Images

Saltman no 4. Currently on display in the Zanjan Museum, Iran. (Image 6)

Saltman No. 3, currently on display in the Zanjan Museum. (Image 5)

Saltman No. 2, from the Zanjan Mine in Iran, currently on display in Zanjan Musem. (Image 4)

Saltman No. 2, currently on display in Zanjan Musem. (Image 3)

Elamite Ziggurat located in today's Khuzestan Province in Iran. It was constructed in approximately 1250 BCE in a religious city originally called Dur Untash.

Crates of Thebes by Luca Giordano, 1650 CE, Palazzo Barberini, Rome.

Ancient Egyptian depiction of an early instance of cow domestication.

Diogenes sitting in his tub. Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1860 CE)

Philip II of Macedon (reigned 359–336 BCE)

This bulbous jar dates back to the early Bronze Age, 3150-2900 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum ,Iraq).