Images

Bust of Antinous, 130-140 CE, from Rome. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

Title page from 1594 edition of Diogenes Laërtius' "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers."

Bust of Antisthenes from the Pushkin Museum, Moscow

This commemorative basalt stele depicts the Assyrian king Esarhaddon worshiping gods and symbols of gods. The king's left hand holds a royal mace and two ropes. These ropes pass through the lips of two captives. The kneeling smaller figure...

A major Buddhist stupa located in Boudhanath, roughly 11 km from Kathmandu, Nepal. This stupa is one of the largest Stupas in the world, built on an ancient trade route linking Tibet with the Kathmandu Valley.

Two gold solidus coins depicting Roman emperor Valens, r. 364-378 BCE. Provenance: north-west France. (Vannes Archaeological Museum, France)

A gold bead from the dolmen d'Er Roh, La Trinite Sur Mer, France, 2200-2000 BCE. Vannes Archaeological Museum, France.

Egyptian sarcophagus of Ankh-ef-Khons, a priest of Thebes. Wood, 945-712 BCE. (Vannes Archaeological Museum, France)

Painting by Laurits Tuxen showing a Christian Bishop displacing an image of the pagan Slavic deities during the Christianisation process of the Slavic culture. Most the Slavic mythology and lore was lost during this time.

The Defeat of Sennacherib, Peter Paul Rubens, 1612 CE, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.