Images

Tame deer drinking from an ornate fountain; this scene became popular in Early Christian art as symbolizing the fountain of life. From Carthage, modern-day Tunisia. 4th or 5th century CE. (The British Museum, London)

A fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a fishing scene. From Utica, modern-day Tunisia. Late 3rd or 4th century CE. (The British Museum, London)

This is part of a hunting scene from a pavement showing a boar confronting a hunting dog. The pavement is one of a common North African type, depicting a favourite pastime of wealthy landowners. From Carthage, modern-day Tunisia. Late 5th...

An artist's impression of what a Greek diplomatic delegation may have looked like.

An artist's impression of what a scene from Carthaginian or Near Eastern government may have looked like.

An illustration of the Roman sawmill at Hieropolis. 3rd century CE.

An illustration of a breastshot waterwheel, used, for example, by the Romans to power mills for grinding grain.

A textile fragment from a tomb at the sacred Andean site of Pachacamac, south of Lima. (Historisches Museum Bern‎, Switzerland)

The ruins of the huge adobe-brick platforms of the Temple of the Sun at the sacred Andean site of Pachacamac, south of Lima. The site was sacred to the creator god Pachacamac and hosted an oracle which was consulted by Andeans for two millennium...

A view of the 'Nunnery' building at the sacred Andean site of Pachacamac, south of Lima. The 'Nunnery' provided accommodation for female priests and was built by the Incas when they took over the site in the late 15th century CE.