic, 20th C. Hilma af Klint (1862 […]
Types of cometary forms, illustrations from Johannes Hevelius’ Cometographia (Danzig, 1668). Via Noah ..
A Pair of Bronze Spiral Fibulas. © phoenixancientart.com. Culture: European, Bronze Age Period: late ..
The Sun-Holder, Found somewhere in Denmark. The Sun was worshipped in the danish Bronze-age. The […]
Scan from the book “Cults of the Greek” by Lewis Richard Farnell. In this bronze […]
“The Great Day of His Wrath” by John Martin, 1851–1853. Oil on canvas, 197 cm […]
Birth of the Philosopher’s Stone An illustration from the book “The Follies of Science at […]
Haniwa ceramic from Japan. Source unknown. Wikipedia says: The Haniwa (埴輪) are hollow terracotta ..
Plate. Persian, Sasanian, A.D. 225–630 Dimensions: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.) Medium or Technique: Silver-gilt. ..
愛染明王像 Aizen Myōō. Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Period: ..
“Medusa” by Arnold Böcklin, ca. 1878. Oil on canvas, private collection. Have a look at […]
This relief appears over the internet constantly being referred as depicting Gilgamesh. Since it appears ..
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 220 × 389 cm, […]
Manydjarri Ganambarr in Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia at Harvard’s ..
“The Last Judgement” by Hans Memling, between circa 1466 and circa 1473. Distemper, oil on […]
“Circe Invidiosa” by John William Waterhouse, 1892. Oil on canvas 180.7 × 87.4 cm (71.1 ..