Images

Medallion of the Pamplona casket that shows a scene with an orchestra (11th century CE). Museo de Navarra, Pamplona (Spain).

A stone from an olive press used to collect the oil from the pressed olives and pour it into a waiting receptacle. 6th-2nd century BCE, Saint Blaise, France.

A reconstruction of a medieval catapult or trebuchet of the 12th-14th century CE. Chateau of Les Baux-de-Provence, France. The trebuchet used a counterweight of stones to spring a single arm and propel a stone or incendiary over a distance...

The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania in Tipaza, Algeria was built in 3 BCE by Juba II of Numidia (c. 50 BCE – c. 25 CE) and his wife Cleopatra Selene II (40 BCE – c. 5 BCE). This tomb may have been the final resting place of Juba II and Cleopatra...

A detail of a painted dromos and dome camera from a tumulus near Aleksandrovo village, Haskovo district, Bulgaria. The dromos has battle scenes while the burial chamber has a hunting scene, unfolded in a circle, and in the lower register...

A detail of a painted dromos and dome camera from a tumulus near Aleksandrovo village, Haskovo district, Bulgaria. The dromos has battle scenes while the burial chamber has a hunting scene, unfolded in a circle, and in the lower register...

Tomb in the town of Kazanlak, Bulgaria. Painted in dromos and dome camera. Dromos - scene with battle scenes Dome camera - a scene with a symposium Beginning of the 3rd century BCE. Photographer: Marin Karavelov (used with permission)

An Attic black-figure amphora with a scene showing Theseus and Procrustes, circa 480 BCE. (National Historical Museum - Sofia) Photography: Archaeological Museum, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (used with permission)

A red-figure bell krater showing a griffin or gryphon attacking Amazons. First half of 4th century BCE. Vassil Bojkov Collection. Photographer: Marin Karavelov for the Thrace Foundation

A silver rhyton with a stag protome. Last quarter of 4th century BCE. From a Thracian workshop. (Vassil Bojkov Collection)