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The sculpture group of Laocoön and His Sons, on display in the Vatican since its rediscovery in 1506, depicts the suffering of the Trojan prince and priest Laocoön (brother of Anchises) and his young sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus and is...

Statue of the priest Bano Abdo from Hatra. The statue’s base is inscribed with an Aramaic text. The man has a long beard and an upward-curling mustache. He looks forward and wears a long conical hat. His hands (now lost) would have held a...

Only part of this quartzite statue of the priest Montemhat has survived. He stands and strides and wears a panther skin. From Thebes, modern-day Egypt. Saite period, 26th Dynasty, circa 650 BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany...

The Hidatsa Sun Dance Ritual (also known as Hidatsa Sun Dance) is a Native American story of the Hidatsa nation illustrating the practice of an individual initiating the Sun Dance for personal reasons, in this case, to win the hand of the...

Priest-king statue, Indus Valley Civilization. The statue is 17.5 cm high and carved from steatite a.k.a. soapstone. It was found in Mohenjo-daro in 1927 CE. It is on display in the National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan.

Fresco showing a priest wearing a mask of Anubis, from the Temple of Isis in Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum. The cult of Isis was widely spread in the Hellenistic period because of the religious links that the Greeks maintained...

A detail of a plate commemorating the 1790 Civil Constitution of the Clergy showing a priest swearing allegiance to the French state. The text translates as "I swear to maintain with all my power the Constitution". (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)

Small bronze figurine depicting a priest, found in Sardinia, dating from the Nuragic civilization, Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Museo archeologico nazionale di Cagliari.

A detail from the Book of the Dead of Aaneru from Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, 1070-946 BCE. (Egyptian Museum, Turin)

The ancient Egyptians understood that their gods had prevailed over the forces of chaos through the creation of the world and relied upon humanity's help to maintain it. The people of Mesopotamia held this same belief but felt they were co-workers...