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From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC This is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the 'Great Death Pit', one of the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. The other is now in the University of...

The supreme god Amun represented here as a ram, protects a figure of king Taharqo (Taharqa; Biblical Tirhakah or Tirhaqah). The ruler's forehead of two cobras instead of one, an assertion of sovereignty over both his native...

The Ram Chandra temple is a prominent part of Katas Raj complex of early Hinduism, situated in the District of Chakwal in the Punjab, Pakistan. This site is a complex and dates back to the 3rd century BCE. A Buddhist...

Granite gneiss of the Ram of Amun. The standing figure is King Taharqa. 25th Dynasty, c. 680 BCE, from Temple T, Kawa, Egypt. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

The golden fleece is the fleece of a flying, winged ram named Crius Chrysomallos, or 'Golden-fleeced Ram', in Greek mythology. It is best known from the story of Jason and the Argonauts, who were sent by Pelias, the ruler of Iolcos...

A bronze ram from the prow of a Carthaginian warship. Found off the Aegadian Islands (near Sicily) and dating to the First Punic War (264 and 241 BCE). A Punic inscription dedicates the ram to the Phoenician and Punic god...

The hull of the Olympias, a full-scale reconstruction of an ancient Greek trireme warship. The principal strategy in battle of the trireme was to sink or damage the oars of an enemy vessel using the bronze ram fixed...

A bucchero ware box with ram and bull decoration. Etruscan, 4th century BCE. (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums, Rome)

The Hindu god of fire Agni seated on a ram. Angkor Borei, Cambodia, 7th century CE. (Musée Guimet, Paris)

Wat Phra Ram at Ayutthaya in Thailand. This monastery was built in 1369 CE on the cremation site for Ayutthaya’s first king, Ramathibodi I, who reigned 1350-1369 CE. Photo taken in 2019 CE.