Images

The Persian Empire about 500 BC.

So-called “Venus de Milo” (Aphrodite from Melos). Parian marble, ca. 130-100 BC? Found in Melos in 1820. On display at the Louvre, Paris. Gift of the Marquis de Rivière to Louis XVIII of France, 1821

Plowing farmer from the burial chamber of Sennedjem, c. 1200 BCE. "Sennedjem" plowing: (1st and 2nd column in front: "Behold"-(i+Crown), "plowing-by-Hand-(earth), in Osiris's House-Two Lands(of Egypt), col 2: "Sennedjem, ..."True of Voice")-The...

Weighing of the heart scene, with Ammit, the 'Devourer of the Damned' sitting, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead of Hunefer, Egypt, 19th Dynasty. The British Museum, London.

Bronze figure of an Egyptian cat playing with one of her kittens and feeding another, Saite 26th Dynasty period (664-525 BCE). The goddess Bastet, who had a cat’s head, was one of the many gods in the polytheistic Egyptian religion and had...

Sennacherib of Assyria (reigned 704 – 681 BC) during his Babylonian war, relief from his palace in Nineveh.

Map of Phoenicia and its trade routes.

Map of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and its expansions.

A map showing the extent of Etruria and the Etruscan civilization. The map includes the 12 cities of the Etruscan League and notable cities founded by the Etruscans. Based on a map from The National Geographic Magazine Vol.173 No.6 June...

Roman Agora (believed to be) at Al Mina excavation area.