Images

Detail from lateral walls of the Tomb of the Diver depicting a symposium scene. The frescoes are painted on limestone slabs and are dated about 480-470 BCE. National Museum of Paestum, Italy.

Cave Cavem mosaic from Pompeii. It is on display at the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

This is an inscribed sun-dried brick used in temple construction. It was commissioned by the Sumerian king Amar-Suen (reigned c. 2094-2038 BCE) of the Third Dynasty of Ur. Translation of the inscription: Amar-Suen, the one called by (the...

A relief of servants from the palace of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin (present-day Khorsabad, Iraq), c. 713-716 BCE. Now in the Musee du Louvre, Paris.

Urartu during the reign of King Rusas, 714-715 BCE

Howard Carter (1874-1939), British Egyptologist and archaeologist, photographed on 8 May 1924.

The pyramid structures of Xochicalco in central Mexico. Constructed prior to 900 CE they display attributes common to Maya and Veracruz architecture and imagery.

The ballcourt of Xochicalco, central Mexico. Constructed prior to 900 CE.

Sargon II (r. 722-705 BCE), one of the most important kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and founder of the Sargonid Dynasty, with a dignitary on a low-relief from the left wall of the palace of Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria, now Khorsabad...

A detail of the pyramid platform known as the 'Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent', Xochicalco, central Mexico. The four walls of the structure have relief carvings which include large feathered serpents and they form a four-sided open enclosure...