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Temptation & Expulsion from Paradise, Sistine Chapel
A panel from ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome. The panel shows the temptation and then expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The ceiling was created between 1508 and 1512 CE by the Italian Renaissance artist...

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Sistine Chapel Interior
The interior of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome. The ceiling was created between 1508 and 1512 CE by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) and shows the story of Genesis from the Creation to the Great Flood.

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Flood Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh
This is the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh. The cuneiform text on this tablet is startlingly similar to the Biblical story of Noah and his ark in the Book of Genesis. When George Smith, an assistant in the British Museum first read...

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God Separating the Land from the Water, Sistine Chapel
A panel from ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome. The panel shows God separating the land from the waters. The ceiling was created between 1508 and 1512 CE by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) and shows...

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The Drunkenness of Noah, Sistine Chapel
A panel from ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome. The panel shows the drunkenness of Noah. The ceiling was created between 1508 and 1512 CE by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) and shows the story of...

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Creation
A beautiful series of windows depicting the Genesis account of Creation in the church of Christ the King, Gordon Square in London.

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Islamic Depiction of Cain and Abel
Cain burying his brother Abel, illustration from an Islamic illuminated manuscript of the Stories of the Prophets, 11th century CE. Cain and Abel were sons of the first humans Adam and Eve in the biblical Book of Genesis. Cain was a farmer...

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Book of Exodus
Fragment of the book of Exodus, Text page, Walters Manuscript W.739, fol. 1r This fragment from the Book of Exodus is a bifolium presenting the text of Exodus 21:16-35a on fol. 1 and 23:5b-21a on fol. 2. The missing text in between these...

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E-sagil Tablet & Building the Tower of Babel
This tablet states the dimensions of each of the seven levels of Etemenanki, the ziggurat of Marduk at Babylon. This building is the Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis. From Babylon, Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 600-400 BCE. (The...

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Ram in a Thicket
From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC This is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the 'Great Death Pit', one of the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. The other is now in the University of Pennsylvania...