Images

Millet was a cereal widely used in the ancient world.

This is a side panel of the Alexander Sarcophagus, a stone sarcophagus adorned with bas-relief carvings of Alexander the Great from the 4th century BCE. Discovered in Sidon, Lebanon and residing in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum today.

Two high archaic kouroi, inscribed as Cleobis and Biton. c.580 BCE. These kouroi are over-life-size, standing at 6.5m tall, and are currently housed at the Delphi Museum. The sculptor was Polymides of Argos.

A bust of Zeno of Citium. Found in 1823 CE near the Jardin des Plantes and the ampitheatre. Esperandieu, 1768 CE.

A map showing the Hittite Empire in c. 1350-1300 BCE (dark green line) and at its maximum extent (light green area).

A portrait of the Greek Cynic philosopher Crates of Thebes by an unknown painter from the circle of Domenico Feti.

A bronze statue, likely of a Spartan woman. c. 500 BCE. (British Museum, London)

Axe heads of jadeite and eclogite from the neolithic site of Carnac, north-west France. (Archaeological Museum of Carnac)

A variscite necklace from the Neolithic site of Carnac, north-west France. (Archaeological Museum of Carnac)

Attila and his Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts; detail from the library of the Palais Bourbon in Paris.