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Zvartnots is the oldest and largest aisled tetraconch church in historical Armenia. It was built in the middle of the 7th century CE, under the instructions of the Catholicos Nerses III (r. 641-661 CE). It was partially reconstructed in 1905...

Zvartnots is the oldest and largest aisled tetraconch church in historical Armenia. It was built in the middle of the 7th century CE, under the instructions of the Catholicos Nerses III (r. 641-661 CE).

Zvartnots is the oldest and largest aisled tetraconch church in historical Armenia. It was built in the middle of the 7th century CE, under the instructions of the Catholicos Nerses III (r. 641-661 CE). Four column capitals decorated with...

This Mimbres ceramic vessel dates from 1000-1150 CE. It was made by the Mimbres people who inhabited what's present-day New Mexico from c. 1000-1250 CE. Early Mimbres vessels were decorated with geometric designs painted in black and white...

This Mimbres vessel dates from 1000-1150 CE. The Mimbres, a Mogollon group, lived near the Mimbres River in a mountainous area in the southwest corner of New Mexico from c. 1000-1250 CE. Their clay vessels display a major advance in technology...

This ceremonial metate in the form of a jaguar dates from 600-700 CE and is made of stone. It comes from Guápiles, Limón, Costa Rica. (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, California)

This charming ceramic was made between 100 BCE-250 CE in Nayarit, Mexico. (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, California)

This sculpture of a male figure dates from 200 BCE-500 CE. It is a polychrome ceramic. It comes from what's presently Nayarit, Mexico. (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, California)

This sculpture of a joined male and female couple dates from 100 BCE-250 CE. It is a polychrome ceramic and comes from Nayarit, Mexico. (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, California)

This is a funerary relief of a old man who lived in Syria when it was under Roman occupation (64 BCE-260 CE). It dates from the 3rd century CE, and it is made of limestone. (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University...