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Sard gem engraved with a grasshopper marching to the right, wearing a lion-skin and playing on a lyre. Length: 1 centimetres Height: 1.3 centimetres 1st-3rd centuries CE London, BM, 1814,0704.1447.

The Seikilos Stele, Copenhagnen NM inv.14897. This grave stele preserves the oldest complete song that has survived to our times, and dates to around the 2nd century CE. Found in 1883 by Sir William Ramsay at Aydin (Tralleis), the...

The Seikilos Stele, Copenhagnen NM inv.14897. This grave stele preserves the oldest complete song that has survived to our times, and dates to around the 2nd century CE. Found in 1883 by Sir William Ramsay at Aydin (Tralleis), the grave...

A double-spouted pot in silver, made in imitation of pottery examples. From the Lambayeque Civilization of northern Peru, 900-1375 CE. (Art Institute of Chicago)

A gold glove from a tomb of the Lambayeque Civilization of northern Peru, 900-1375 CE. (Museo Oro del Perú y Armas del Mundo, Lima, Peru)

A gold mask and headdress assemblage from the Lambayeque civilization of northern Peru. The face above the mask represents a bat. From the Huaca Loro burial mound of Batan Grande, 900-1375 CE. (Lords of Sipan Museum, Peru)

A ceremonial knife (or tumi) from the Lambayeque civilization (Sican) of northern Peru, 9-11th century. Gold and silver inlaid with turquoise. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Library of Celsus at Ephesus was completed in 117 CE. It was built on the order of Tiberius Julius Acquila in memory of his father Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, proconsul (governor) of the Asian province c. 105 to 114 CE.

The Temple of Hadrian on Curetes Street at Ephesus in Ionia (modern Turkey). It was built before 138 CE by a wealthy Ephesian, P. Vedius Antoninus Sabinus, and was dedicated to Hadrian, who came to visit the city in 124 and 129 CE.

A detail of a Chimu cloth from a mantle, 1100-1470 CE. (Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru)