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Jade Necklace
Jade Necklace, Jade Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
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Jade Drill
Jade Drill, Jade Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica.
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Pre-Columbian Pottery
Pre-Columbian Pottery, Jade Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica,
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Stone Spheres
Stone Spheres, Jade Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica.
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Basalt Lion of Babylon (Statue)
The Lion of Babylon (أسد بابل), a stone sculpture found in the ancient city of Babylon, modern-day Iraq in 1876. It may have been built by either Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BCE) or the Hittites (notice the absence...
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Shari-den, Engakuji, Kamakura
The Shari-den building of the Buddhist monastery site Engakuji, Kamakura, Japan. Established c. 1283 CE, the building is the only survivor from the Kamakura period (1185-1333 CE) and is thought to house a tooth of the...
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Battle of Cynossema
Battle of Cynossema, 411 BCE. Athenian fleet in blue, Spartan navy in red.
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Reconstruction of the Heuneburg Hillfort
A reconstruction of the late Iron Age hillfort in Heuneburg, Germany. Heuneburg was first fortified in the 16th Century BCE, but was abandoned in the Late Bronze Age. Heuneburg was again fortified in the 6th...
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Reconstruction of the Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave
A reconstruction of an Iron Age grave from Hochdorf an der Enz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This burial mound is associated with the Hallstatt Culture, and the man interred is believed to have been...
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Golden Shoes of Hochdorf
A pair of thin, embossed gold coverings, which decorated the shoes of the chieftain buried at Hochdorf around 530 BCE. Bern Historical Museum, Switzerland. The burial mound at Hochdorf is associated with the Hallstatt...
