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This is a fragment from a Buddhist temple in Afghanistan. It dates from between 100-500 CE. (Musée Guimet, Paris)

Two monumental temple-tombs in the ancient city of Imbriogon in Cilicia (modern-day Turkey) dating to the second and third centuries CE. The overall design of the tombs with columns and a standard entablature produces the effect...

Shiva and Arjuna in a fight, with yali-pillars on the front, Kailasanatha Temple, Kanchipuram, India. 700-720 CE.

The facade of Ninmah (Ninhursag, Damgalnuna) Temple at the ancient city of Babylon, Iraq, reing of Nebuchadnezzar II, 6th century BCE. Ninmah was a mother goddess in ancient Mesopotamia. Most of the walls were...

The so-called "tongue tower" lies at the top of the ruins of the ziggurat and temple of Nabu at the ancient city of Borsippa, in modern-day Babel Governorate, Iraq. 6th century BCE.

This giant Medusa head was formerly part of a frieze on the architrave of the Apollo Temple at Didyma (Turkey).

This limestone relief came from the Mortuary Temple of the pharaoh Nyuserre Ini (late 25th Century BCE) at Abusir, Egypt. Nyuserre is protected by the Wadjet and receives life from Anubis. Nyuserre was the 6th ruler of...

Limestone relief showing a procession of deities. Painted. From the funerary temple at the pyramid complex of Sahure in Abusir, Egypt. Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, 2496-2483 BCE. On display at the Neues...

Composite bull and elephant stone sculpture at Vittala Temple, Hampi, India. Carved between 1300 - 1500 CE, this sculpture has a bull on the left and an elephant on the right with a single representation...

Six pairs of giant demon guardians flank all entrances to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand. They are known as yaksha or in Thai are simply called yak (giant), and they are...