Images

A 16-17th century CE portrait of Henry V of England (r. 1413-1422 CE). (National Portrait Gallery, London)

The bronze statue portrays a drunken elderly Satyr, lying on a rock covered with a lionskin. It adorned the swimming pool in the middle of the peristilium (four-sided colonnade with a central garden) of the Villa of the Papyri, a luxury villa...

A shop attached to the House of Neptune and Amphitrite in Herculaneum where amphorae are stored on wooden racks and on the floor beside the shop's cooking area. This is one of the best-preserved shops in Herculaneum.

Casts of skeletons discovered in the vaults on the beach of Herculaneum. Skeletons of approximately 300 people were uncovered huddled in the so-called boatsheds. The last inhabitants of Herculaneum had taken refuge in these barrel-vaulted...

Marble head of Queen Musa (also known as Thermusa, r. 2 BCE - 2 CE). National Museum of Iran.

Depiction of an Achaemenid queen. National Museum of Iran

Gold fitting depicting a woman wearing a Persian robe and diadem. 6th-4th century BCE, Iran.

Fragment of white jasper stamp seal, oval shape with one end cut off straight; engraved with a woman. Early Sassanian, 4th century CE.

View of the seafront of the Roman town of Herculaneum from the west.

View of the partially excavated Palaestra in Herculaneum which was surrounded by a portico of fluted Corinthian columns on three sides and a cryptoporticus on the north side to support the terrace above. Built during the Augustan period (27...