IRAQ: LYRE, c2500 B.C.
IRAQ: LYRE.
IRAQ: LYRE
IRAQ: LYRE W/ BULL'S HEAD.
SUMERIAN ART, c2500 B.C.
SUMERIAN STATUETTE.
SUMERIAN DAGGER.
SUMERIAN JEWELRY.
Detail from the Standard of Ur, Sumerian.
SUMERIAN GOAT.
SUMERIAN SEAL.
AKKADIAN CYLINDER SEAL.
BABYLONIA: CLAY TABLET.
BABYLON: ISHTAR GATE 600 B.C.
EGYPTIAN JEWELRY.
IRAQ: JEWELRY.
BABYLON: ENAMEL BRICK BULL.
IRAN: BULL VESSEL.
URUK: INNIN TEMPLE FACADE.
BABYLONIAN TABLET.
SUMERIAN GOLD HELMET.
SUMER: UR-NINGIRSU.
CHINA: JADE PLAQUE.
CHINA: BRONZE SCULPTURE.
MOHENJO DARO SEALS.
SUMERIAN BULL'S HEAD.
INDUS VALLEY: SEAL.
ANATOLIA: BULL STANDARD.
ASSYRIAN BULL.
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.
IMPERIAL FABERGE EGG, 1912.
SUMERIAN CYLINDER SEAL
Illustration from a nineteenth century edition of 'Robinson Crusoe' a novel by Daniel Defoe.
SUMER: STATUETTE, 2500 B.C.
GREEK COIN, c500 B.C.
GREEK COIN, c520 B.C.
IRAQ: ZIGGURAT IN UR.
IRAQ: ZIGGURAT AT UR.
IRAQ: SUMERIAN TEMPLE.
IRAQ: RESIDENTIAL AREA.
GREEK COIN 6th CENTURY B.C.
GREEK COIN, 6th CENTURY B.C.
HAMMURABI (d. 1750 B.C.).
SUMER: DRINKING TROUGH.
SUMER: CYLINDER SEAL.
MYCENAEAN GOLD.
ASSYRIA: BULL SCULTPURE.
PERU: WARI FIGURE.
MACEDONIAN COIN.
BABYLONIAN CYLINDER SEAL.
ISIS, OSIRIS, HORUS.
Engraving depicting Sir Austen Henry Layard's excavators lowering one of the Great Winged Bulls found in Nineveh
SUMERIAN HEADDRESS.
SUMERIAN VICTORY.
ZIGGURAT AT UR.
ASSYRIAN TOY.
CHINA: BRONZE VASE.
AZTEC KNIFE, 15th CENTURY.
SYBARIS STATER, c560 B.C.
BABYLON: ISHTAR GATE.
BACCHUS COIN, 90-88 B.C.
IRAQ: BEDOUIN HOME, c1932.
GREEK COIN, c350 B.C.
ASSYRIA: WINGED BULL.
A ROMAN EMPEROR IN BATTLE.
SCYTHIAN ORNAMENTS.
Egyptian Necklace with faience Wadjet-amulets and turquoise beads.
Lapis lazuli crystals I
Lapis lazuli crystals II
Lapis Lazuli
BABYLONIA: ROYAL FIGURE.
BABYLONIAN CUNEIFORM
BABYLONIAN RECIPIES.
BRONZE WHETSTONE HANDLES
BABYLONIAN LION
BABYLONIA: GILGAMESH.
MYTHOLOGY: HERCULES.
BULL WITH HUMAN FACE.
NEAPOLIS COIN 326 BC.
INDIA: KUSHAN COINS.
THESEUS AND MINOTAUR.
INDIA: GUPTA COIN.
MINOTAUR.
TURKEY: EX-VOTO FIGURES.
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: GOLD RING.
CHINA: CAVALRYMAN.
SUMERIAN BRONZE
EGYPT: CARVED HORSE.
GREEK COIN, c520-500 B.C.
TERRACOTTA JAR.
ASSYRIA: HORSE BLINDER.
GREEK TERRACOTTA STATUE
MEXICO: TEOTIHUACAN BOWL.
CHINA: RAM HEAD
SUMERIAN ART.
EGYPT: CATTLE, 2300 B.C.
PERU: INCA KEROS.
Decorated ostrich eggshell from the Ur cemetery.
The Queen's Lyre.
SUMER: PRINCE GUDEA.
CART, 4th MILLENNIUM B.C.
Polished lapis lazuli stone
Lapis lazuli, SEM
Lazurite
Lapis lazuli specimen
Lapis lazuli
Belt-hook carved in lapis lazuli
Lapis lazuli, a rare, deep blue gemstone
Lapis lazuli crystals
18th century, Indian dress sword taken at the relief of Lucknow 1857. Charlecote House; Warwickshire, England
Lazurite crystals in a matrix of calcite
Necklace of lapis lazuli
GREEK COIN: DEER, c375 B.C.
EGYPT: TUTANKHAMEN
ANCIENT EGYPT: PHARAOH.
ASSYRIAN PALACE.
CHINA: WINE VESSEL.
EGYPT: THOTH.
EGYPTIAN CLAY POT.
CHINA: ORACLE SHELL.
CHINA: ORACLE BONE.
CHINA: NEOLITHIC SCULPTURE.
CHINA: MARBLE SCULPTURE.
CHINA: BRONZE BIRD.
CHINA: JADE PENDANT.
CHINA: JADE ELEPHANT.
CHINA: BRONZE TIGER.
CHINA: BRONZE VESSEL.
CHINA: JADE TIGER.
EGYPT: SCARAB RING.
TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMEN.
SNAKE GODDESS.
MINOAN STATUETTE
GREEK TERRACOTTA JUG.
MYCENAEAN JAR.
BRONZE LION-FINIAL
IRAN: GODDESS FIGURES.
INDUS VALLEY: TOY.
LAO-TZU (c604-531 B.C.).
HOHOKAM & ANASAZI FIGURES.
CELTIC BROOCH
GREEK RHYTON.
ASSYRIA: ASHURBANIPAL
ASSYRIA: STONE FIGURES.
MITHRAS KILLING BULL, 240 A.D.
BABYLONIAN TEMPLE.
DEER CARVING.
Agate Lentoid
Chalcedony ring stone
Carnelian scaraboid seal
Iraq. Ur.
INDIAN DAGGER HILT.
INDIAN DAGGER.
DAKOTA DANCE SHIELD.
CHINA: CERAMIC FIGURE.
HALTON MOOR CUP.
SPANISH FAN, 18th CENTURY.
DA SALO VIOLIN.
HINDUISM: NANDI.
INDIAN CEREMONIAL BELL.