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Detail from the map “Bosporus, Maeotis, Iberia, Albania et Sarmatia Asiatica “ by CHRISTOPHORUS CELLARIUS (1638-1707), from the book “Notitiae Orbis Antiqui sive Geographiae Plenioris Tomus Alter Asiam et Africam“, printed in Leipzig by Gleditschi...

Bust of Ptolemy I Soter, king of Egypt (305 BC–282 BC) and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The identification is based upon coin effigies.

Protective spirit (one of a pair) in the guise of a royal figure with cloak and mantle. It guarded the doorway into the Temple of Ninurta (chief god of the city of Nimrud and Assyrian god of war and farming) in Nimrud. The temple itself was...

A statue of Boudicca on her chariot, close to the Houses of Parliament, London.

Portrait of Ptolemy XII from the Louvre, Paris.

From Uruk, southern Iraq Third Dynasty of Ur, about 2100-2000 BC. The king as a temple builder with a basket of earth to make bricks. This bronze figure represents Ur-Nammu, the ruler of Ur (about 2112-2095 BC). It was made for burial...

Belisarius may be this bearded figure on the right of Emperor Justinian I in the mosaic in the Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, which celebrates the reconquest of Italy by the Byzantine army under the skillful leadership of Belisarius. The...

The Battle of Zama (202 BCE) - Roman and Carthaginian troop deployment.

A stone statue of Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (reigned 1479–1458 BC, 18th Dynasty).

Flavius Anastasius Paulus Probus Sabinianus Pompeius (consul 517 CE) in consular garb, holding a sceptre and the mappa, a piece of cloth used to signal the start of chariot races at the Hippodrome. Ivory panel from his consular diptych.