Supposed twin gods in battle-axe fight from the rock carvings at Tanum (around Tanumshede), a […]
Mask and hands from the tumulus Kröll-Schmidt Kogel in Kleinklein, Austria. They were metal decorations ..
The caduceus as a symbol represents Hermes or the Roman Mercury. It is a short […]
Four Astarte figurines. Clay (around 1000 BCE) Iron Age I. © Erich Lessing. According to […]
Bearded man. Southern Egypt, Gebelein. Ca. 3800-3500 BCE. Medium: Black shale. Current location: Musée ..
Gerzeh palette (‘Hathor’, Cow-head palette). © Alain Guilleux. Cairo Mus. 34173 Gerzeh tomb ..
Boat and “sun” symbol. Madsebakke, Bornholm, Denmark. CC BY-SA by Helga Steinreich via Wikimedia ..
Terracotta statuette of woman with bird face. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Period: Late […]
Early–Middle Bronze Age three-headed figurine from Syria. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Provenance: ..
Anthropomorph Possibly Pre-iconic Image of a God. Gangetic Plain, Uttar Pradesh, India II-III Millennium ..
“Standard” with horned hero taming goats. Bronze. Iran, Iron Age (15th – 16th century ..
Bird-Headed Figure Whistle. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Date: 8th–9th century Geography: Mexico, ..
Woman. Western Iran, 1350-800 B.C. Sculpture, Ceramic. Height: 14 3/4 in. (90.81 cm) Gift of […]
Crescent, Hand and Star Anasazi petroglyph in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, otherwise known ..
Seated goddess with a child, Hittite Empire, Anatolia. Gold. OASC The Metropolitan Museum of Art. […]
Anthropomorphic Vessel Fired Clay, Vădastra, 5500-5000 BC. National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest: ..
Petroglyph at Pedra del Bruixot de mas Polità, Port de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain. © […]
“Adam and Eve Eating the Forbidden Fruit” (detail), Willem Vrelant, early 1460s. Open content ..
Another “celestial barge”, this one from the final scene of Excalibur (1981). © Orion Pictures ..
Thousand Hand Bodhisattva (Guan Yin) (千手观音). Fragment from the movie Samsara by Ron Fricke. © […]
The valley’s rice paddies are scattered with mysterious ancient megaliths. Locals call this one “Palindo”—”the ..
The artefacts are on the National Museum in Belgrade. The text on their website reads: […]
Votive figure from Altyn-Depe (the Golden Hill), Turkmenistan. © State Hermitage Museum. Clay; modelled. ..
Strong winter swells (February 2014) have washed away the sand from the lava rock along […]
Jade figurine of the type “horned demon” scanned from a book of the series “China […]
Drawings from an 1894 anthropology book of Kachina dolls (tihu-tui) representing kachinas, or spirits, ..
Nuragic bronze statuette with 4 eyes and 4 arms from the Santuario nuragico di Abini […]
Stele at the museum of the city of Tsetserleg, Mongolia. Photo J. Margail. From Magail, […]
In the Al-Hayit region in Saudi Arabia near Medina, keyhole and pendant shapes vary in […]
Early Bronze Age Stone Double-Headed Disc-Shaped Figurine and Child – PF.0310. © barakatgallery.com. ..