3D Images

Standing Virgin with Child, France (Normandy?) circa 1380 or early 14th Century CE. Sandstone, trace of polychromy. A cross with chevron under the crossbar is on the lining of the coat, under the right hand. Donation from the Musées Community...

A 9th Century CE epitaph commemorating a woman named Fatima, the daughter of Qasim, son of al-Husayn. The text is engraved in high relief in Arabic Kufic script. It reads: "1. In the name of God the Most Merciful, the Merciful. 2. Praise...

A statue of the Egyptian god Sobek, classically depicted with a crocodile head. Limestone. From the Temple of Amenemhet in Hawara, Egypt. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty of Egypt (1991 - 1802 BCE). (Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford...

Three Egyptian sarcophagi from the 22nd Dynasty of Egypt, 945 - 712 BCE. The sarcophagi belong to Pa-di-mut, Mut-iy-y, and Ankh-Khonsu respectively. Photogrammetry by Peter Der Manuelian. 3D modeling by Mohamed Abdelaziz. (Courtesy...

A granite statue of Ramesses III (r. 1186 - 1155 BCE) standing between the gods Horus and Set. In the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Funerary stele, about 170-190 CE, Palmyra (Tadmor), yellow limestone. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium). For more updates, please consider to follow me on Twitter at @GeoffreyMarchal. (https://twitter.com/GeoffreyMarchal...

Funerary stele of Aphtonetos Circa 145-165 CE (beginning of Hadrian’s reign). Laurion (Greece) Marble. This stele evokes an aedicule, whose architrave decorated with hememions rests on pilasters. The inscription identifies the deceased...

The Blue Mosque, also known as Sultan Ahmed Mosque, was built on the orders of Sultan Ahmed (r. 1590-1617 CE) of the Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1924 CE) from 1609 to 1616 CE in Istanbul, the Ottoman Capital (1453-1924 CE). The mosque is an architectural...

The Topkapı Palace was the palace used by the Ottoman Sultans as the administrative center of the state for 400 years of the 600 years of the Ottoman Empire in Sarayburnu, Istanbul. Around 4,000 people lived in it at the time.

Al-Aqsa Mosque (ٱلْـمَـسْـجِـد الْاَقْـصَى), “The Farthest Mosque”) is the third holiest site in Islam and is located on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was transported from the Sacred Mosque in...