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This pentelic marble caryatid came from the Erechtheion, Athens, Greece. She was 1 of 6 caryatids that held up the roof of the Erechtheion. Circa 415 BCE. (The British Museum, London).

The Great Gold Buckle from the Sutton Hoo Ship-burial Mound 1, England, UK. Early Anglo-Saxon, early 7th century. The British Museum, London. Its form with curved sides and 3 domed bosses resembles Frankish buckles. The plate...

A Proto-Aeolic capital (fore-runner of the Ionic capital) from Ramat Rachel. The capital was an invention and feature of Phoenician architecture.

Head from a bronze cult statue of Anahita, a local goddess shown here in the guise of Aphrodite. From Satala, Armenia minor. Circa 200-100 BCE. (The British Museum, London)

An artist's impression of what Solomon's temple at Jerusalem may have looked like. Built by Phoenician architects it is described in I Kings Ch. 6-7 of the Bible and was typical of temples of the region at that time in the 10th century BCE.

Punic stele with a crescent moon and the sign of the Phoenician goddess of fertility Tanit, found in Cirta (ancient Constantine, Algeria), around 300-200 BCE. Now in Louvre Lens, France.

The ruins of houses in the Phoenician city of Kerkouane (modern-day Tunisia) Almost every house in the town has its own bathtub and had signinum floors decorated with marble tesserae. The city of Kerkouane was probably abandoned during the...

Floor of a house in the Punic city or Kerkouane (modern-day Tunisia) decorated with primitive mosaic pavements, one of which figures the Punic goddess Tanit. Kerkouane was founded during the Punic period, perhaps in the 5th century BCE...

Part of the Rollright Stones complex, the King’s Men, a circle of about seventy stones, probably date to c. 2500 BCE.

Part of the Rollright Stones complex, the King’s Men, a circle of about seventy stones, probably date to c. 2500 BCE.