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Crannog, Loch Tay, Scotland
Image by Val Vanet

Crannog, Loch Tay, Scotland

The Crannog centre on Loch Tay near Kenmore recreates an ancient Crannog, which was a wooden structure built out on a man-made island in a lake and connected to the shore by a narrow, and easily defensible, causeway.
The Queen of The Night Relief
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

The Queen of The Night Relief

This large plaque was made of baked straw-tempered clay, modeled in high relief. The figure of the curvaceous naked woman was originally painted red; note the trace of the red color on her left wrist. She wears the horned headdress characteristic...
Assyrian Military Campaign in Southern Iraq
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Assyrian Military Campaign in Southern Iraq

This wall panel was part of large alabaster wall relief. The whole scene includes a central band of river, the Tigris or Euphrates, that separates two otherwise independent compositions in which the Assyrians attack on a small island and...
Assyrian Military Campaign in Southern Iraq
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Assyrian Military Campaign in Southern Iraq

This wall panel was part of a large alabaster wall relief. The Assyrian king in a chariot (who is noy shown) watches as prisoners are brought in, and heads and booty are piled-up in a palm grove. In Assyrian literature, beheaded bodies refer...
Faravahar at Persepolis
Image by Napishtim

Faravahar at Persepolis

Stone carved Faravahar in Persepolis. Faravahar is one of the best-known symbols of Zoroastrianism, the state religion of ancient Iran.
Chichen Itza
Image by Dennis Jarvis

Chichen Itza

The Castillo pyramid at the Maya (and possibly later Toltec) centre of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. The pyramid was a temple built in honour of the Maya feathered-serpent god Kukulkan.
Attila the Hun [Artist's Impression]
Image by Conifer Games

Attila the Hun [Artist's Impression]

Modern artist's impression of what Attila the Hun may have looked like.
Roman City under Attack
Image by Conifer Games

Roman City under Attack

This is a modern watercolour sketch of how a Roman city under attack may have looked like.
Bronze Zhou Cooking Vessel
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Bronze Zhou Cooking Vessel

A Western Zhou ceremonial bronze of cooking-vessel form inscribed to record that the King of Zhou gave a fiefdom to Shi You, ordering that he inherit the title as well as the land and people living there. Bronze Gui of Shi You (food container...
Zakros Minoan Site
Image by Jenny Hemming

Zakros Minoan Site

Archaeological site at Zakros, Crete.
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