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Marble head from a portrait statue of a veiled priestess of the goddess Vesta. The headdress identifies the subject as a Vestal Virgin. Above her hair are six folds of the infula, a long woolen band wrapped around the...

The museum of Timgad in Algeria is located at the entrance of the site. It contains a particularly impressive collection of more than 80 mosaics and other important artefacts found at the site. Among the masterpieces are the mosaic...

Silver-gilt bull rhyton from the Borovo treasure. First half of the 4th century BCE. Regional Museum of History - Ruse. Photo: Nikolay Genov in the catalogue of the exhibition Los...

This is a votive statuette of a male Sumerian worshiper from the Square Temple of Abu at Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna, Mesopotamia, Iraq), Early Dynastic III, 2600-2400 BCE. Excavated by the Oriental...

This is a votive statuette of a female Sumerian worshiper from the Square Temple of Abu at Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna, Mesopotamia, Iraq), Early Dynastic III, 2600-2400 BCE. Excavated by the...

The rooms of Minoan frescoes, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion. At the right end is the fresco of the Prince with the Lilies.

This is a full replica of one of the Balawat gates. The bronze bands are original and were embossed with warfare scenes and military campaigns conducted by the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III (e.g., the capture of...

Epicurus (Epikouros), 342/1 - 271/0 BCE. He was the founder of the Epicurean school. From near the Via Appia, Rome. Roman copy of a lost Greek original of the late 3rd or 2nd century BCE. (The British Museum, London)

This is a votive statuette of a male Sumerian worshiper from the Square Temple of Abu at Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna, Mesopotamia, Iraq), Early Dynastic III, 2600-2400 BCE. Excavated by the Oriental...

Statue of a Sumerian female worshiper from the Temple of Sin at Khafajah (ancient Tutub), Iraq. Early Dynastic period, c. 2600 BCE. Excavated by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in...