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Bronze Age Hattian ceremonial standard known as "Sun Disks" with two bull and a deer, the sacred animals of the Hattians. These objects were used in religious ceremonies and were found in the royal tombs of Hattian times unearthed...

An illustration indicating the original design of the Konark Sun Temple in Orissa, India. 13th century CE.

A sculpture of the Hindu sun-god Surya. The god is in a typical pose holding lotus flowers. Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh, India, c. 1100-1150 CE. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

The Andesite Sun of Sarmizegetusa Regia is an altar that together with the temples in its vicinity formed an assemblage in which religious ceremonies and rituals were performed. It was built during the reign of...

An 1891 oil on canvas, Haystacks in the Sun, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. Monet painted a whole series of canvases on haystacks in a field near his home in Giverny. The artist was keen...

The Trundholm sun chariot, 1400 BCE. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.

Silver leaf disc dedicated to the sun god Sol. Sol is crowned with rays. Two horses appear behind his shoulders. From Pessinus (Bala-Hissar, Asia Minor), in modern-day Turkey. Roman period, 3rd century CE. The British...

The ruins of the huge adobe-brick platforms of the Temple of the Sun at the sacred Andean site of Pachacamac, south of Lima. The site was sacred to the creator god Pachacamac and hosted an oracle which was consulted...

Picture stone with whirling suns, ornaments, and a ship, 5th-6th century. Fornsalen Museum, Visby (Gotland).

This necklace made of clay was found in a grave alongside other ornaments and two veil holders. It dates from the 5th-4th century BCE and was found at the Necropolis of Navafría, Clares (Maranchón, Guadalajara), Spain...