“Standard” with horned hero taming goats. Bronze. Iran, Iron Age (15th – 16th century ..
Amulet in the form of a head of an elephant. © The Metropolitan Museum of […]
Monolith (Atal), Ejagham-Bakor, Nigeria. Height 149 cm. Provenance: Collection Alain Javelaud, 1978. ..
Eye idol. White alabaster statuette (3500-3300 BCE) from the Temple of the Eyes, Tell Braq […]
Sculpture,owl, 26 × 17 cm. From Algeria. © lessingimages.com. The source places it between 3rd […]
Mask Ensemble of a Kuosi Society Member. Bamileke culture Cameroon. Fabric, monkey fur, glass beads, ..
Aerial view of the “Owlman” aka “Astronaut”, a geoglyph of the Nazca Lines, which ..
Gold headdress ornament; Nasca, Peru, 400 B.C. – A.D. 600; 18.4 × 20.5 cm; Dallas […]
Left: is a cinerary urn. Right: a sitting statuette of a Quimbaya cacique (chief, leader). […]
Figure 6: Stone Stelae: 1-4. Qiemu’erqieke Phase I from the Kayinar cemetery (Kovalev 1999); 5, […]
The valley’s rice paddies are scattered with mysterious ancient megaliths. Locals call this one “Palindo”—”the ..
“The Last Judgement” by Hans Memling, between circa 1466 and circa 1473. Distemper, oil on […]
Selknam, Hain Ceremony, Tierra Del Fuego By Martin Gusinde, 1923 Body painting for the Hain […]
Funerary mask, 1000 B.C.–A.D. 100. Made in: Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Ceramic. h. 21.0 cm., w. […]
The artefacts are on the National Museum in Belgrade. The text on their website reads: […]
Body Mask (Det), mid-20th century. Asmat people, Ambisu village, New Guinea, Papua (Irian Jaya) Province, ..
Shakōki-dogū (遮光器土偶) (1000–400 BCE), “goggle-eyed type” figurine from the late ..
Petroglyphs, Ometepe island, Nicaragua. CC-BY Poutine via Wikimedia Commons. Note the similarity with ..
Bearded man. Southern Egypt, Gebelein. Ca. 3800-3500 BCE. Medium: Black shale. Current location: Musée ..
A diagram of the Tengriist World view on a shaman’s drum. Creative Commons. I have […]
Alutiiq Inuit masks from Kodiak island exhibited in Château-musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, donated by Alphonse ..
Scan from the book “Cults of the Greek” by Lewis Richard Farnell. In this bronze […]
Shield from Solomon Islands. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. See it on its […]
Fragment of a roof finial of a large clan house, a sculpture of the Kanak […]
Closeup of the carvings on the pre-Incan Gate of the Sun. CC-BY-SA Jerrye and Roy […]
Boudhanath stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal. This stupa concentrates many of the features that a huge polar […]
“She Who Watches” (“Tsagaglalal”) Native American pictograph overlooking the Columbia ..
Jewellery from Iron Age History museum Oslo Norway. CC-BY-SA saamiblog. flickr.com
Four Astarte figurines. Clay (around 1000 BCE) Iron Age I. © Erich Lessing. According to […]
Harvest Goddess Statue from Mohenjo Daro, or “Mound of the Dead” is an ancient Indus […]