Images

A sculpture of the Buddha with some of the original gold leaf still intact. This shows the extravagance with which these statues were decorated. 2nd-3rd century CE. (Taxila Museum, Punjab, Pakistan)

The various levels of construction in the cities and monuments of Taxila from the oldest (bottom) to the latest (top) as recreated at Taxila Museum. -Early Rubble Masonry: 2nd cent BCE and earlier (Bottommost) -Rubble Masonry: 2nd cent...

Base molding typically seen on most stupa bases in the Taxila region

A statue of Vishnu riding Garuda. Cham culture, Vietnam, 8-9th century CE. (Musée Guimet, Paris)

Limestone funerary bust of a woman from Palmyra (Central Syria) with traces of polychromy so called ”The Beauty of Palmyra”, 190-210 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

The lady Marti, a funerary portrait of a woman from Palmyra, c. 170-190 CE (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen).

This papyrus was written around 200 BCE in Hermopolis, Egypt, and contains seven fragmentary lines (338–344) from the first chorus of Euripides, Orestes. The fragment contains vocal and instrumental symbols written above the lines of the...

The course of the River Ganges. Beginning in the Himalaya it runs for 2,700 km to the Bay of Bengal.

Ganga, the Hindu personification of the River Ganges. A sandstone lintel from a temple at Beshnagar, c. 500 CE. The goddess stands on a makara (a mix of crocodile and elephant) which symbolises the life-giving nature of water.

A view of the orchestra of the Theatre of Epidaurus taken from the steps of the audience seats.