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Bronze Hairpin Depicting 'Master of Animals', found in Luristan (central Zagros), c. 950 to c. 650 BCE. National Museum of Iran, Tehran, acc. no. 1459. Photo by Neda Tehrani (Baloot Noghrei) Long bronze hairpins crowned with a large disk...

This is a sandstone stela. In the upper part, there is a winged disk with pendent uraei above a mummy in a boat; a jackal is present on either side of the boat. In the middle of the stela, there is a waz sceptre on either edge. On the left...

Sun disk made of bronze used as a ceremonial standard, from the pre-Hittite period (Hatti). These objects were used in religious ceremonies and were found in the royal tombs of Hattian times unearthed in Alacahöyük, 2500-2250 BCE. Hatti kings...

Seal impression from Nushi Jan Castle Complex, c. 650 BCE. National Museum of Iran, Tehran, inv. no. 13145. Median art has few remaining examples and almost none that seem free from the impacts of its regional predecessors and contemporaries...

Gold disk earrings with filigree decoration. Tomb 22, southern necropolis, Herakleia, southern Italy. 4th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Siritide, Policoro, Italy)

Terracotta bust of a Macedonian goddess or princess from Pella, found in the Agora, dating from the 4th century BCE. Archaeological Museum of Pella. In stark contrast to the limited view of women offered in ancient writings about Macedonia...

This is a painted plaster head from an Egyptian coffin-cover. The eyes were inlaid with glass. Behind the back of the head, there is a painted motif of a winged scarab and sun-disk. This portrait mask is for funerary use. From Egypt. 1st...

A detail from the Throne of Motecuhzoma II otherwise known as the Monument of Sacred War. The sun disk in the centre is flanked by the god Huitzilopochtli on the left and Motecuhzoma II on the right. The stone was carved c. 1507 CE. to commemorate...

Thoth is the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom, magic, writing and the moon and was one of the most important gods of the Egyptian pantheon. As the son of gods representing order and chaos, he was also considered the god of equilibrium which...

In Ancient Egypt, compared to many other ancient cultures, women had it pretty well off. They were fairly equal in all things except for their occupations where men were in positions of authority like part of the government, the king, a general...