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Aurochs from Ishtar Gate at Babylon, constructed in about 575 BCE by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II. On display in Istanbul Archaeology Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.

A door pivot stone from Telloh (ancient Girsu), third millennium BCE. Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

This small building sits high above the great Ball Court at Chichen Itza and has been identified as a temple from which the priests and royalty would watch the game of Pok-a-Tok played below them.

This photo, taken in July of 2005, shows the least often photographed side of the famous El Castillo, also known as The Temple of Kukulcan. Most photographs are taken from the opposite side which has been extensively restored and where people...

The ruins of the Maya city of Tikal in what is now northern Guatemala.

On the eve of the Roman Conquest, the south-east was dominated completely by the Catuvellauni. They, if any, could claim the legendary High Kingship of Britain. As well as having conquered the Cantiaci, the Trinovantes, and the Atrebates...

Rome maintained trading and political links of a sort with the Britons, and were able to observe the slow coalescence of the south-east towards the creation of a unified kingdom. The Catuvellauni, who had already proved themselves to be...

When Julius Caesar landed on the Kent coast in 55 BC, he had a basic knowledge of what to expect of the south-eastern Britons from his dealings with their close relatives on the Continent. What he wasn't prepared for was the English Channel...

A model of the Ishtar Gate built in c. 575 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon, displayed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

A Babylonian mušḫuššu dragon, glazed tiles from the Ishtar Gate, which was constructed by Nebuchadnezzar II, c. 575 BCE. Istanbul Archaeological Museums.