Images

This fragment of a human-headed winged-bull, from Tiglath-pileser III's palace, is carved in low-relief like a wall panel. There is a marked contrast with the colossal figures in very high relief, of both earlier and later periods. Assyrian...

Assyrian relief, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq; reused later in the South-West Palace, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, c. 728 BCE. An enemy horseman is ridden down by a pair...

Assyrian relief, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, reused later in the South-West Palace, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, c. 728 BCE. This scene, with a fleeing enemy horseman turning...

Assyrian relief showing a siege, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, Iraq. Date palms indicate that the city, most of which was on an adjacent slab, was probably Babylonia. The Assyrians have built a siege...

Assyrian relief, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, Iraq. This is one of a series of panels that showed Tiglath-Pileser III's military campaigns in modern-day southern Iraq. On the left is a captured town...

These cuneifrom inscriptions describe some of the military campaigns of the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III (reigned 744-727 BCE) and were probably first placed in a doorway of the Central Palace built by this King at Nimrud. Assyrian...

An 18th century CE miniature depicting a famous scene from the Mahabharata in which Draupadi is humiliated in the court of Duryodhan during the struggle for the control of Indraprastha.

A watercolur painting on cloth depicting Karna, leader of the Kauravas during the Kurukshetra war as recounted in the epic Mahabharata.

The places that are mentioned in the Ramayana. An interactive version of this map, where the events can be seen on mouseover, is at http://ani-basu.carto.com/viz/fc3a3582-693d-11e6-8680-0ee66e2c9693/public_map.

A reconstrcution of the girl known as Myrtis, who died from the plague which hit Athens 430-427 BCE. She was buried in the Kerameikos cemetery of the city.