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The sculpture of the ancient Celts between 700 BCE and 400 CE is nothing if not varied as artists across Europe developed their own ideas and borrowed what interested them from neighbouring cultures. Early Celtic stone and wood sculptures...

The Mórrigan (also Morrighan, Môr-Riogain or Morrigu), usually referred to with the definite article, was a great warrior-queen goddess in Irish-Celtic mythology. She was most associated with inciting war, then stirring up the fury and frenzy...

Attic amphora depicting the departure of a warrior, found at Vulci, attributed to the Dikaios Painter, 510-500 BCE. In the centre, a young warrior stands facing a bearded archer in Phrygian costume, who looks down as if in grief. At his...

Attila the Hun (r. 434-453 CE) was the leader of the ancient nomadic people known as the Huns and ruler of the Hunnic Empire, which he established. His name means "Little Father" and, according to some historians, may not have been his birth...

A terracotta figurine depicting a cavalry warrior of the Mali Empire (1240-1645 CE). 13th-15th century CE. (National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.)

The Warrior of Vachères (or Le Guerrier de Vachères) is a Gallo-Roman statue of a soldier. The soldier wears a Celtic torc necklace, and has a long oval shield, making his identity as a Roman Gaul unmistakeable. He also wears a chainmail...

A recreation of a mounted warrior of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE). (The Art Science Museum, Singapore)

A scene depicting warriors fighting over a corpse, probably a scene from the Iliad and the fallen warrior is Patrokles. Attic black-figure kalyx krater, c. 530 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

The bronze statuette from Dodona depicting a hoplite warrior.

An ancient Roman mosaic from the 4th century CE depicting an Amazon warrior in mounted combat against a Greek rider. The Greek is seizing the Phrygian cap of the Amazon. Cropped detail of a mosaic from Daphne, a suburb of Antioch on the Orontes...