Statuette of a Horse in Geometric Style
This Statuette of a Horse in Geometric Style is a cast bronze stallion on a pierced base that comes from the Peloponnese, Greece, most probably from t...
Hunters Palette (Louvre)
Hunters Palette The Hunters Palette or Lion Hunt Palette is a 5,000-year-old cosmetic palette is among the few objects that feature the earliest Egypt...
The Colossus of Constantine
The Colossus of Constantine The Colossus of Constantine was a massive sculptured statue of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (280–337) that once...
Byzantine Gold Mosaics influenced “The Lady in Gold”
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt is also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman...
“Ram Caught in a Thicket” from Ur
Ram in a Thicket from Ur This statue of a Ram in a Thicket is one of pair of figures excavated at the site of Ancient Ur, in southern Iraq, and which...
Busts from Ancient History in the National Roman Museum
Busts from Ancient History The National Roman Museum and houses Romes ancient art collection consisting of sculpture, painting, mosaic work, and golds...
Scaramanga’s Golden Gun
Scaramangas Golden Gun Scaramangas Golden Gun was depicted in Ian Flemings novel, the Golden Gun. In the novel, it was a long-barrelled, gold-plated, ...
Law Code of Hammurabi
Law Code of Hammurabi The Law Code of Hammurabi is a Stele that was erected by the King of Babylon in the 18th century B.C. It is a work of art, it is...
Oldest Peace Treaty
Egyptian–Hittite Peace Treaty, 1259 B.C. This Egyptian–Hittite Peace Treaty is the oldest known surviving peace treaty and the only ancient Near Easte...
Gettysburg Address
Lincolns Handwritten Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg Address was a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil Wa...
Lewis Chessmen
Lewis Chessmen The Lewis Chessmen is a collection of unique 12th-century chess pieces that were made from walrus ivory and with a few of the chess pie...
Gutenberg Bible
Gutenberg Bible The Earliest Printed Book The Gutenberg Bible was among the earliest books and the first Bible printed using mass-produced movable me...
Lawrence of Arabia’s Bedouin Robes
T. E. Lawrences Arab Robes These Bedouin Robes belonged to Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888 – 1935), a British archaeologist, army-officer, diplom...
Antikythera Mechanism
Antikythera Mechanism The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek analog computer and mechanical model of the solar system used to predict planetary...
King Alfred’s Jewel
King Alfred’s Jewel The Alfred Jewel is an Anglo-Saxon goldsmithing work made of enamel and quartz enclosed in gold. It has been dated to the lat...
Venus of Brassempouy
Venus of Brassempouy The Venus of Brassempouy is an ivory figurine created about 25,000 years ago and is one of the earliest known realistic represent...
Bronze Age Shield -1200-800 BC
Bronze Age Shield Yetholm-type -1200 800 BC Yetholm-type shields represent a distinctive type of shield dating from 1200 800 BC. The modern type-nam...
Vienna Dioscurides
Vienna Dioscurides Juliana Anicia Codex The Vienna Dioscurides is a Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript copy of Medical Material by Dioscorides, w...
Ancient Manuscripts and Historically Influential Books
Ancient Texts and Historically Influential Books Virtual Tour Ancient and Historical texts can be found in many different forms, which can include Cl...
Temple of Dendur
Temple of Dendur Virtual Tour The Temple of Dendur is an Ancient Egyptian temple, constructed in 10 B.C. by the Roman governor of Egypt. The Temple i...
Babylonian Map of the World Tablet
Worlds Oldest Usable Map This Babylonian Map of the World is a clay tablet containing a labeled depiction of the known world, with a partially survivi...
The Knucklebone Player
The Knucklebone Player The Knucklebone Player depicts a young girl, possibly a nymph of Artemis playing with Knuckle-bones from 150 AD. This Ancient R...
Lament for Ur
Lamentation over the City of Ur The Lamentation over the city of Ur dates back at least 4000 years to ancient Sumer, the worlds first urban civilizati...
Islamic Prayer Niche
Islamic Prayer Niche A Prayer Niche in Arabic is called a miḥrāb and indicates the direction of prayer to Mecca. This prayer niche comes from Kashan, ...
Nebra Sky Disk
Nebra Sky Disk The Nebra Sky Disk is a bronze disk with a blue-green patina which is inlaid with gold symbols. The gold symbols are the Sun or full mo...
Ming Porcelain Jar with Dragon
Chinese Porcelain Jar with Dragon This storage Jar with Dragon painted with cobalt blue on a body was produced for the Emperors court. The paint...
Tomb of Nebamun
Tomb of Nebamun The Tomb of Nebamun is the source of some of the most famous surviving ancient Egyptian polychrome tomb-painting scenes. This scene de...