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Marble bust of a man wearing a toga with thick folds.  Artist unknown; ca. 240-250 CE.  Now in the B

Head of a bodhisattva, from Gandhara.  Artist unknown; 4th or 5th cent. CE.  Now in the British Muse

Roman deities honored on January 1. All photos © The Trustees of the British Museum. Image License:C

grandegyptianmuseum:A fragment of a painting from the tomb of Nebamun. British Museum, London.

Human head pendant. Nigeria - Igbo-Ukwu. 9thC-10thC. British Museum. A lost-wax casting, probably le

Coronation Street Jigsaw Puzzle.Those were the days at the Castle Museum, York. England. 

Chris Lebeau, glass vase, 1925-30. Leerdam, Holland. Via British Museum.Joris Johannes Christiaan Le

First edition woodcut print of a rhinoceros created by Albrecht Dürer in 1515.In 1515 an Indian Rhin

Coin of Antinous and Demeter. Roman Provincial; minted in: Adramyteum (Asia, Turkey, Mysia, Adramyte

The Military Beauty (Feb 1781). Mezzotint. British Museum. 

ancientpeoples:PendantEarly Anglo Saxon7th Century(Source: The British Museum)

nemfrog:Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum. 1842. Book cover.

bernardcreely:From The Parthenon c. 447 BC-432 BC British Museum

Black-figure column-krater depicting a charioteer in a quadriga and two youths on horseback (top) an

Ancient Worlds - BBC Two Episode 2 “The Age of Iron”Detail - Assyrian stone wall panel from the Cent

Priam arrives at Achilles’ shelter to ransom the body of his son Hector.  The youth facing him has b

Ancient Roman tombstone depicting Heracles/Hercules and Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy,

Bellerophon, astride Pegasus, attacks the Chimera.  Molded medallion from an Apulian terracotta flas

It was common practice in antiquity to dedicate representations of afflicted parts at a healing shri

Saint Margaret of Antioch by British School, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval ArtThe Friedsam Co

medievaliz:presentpasts:The Lewis Chessmen at the British Museum. These inspired the magic chess set

ancientpeoples:Necklace5th Century BC - 2nd Century BCEtruscan(Source: The British Museum)

fourteenth:Dancing maenad. Detail from an Ancient Greek Paestum red-figure skyphos, made by Python,

artofthedarkages:A Roman sestertius of the emperor Vespasian commemorating his conquest of Judea, wi

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