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Head of a Bodhisattva, Pakistan or Afghanistan Gandharan region 4th-6th century CE. Stucco with traces of pigment. (The Art Institute of Chicago).

A marble head of a figurine from Iraq, 3rd Millennium BCE. (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).

A column capital in the form of a bull-man from the Tripylon, Persepolis, Achaemenid Period, Reign of Xerxes 486-465 BCE. (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)

A girl in traditional costume from Kalash valley, Chitral, Pakistan. Kalasha tribe is the sole pagan tribe of Pakistan.

Head of the 'cow goddess' Hathor, 1417-1379 BCE. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

A marble bust of Roman Emperor Caracalla, 215-217 CE (Capotoline Museum, Rome)

A marble representation of the Roman Emperor Otho, 69 CE. (Louvre, Paris)

Known as the Antikythera Ethebe, the statue is one of the very few surviving ancient Greek bronzes and is a masterpiece of Greek Classical sculpture (c. 340 BCE) The statue may represent either Hercules holding the apples of the Hesperides...

An engraved gold ring from the Minoan civilization on Crete, 15-14th century BCE. The ring probably originates from Knossos and depicts the epiphany of a goddess: seated in a shrine, floating in the air and standing in a boat. The hoop is...

Colonnade with canal in the foreground, temple of Ba'al (1st-2nd century CE), Palmyra, Syria.