Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome (Images)

Ziggurat at Ur

Head of a Composite Statue of a Woman

Warka Vase from the Inanna Temple Complex

Statuettes of Worshipers from the Square Temple

Entrance (Dromos) to a Tomb at the Ur Cemetery

Great Lyre from the Death Put of the Tomb of Meskalamdug

Royal Standard of Ur from Tomb 779

Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II

Assyrian Archers Pursuing Enemies from the Relief from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II

Assyrians Besieging a Fort from the Relief from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II

Lion Hunt (detail showing a lion springing towards the chariot of Ashurbanipal)

The Ishtar Gate

Lion from the Procession War from the Palace of Nebchadnezzar II

Apadana of the Palace

Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure

Seated Stature of Khafre from Gizeh

Menkaure and Khamerernebty (?) from Gizeh

Tomb of Ti

Hippopotamus Hunt from the Tomb of Ti

Goat treadings seed and cattle fording a canal from Tomb of TI

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut as Osiris from the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut with offering jars from the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Temple of Amen-Re

Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Amen-Re

Tomb of Tutankhamen

Death mask of Tutankhamen, from the innermost coffin of Tutankhamen from the Tomb of Tutankhamen

Painted Chest from the Tomb of Tutankhamen

Kouros, Attica

Kroisos, Anavysos

Ex-Peplos Kore from the Acropolis

Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game

Euthymides, Three Revelers

Euphronios, Death of Sarpdon

Zeus (or Poseidon?), from the sea off Cape Artemision

Polykleitos, Doryphoros

Iktinos and Kallikrates from the Parthenon in the Acropolis

Panathenaic Festival Procession Frieze from the Parthenon in the Acropolis

Phidia, Athena Perthenos from the Parthenon in the Acropolis

Kallikrates from the Temple of Athena Nike from the Parthenon in the Acropolis

Nike adjusting her sandal, from the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis

Grave Stele of Hegeso

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoon and his Sons

Temple of Portunus

Man with Portraits of His Ancestors

Augustus as Imperator, from the Villa of Livia at Primaporta

Forum

Basilica

Amphitheater

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

Trajan as Imperator from Ostia

Forum of Trajan

Column of Trajan from the Forum of Trajan

Pantheon

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

Baths of Caracalla