Images

The ‘Hestia Giustiniani’ - a standing female with a veiled head and austere peplos dress - identified as Hestia but perhaps Hera or Demeter. The figure, standing 1.9 metres (ft) tall, is a copy of an original made around 470 BCE (Villa Albani...

The 12 Olympian gods of ancient Greece. Top row left to right: Zeus, Athena, Hera, Apollo. Middle row left to right: Demeter, Artemis, Hermes, Hephaistos Bottom row left to right: Aphrodite, Dionysos, Poseidon, Ares. All images by...

Ruins of a Byzantine basilica at Sabratha, west of Tripoli.

A wall painting from Pompeii showing a procession of magistrates all wearing their purple-edged togas, the toga praetexta. (Murecine building, 1st century CE)

Roman fresco depicting a swan in the tablinum of the House of Fortune in Carthago Nova (modern-day Cartagena), a city on the southern Iberian Peninsula, Spain. The house dates to the late 1st century BCE and was occupied until the late 2nd...

Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493 CE).

View of the four-colonnaded atrium of the Villa San Marco in Stabiae, Italy (1st century BCE). The tetrastyle atrium was entered through a small colonnaded and frescoed portico furnished with masonry seats for waiting visitors. Looking across...

This is the recto of a double hymn, written on papyrus, with double vowels for musical purposes. This one mentions the Baptism of Jesus in Jordan. The order of the words follows the gospel of John. From Egypt, precise provenance is unknown...

This papyrus scroll is written in the Greek language and mentions a list of farmers; the number and size of land given to them were mentioned. In addition, the list also included fishermen, flute players, threshers, millers, sheep breeders...

This limestone fragment (ostracon) is written with a Coptic script about the dispute of the church father Kyrill. From Thebes, Egypt. Byzantine Period, 4th to 7th century CE. (The Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany).