Images

Sitting figurine of the goddess Ma'at. (Louvre, Paris)

This is a raised and colored relief within the interior of the Temple of Beit el-Wali, Lake Nasser, Aswan, Egypt (c. 1276 BC). On the left, Ramesses II makes an offering of the goddess Ma'at to the god Amun.

Arjuna wins the hand of Draupadi after defeating his other Pandavas brothers in a competition set up by her father, the king of Drupada. Arjuna won by hitting the eye of the rotating fish in the sky. (c. 1885 CE watercolour, Victoria & Albert...

According to some intepretations this temple relief sculpture represents the five Pandavas of Hindu mythology and Draupadi, one of their wives. The heroes of the epic Mahabharata are here shown (left to right): Bhima, Arjuna, Yudisthira...

A gilded bronze statuette of the Egyptian goddess of war Neith. 664-332 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Aegis of Neith, the Egyptian goddess of war. Gilded bronze, XXVI Dynasty, c. 664-525 BCE. (Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon)

A stone statue representing the Celtic goddess Epona with two horses, an animal she was often associated with. 200 CE. (Historic Museum of Bern)

A modern scale model of what the 4th century BCE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus may have looked like, one of the Seven Wonders of the world. (Miniatuk, Istanbul)

Two coins depicting the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Alexandrian mint, 2nd century CE.

A coin from the reign of Hadrian depicting the staute of Zeus at Olympia, on of the Seven Wonders of the World. 117-138 CE. (National Archaeological Museum, Florence)