Images

The gold revetment of a bronze Mycenaean sword. Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

A stone anchor from a Greek sailing vessel, Piraeus. (Archaeological Museum, Piraeus)

The tondo of a red-figure kylix depicting a Satyr riding a donkey. c. 510 BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)

Bronze Chalcidian helmet, 6th Century BCE. (Archaeological Museum, Piraeus)

A detail of a marble satyr, c. 150 BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)

An ivory statuette of Apollo Lykeios, 3rd Century BCE. The statuette was restored after being found in 200 pieces at the bottom of a well. (Agora Museum, Athens)

A perfume bottle in the form of a Greek athlete in the action of tying a victory ribbon around his head. c. 540 BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)

A Greek ivory pyxis depicting griffins attacking stags. 15th Century BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)

Aztec warriors in typical costume of elite ranks with back racks displaying group insignia. They each carry an obsidian-bladed spear. From the Codex Mendoza, folio 67. (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

An almost life-size terracotta Aztec Eagle Warrior, one of the elite warrior groups in the Aztec military. 13-15th century CE, from Tenochtitlan. (National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City)