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Inca qollqa (storehouses) used for storing grain and other foodstuffs. 15-16th century CE, Ollantaytambo.

Relief depicting the rapt of Persephone by Hades. Emerging from the earth, the god of the underworld and underground forces, Hades, kidnaps his niece, Persephone, with whom he is in love. Found at the Roman Villa of Chiragan, France. Early...

An Inca circular terracing used to increase agricultural yield. Moray, Peru, 15-16th century CE.

Terracotta statuette of Hades sitting on his throne, from Boeotia, c. 400-350 BCE (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

Apulian red-figure volute krater with scenes of the Underworld, c. 340-330 BCE. Hades sits enthroned in the palace beside a standing Persephone, who holds a four-headed Eleusinian torch. The god wields a bird-tipped staff. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen...

Apulian red-figure volute krater with scenes of the Underworld, c. 340-330 BCE. Hades sits enthroned in the palace beside a standing Persephone, who holds a four-headed Eleusinian torch. The god wields a bird-tipped staff. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen...

Attic white-ground Lekythos depicting Charon, the ferryman of Hades, pushing his boat across the Acheron, c. 450 BCE. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

Etruscan Rython in the form of Charon, the ferryman of Hades, 4th century BCE. (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich)

This two-headed bust was made of plaster and bitumen and was found in modern-day Ain Ghazal in the outskirt of Amman city, Jordan in the year 1985 CE. Pre-pottery Neolithic period, circa 6500 BCE. Jordan Archaeological Museum, Amman, Jordan...

The Egyptian deity Serapis, with a modius on the head, is depicted as Pluto. Next to him stands the three-headed dog Cerberus, guardian of Hades and the Greek underworld. From the Roman Villa of Chiragan, France. (Musée des Antiques de Toulouse...