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Hephaistos Riding a Mule
An Attic krater showing Hephaistos riding a mule. 550-500 BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Agrigento, Sicily)

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London Mithraeum Museum
The London Mithraeum Museum over the Mithraeum ruins dating from c. 240 - 4th century CE. The ruin is now on display in its original location in the City of London.

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London Tauroctony
The Tauroctony depicting Mithras slaying the bull. The relief was found at the Walbrook site and is now on display at the Museum of London. Dating from ca. 240 - ca. 4th century CE.

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Kannada Inscription of Dhruva
Old Kannada inscription (780 CE) of Rashtrakuta King Dhruva Dharavarsha, Naregal, India.
Ref source: Epigraphia Indica and Record of the Archæological Survey of India, Volume 6, (1900), pp.162-163

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Jain Narayana Temple
Jain Narayana temple, Pattadakal, India, constructed by the Rashtrakuta Dynasty in the 9th century CE.

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Harpies Attack King Phineus
A red-figure krater showing a scene where harpies attack King Phineus. Attica, c. 450 BCE.
Archaeological Museum, Ferrara.

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Parthian Cataphract
Baked clay perforated plaque showing a heavily armoured horseman (cataphract) wearing scale or lamellar armour and a "coal skuttle" helmet, spearing a lion.
3rd century BCE - 2nd century CE
British Museum

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Harper from the Tomb of Paätenemheb
Tomb of Paätenemheb, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

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Harper's Song from the Tomb of Intef
This 18th-Dynasty papyrus contains a collection of literary texts. On the recto is a series of love songs, comprising a first cycle (1.1-4.1), a second cycle (4.1-6.2) followed by the Harpist's Song from the mansion of Intef (6.2-7.3), a...

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Egyptian Harper
A mural of a blind musician playing a harp, from the tomb of the ancient Egyptian scribe called Nakht. c. 1422-1411 BCE