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A section of the Great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe. Built in the 13-14th century CE using granite, the wall is 5.5 metres (18 ft.) thick in places and 9.7 metres (32 ft.) high.

A wall painting from Pompeii showing a procession of magistrates all wearing their purple-edged togas, the toga praetexta. (Murecine building, 1st century CE)

A detail of the facade of the stage wall of the the 1st century CE Roman theatre at Arausio (Orange, France).

Part of a stucco wall decoration from Qasr al-Bint Temple at Raqmu-Petra, Kingdom of Nabataea, 1st century CE. The Jordan Museum, Amman.

This large wall panel of vibrant glazed bricks was once placed above the entrance to a vast room (T3) next to Shalmaneser III's throne room at Fort Shalmaneser in Nimrud (in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq...

Known as siqqatu (in Akkadian), such nails are found in temples and palaces throughout the Middle East in this period. They were embedded in the walls of rooms and may have been used for wall-hangings. From Toprakkale...

This wall painting depicts a man reclining at a banquet, drinking from a horn. Said to be from near Pompeii, in modern-day Italy. Roman period, 50-79 CE. Formerly in the collection of Sir William Temple (Painting...

Slave market in Wall Street, New York City, c. 1730. Drawing published in A History of the American People (1902-1903), attributed to Harry Fenn. New York Public Library Digital Collections.

This small alabaster wall relief was part of a larger relief that represents the military campaign of the Assyrian king Ashurbanibal against the Elamite city of Hamanu. There is an Assyrian chariot with...

Detail of a large wall panel of vibrant glazed bricks once placed above the entrance to a vast room (T3) next to Shalmaneser III's throne room. The whole panel is composed of about 300 bricks and is 4 meters...