IRAQ: LYRE.
IRAQ: LYRE
IRAQ: LYRE W/ BULL'S HEAD.
IRAQ: LYRE, c2500 B.C.
SUMERIAN STATUETTE.
SUMERIAN ART, c2500 B.C.
SUMERIAN DAGGER.
SUMERIAN JEWELRY.
SUMERIAN GOAT.
SUMERIAN SEAL.
Detail from the Standard of Ur, Sumerian.
BABYLONIA: CLAY TABLET.
AKKADIAN CYLINDER SEAL.
BABYLON: ENAMEL BRICK BULL.
BABYLON: ISHTAR GATE 600 B.C.
IRAN: BULL VESSEL.
EGYPTIAN JEWELRY.
CHINA: JADE PLAQUE.
MOHENJO DARO SEALS.
SUMERIAN BULL'S HEAD.
INDUS VALLEY: SEAL.
ANATOLIA: BULL STANDARD.
IRAQ: JEWELRY.
ASSYRIAN BULL.
CHINA: BRONZE SCULPTURE.
MYCENAEAN GOLD.
URUK: INNIN TEMPLE FACADE.
Relief of winged bull for Sennacherib 704 - 681 B.C.
Winged bull for Sennacherib 704 - 681 B.C.
A winged bull for Sennacherib's palace 704 - 681 B.C.
BABYLONIAN TABLET.
SUMERIAN GOLD HELMET.
SUMER: UR-NINGIRSU.
GREEK COIN 6th CENTURY B.C.
GREEK COIN, c500 B.C.
MACEDONIAN COIN.
GREEK COIN, c520 B.C.
GREEK COIN, 6th CENTURY B.C.
BABYLONIAN CYLINDER SEAL.
SUMER: CYLINDER SEAL.
ASSYRIA: BULL SCULTPURE.
ASSYRIAN TOY.
CHINA: BRONZE VASE.
IMPERIAL FABERGE EGG, 1912.
BABYLON: ISHTAR GATE.
SUMERIAN CYLINDER SEAL
Illustration from a nineteenth century edition of 'Robinson Crusoe' a novel by Daniel Defoe.
IRAQ: ZIGGURAT IN UR.
IRAQ: ZIGGURAT AT UR.
IRAQ: SUMERIAN TEMPLE.
IRAQ: RESIDENTIAL AREA.
A ROMAN EMPEROR IN BATTLE.
SUMER: DRINKING TROUGH.
Engraving depicting Sir Austen Henry Layard's excavators lowering one of the Great Winged Bulls found in Nineveh
BRONZE WHETSTONE HANDLES
EGYPT: GOLD RING.
SUMERIAN BRONZE
EGYPT: CARVED HORSE.
ASSYRIA: HORSE BLINDER.
SYBARIS STATER, c560 B.C.
INDIA: GUPTA COIN.
TURKEY: EX-VOTO FIGURES.
IRAQ: BEDOUIN HOME, c1932.
SUMERIAN ART.
PERU: WARI FIGURE.
GREEK COIN, c350 B.C.
ASSYRIA: WINGED BULL.
ISIS, OSIRIS, HORUS.
SCYTHIAN ORNAMENTS.
HAMMURABI (d. 1750 B.C.).
SUMERIAN HEADDRESS.
SUMERIAN VICTORY.
ZIGGURAT AT UR.
AZTEC KNIFE, 15th CENTURY.
BABYLONIAN LION
BABYLONIA: GILGAMESH.
CHINA: CAVALRYMAN.
MYTHOLOGY: HERCULES.
BULL WITH HUMAN FACE.
NEAPOLIS COIN 326 BC.
BACCHUS COIN, 90-88 B.C.
INDIA: KUSHAN COINS.
THESEUS AND MINOTAUR.
MINOTAUR.
CHINA: JADE ELEPHANT.
CHINA: BRONZE VESSEL.
ASSYRIA: ASHURBANIPAL
TERRACOTTA JAR.
GREEK TERRACOTTA STATUE
HOHOKAM & ANASAZI FIGURES.
CELTIC BROOCH
GREEK COIN, c520-500 B.C.
MITHRAS KILLING BULL, 240 A.D.
DEER CARVING.
Agate Lentoid
Chalcedony ring stone
Carnelian scaraboid seal
INDIAN DAGGER HILT.
INDIAN DAGGER.
CHINA: CERAMIC FIGURE.
HALTON MOOR CUP.
HINDUISM: NANDI.
INDIAN CEREMONIAL BELL.
PREHISTORY: PLAQUETTE.
MEXICO: TEOTIHUACAN BOWL.
CHINA: RAM HEAD
Nimrud : Details from Obelisk of Shalmaneser III.
ANCIENT EGYPT: ALTAR.
The Royal lion hunt.
MYTHOLOGY: PEGASUS.
Egyptian Necklace with faience Wadjet-amulets and turquoise beads.
Lapis lazuli crystals I
Lapis lazuli crystals II
ELEPHANT ORNAMENT.
ELEPHANT CAPARISON.
ELEPHANT HEAD ORNAMANET.
INDIA: SILVER SWING.
Lapis Lazuli
BABYLONIA: ROYAL FIGURE.
BABYLONIAN CUNEIFORM
BABYLONIAN RECIPIES.
SUMER: STATUETTE, 2500 B.C.
The Peace frieze from the Standard of Ur. Sumerian artefact excavated from the Royal Cemetery in Ur (located in modern-day Iraq)
Lazurite birthstone
EGYPT: TUTANKHAMEN
ASSYRIAN PALACE.
ETRUSCAN RIDER.
EGYPTIAN CLAY POT.
CHINA: MARBLE SCULPTURE.
CHINA: BRONZE TIGER.
CHINA: JADE TIGER.
GREEK TERRACOTTA JUG.
BRONZE LION-FINIAL
GREEK RHYTON.
ASSYRIA: STONE FIGURES.
ASSYRIAN CARAVAN.
NATIVE AMERICAN TOOL.
GREEK COIN: DEER, c375 B.C.
CHINA: PAINTED SHELL.
MAGDALENIAN HARPOONS.
PALEOLITHIC TOOL.
FRANCE: GALLIC SCULPTURE.
PRECOLUMBIAN TOY.
CAVE ART: GOAT.
SUMERIAN DOE.
Pendants in the form of a goat, cockerel and a bird
DAKOTA DANCE SHIELD.
SPANISH FAN, 18th CENTURY.
DA SALO VIOLIN.
TURKEY: BULL PAINTING.
CAVE ART: LASCAUX.
CAVE ART
BULL: LASCAUX, FRANCE.
WOUNDED BULL: LASCAUX.
SPAIN: PREHISTORIC BISON.
FARNESE BULL.
SPAIN: ROMAN FRIEZE.
MITHRAS KILLING THE BULL.
ANASAZI SPLIT-TWIG FIGURE.
CHINA: CLAY FIGURE.
TROJAN HORSE.
GREEK COIN: HORSE.
SILVER DIDRACHM: METAPONTUM.
GREEK HORSE & PALM COIN.
SILVER TETRADRACHM
SILVER TETRACRACHM
PALEOLITHIC SPEAR.
GREECE: BRONZE HORSE.