Images

A dancer figure from the Etruscan Tomb of the Lionesses in Tarquinia, central Italy. 520-510 BCE.

Glazed steatite scarab, clypeus marked, feathered legs, longitudinally pierced, base inscribed with name of Khyan and epithets flanked by scrolls.

Finger-ring comprising a green-blue glazed steatite scarab (clypeus marked, humeral callosities present, feathered legs, pierced longitudinally, base inscribed with a cartouche of Khyan with epithets enclosed within a continuous spiral border...

An Etruscan bronze helmet, 5th century BCE. Discovered at Olympia, it was dedicated there and carries an inscription: 'Hieron, son of Deinomenes, and the Syracusans, from Cumae'. Height: 20 cm. (British Museum, London)

An Etruscan bronze warrior statuette. Populonia, 5th century BCE. Height: 26 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

These two cylinders were commissioned by Gudea of Lagash (c. 2144-2124 BCE) as a literary and historical record of the construction of the temple of Ningirsu. Louvre, Paris

A bronze statue of an Etruscan mother and child in typical dress. 500-450 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Venus from Hohle Fels, carved from mammoth ivory in the Late- or Upper Paleolithic Aurignacian period and discovered near Schelklingen, Germany. It has been dated to c. 40,000 to c. 35,000 years old.

Replica seen in The Cavern of the cluster of red dots seen in Chauvet Cave. The art in Chauvet Cave has been dated to between c. 33,000-c.30,000 years old.

Replica of the Panel of the Horses, originally seen in Chauvet Cave. The art at Chauvet has been dated to c.33,000-c.30,000 years old.