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Traditional Holly Wreath
A traditional holly wreath.
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Preparing the Yule Log
The Christmas tradition of preparing the Yule log at Hever Castle, to be burnt over the twelve days of Christmas, painting by Robert Alexander Hillingford, 19th century.
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Medieval Manuscript Illustration of the Nativity
A 1310-1320 CE manuscript illustration of the Nativity. Made in East Anglia. (National Library of Wales)
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Urartian Fragment from a Bronze Belt
This fragment from a bronze belt was reused as a belt end. The embossed or chased design is divided by discs and scroll-crosses into panels with discs above stylised trees. A deity stands on a bull. The holes...
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Urartian Octagonal Bronze Bell
This bell has a suspension ring in the form of a fist. Bells are said to have been a Chinese invention, which reached the Middle East in about 800 BCE. However, Chinese bells are struck on the exterior while the Urartian...
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Standing God on a Bull from Urartu
This is a bronze furniture-fitting (probably of a corner of a throne or bed). A god wearing a fringed robe stands on a recumbent bull. It was originally inlaid and gilded. From Toprakkale, Eastern Anatolia, in modern-day...
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Lindisfarne Gospels Cover
A cover of the Lindisfarne Gospels, produced in the Kingdom of Northumbria 8-10th century CE. (British Library, London)
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Map of the Kingdom of Northumbria
A map of the Kingdom of Northumbria (c. 604-954 CE) in the northeast of Britain c. 802 CE.
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Jomon Flame Pot from Dodaira
"Flame" pots, such as this, are just one type of a long ceramic tradition that continued for some 13,000 years during the Jomon period in Japan. They were made in the Middle Jomon period (3500-2500 BCE) in the area that...
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Gilgamesh Tablet Fragment
A tablet, discovered in 2015 CE, with a passage from the Gilgamesh epic. CUNES 48-07-173. (Photographs by Prof. David I. Owen, Rosen Collection, Cornell University. Used with permission)
