Images

A celadon gourd-shaped ewer deocrated with lotus petals. 13th century CE, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea. (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea)

A maebyeong celadon vase with lotus decoration. 12th century CE, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea)

A celadon pitcher in the form of a Taoist figure. Goryeo Dynasty, 12th century CE, Korea. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea)

Dancing apsara, Preah Khan, Angkor.

A block from a Roman mausoleum depicting griffins. 1st century BCE, Arausio (Orange), France. (Archaeological Museum, Orange)

A stone mask in the form of a cylops, from Roman Arausio (Orange), France, 1st century CE. Archaeological Museum, Orange.

Cave art in the Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne region, southwestern France. Dated to the Upper Palaeolithic period. It depicts a wounded aurochs bull, a man and a bird.

Horse depicted in Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne, southwestern France, dated to the Upper Paleolithic period.

A marble relief plaque depicting a ship in African waters. 2nd - 3rd century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Sagunto, Spain)

Blocks carrying a Latin inscription of the imperial forum of Roman Saguntum (Sagunto), Spain. 1st century CE.