Images

Gerard David, The Judgement of Cambyses, 1498 CE, Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium. This diptych shows a scene from Herodotus's Histories: the arrest and flaying of the Persian judge Sisamnes, who was a corrupt judge, by order of Cambyses...

Bust of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius from the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, 138-161 CE.

Extracts of satellite images from Google Earth and Bing of kites from the Harrat-al-Sham in Jordan (above left), Qaratein area in Syria (above right), Ustyurt Plateau in Kazakhstan (bottom left) and the mountains of Palmyre in Syria (bottom...

Desert kites on the Ustyurt Plateau (left) and in the northern Nefoud (right).

The geographical distribution of desert kites (updated June 2020 CE).

A cell at the extremity of a pointed appendice from a kite in Armenia (up). The same configuration in Jordan, a cell under excavation (down).

Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) was an Italian painter of the Verismo style. This romantic painting shows what the excavation of Pompeii in the 19th century may have looked like.

A detail from a bronze statue of an athlete wearing a laurel crown of victory, 340-330 BCE. Found in the sea off Marathon. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

A marble figurine from the Cycladic islands, 2800-2300 BCE, depicting a flute or aulos player. It is one of the earliest representations of a musician in sculpture from the Bronze Age Aegean. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens).

The Boxers Fresco from Bronze Age Akrotiri on the island of Thera (Santorini), c. 1700 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)