Images

Bronze statuette of a dog, part of the Nimrud dogs, a Neo-Assyrian collection of dog figurines found at Nimrud, currently on display in museums at Baghdad, Iraq; Cambridge, England; New York, America, and Melbourne, Australia. Metropolitan...

A scene from a black-figure vase of the Phoenician founder of Thebes Cadmus slaying the dragon which dwelt there. From Euboea, 560-550 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

A scene from a red-figure vase depicting Atalanta holding a spear and Meleager during the Calydonian Boar Hunt of Greek mythology. 400-375 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

A sketch of a scene from a Greek 5th century BCE red-figure vase depicting the slaying of the one-hundred eyed monster Argus Panoptes by Hermes. (British Museum, London)

A scene from a 7th century BCE Cretan jug depicting Ariadne and Theseus. (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete)

A bird-shaped pestle. Stone, 6000-2000 BCE. Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. Most modern vegetables and cereals were first cultivated around 10,000 years ago. This pestle was made for grinding taro, one of the crops farmers in Papua New...

Stone chopping tool. 1.8 - 2 million years old. Found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This chopping tool is an example of the oldest known objects deliberately made by humans. This tool was found with the fossil remains of an extinct human...

Clovis spear point. Flint, 13,000-14,000 year old. Found in Arizona, United States of America. Clovis points were the most widespread evidence of a successful settlement in North America by fully modern humans about 14,000 years ago...

Ice Age drawing of a bison, on limestone, about 13,000-14,000 years old. Found in Montastruc, France. Over, 100,000 years ago the first fully modern humans in southern Africa began to create works of art. These people then migrated to...

Limestone funerary stela, 100 BCE-100 CE. Egypt. This funerary stela commemorates the death of a man named Didymos. It was made during the Ptolemaic period or soon after the Roman conquest. This image was taken at the National Museum...