Images

Akhenaten and the royal family blessed by Aten, limestone relief from Tell el-Amarna, New Kingdom of Egypt, c. 1350 BCE. Egyptian Museum, Berlin.

Choragic Monument of Lysicrates Dedication: 335/334 BCE Location: Athens, Greece

Pipes and cisterns installed by Peisistratus at the Acropolis for the supply of fresh water in Athens. 6th century BCE.

A 17th century CE idealised portrait by Wang Qi of the North China warlord and military dictator Cao Cao (d. 220 CE).

A map showing the territories of the main Chinese warlords at the fall of the Han dynasty in the early 3rd century CE.

Cao Cao (d. 220 CE), the Chinese warlord, recites a poem prior to the Battle of Red Cliffs. (Summer Palace Beijing)

A diorite stele with an inscription of Hammurabi's code of laws. Susa, Babylonia, 18th century BCE. Cast of the original now in the Louvre, Paris. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

A krater from Melos with geometric design. By the Rottiers painter, 8th century BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

Hercules capturing Cerberus (Kerberos), the hound of Hades. Detail from an Attic black-figure amphora, c. 530 BCE. Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

The marble grave stele of an Athenian horseman. Attica, 370s BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)