Archeological Collection (#4)

The upper part of the tomb in a pyramid shape
3507714 The upper part of the tomb in a pyramid shape; (add.info.: The upper part of the tomb in a pyramid shape. Egyptian Tu-pa-ai 18th dynasty 1700-1900BC.); Universal History Archive

Ruins of Karnak, c.1900 (photo)
8698427 Ruins of Karnak, c.1900 (photo) by Beato, Antonio (1832-1906); Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; (add.info.: Geography. Egypt. Ruins of Karnak temple)

Relief slab of mixed creature
5309753 Relief slab of mixed creature; Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Turkey; Photo © Stefano Baldini

Statue, Bidyadhari river, Kolkata, India, 2nd Century BC (terracotta)
7381577 Statue, Bidyadhari river, Kolkata, India, 2nd Century BC (terracotta); (add.info.: Chandraketugarh archaeological site); © Dilip Rajgor/Dinodia Photo

Relief from the palace showing a lion hunted to death. 2nd millennium BC
529026 Relief from the palace showing a lion hunted to death. 2nd millennium BC.; (add.info.: Nineveh ancient city of Assyria, near modern-day Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq)

Head of guardian, from the gate of Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, angkorian period, Bayon style, late 12th century, sandstone
930463 Head of guardian, from the gate of Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, angkorian period, Bayon style, late 12th century, sandstone, national museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

Lintel, from western Prasat Chikreng, Siem Reap, angkorian period, Baphuon style, 11th century, sandstone
930457 Lintel, from western Prasat Chikreng, Siem Reap, angkorian period, Baphuon style, 11th century, sandstone, national museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Photo © Stefano Baldini

Pyramids of Cheops and Cheffreu, the Sphinx and the temples of Cheffreu. 1880 (photo)
684274 Pyramids of Cheops and Cheffreu, the Sphinx and the temples of Cheffreu. 1880 (photo); (add.info.: Pyramids of Cheops and Cheffreu)

The Dyke Camp, Devil's Dyke, near Brighton, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676067 The Dyke Camp, Devil's Dyke, near Brighton, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Aerial view of the Dyke Camp, Devil's Dyke)

Gatepost holes of anti-Roman defences, The Coburn, near Lewes, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676055 Gatepost holes of anti-Roman defences, The Coburn, near Lewes, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Southern ditch and rampart, The Coburn, near Lewes, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676084 Southern ditch and rampart, The Coburn, near Lewes, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Southern ditch and rampart, The Coburn)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian and archaeologist (engraving)
8626173 Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian and archaeologist (engraving) by Maron, Anton von (1733-1808); Private Collection; (add.info.: Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768)

Stonehenge (engraving)
8677431 Stonehenge (engraving) by Dibdin, Thomas Colman (1810-93) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.); Look and Learn / Barbara Loe Collection

Babylonian lion (colour litho)
8663933 Babylonian lion (colour litho) by Heydel, Paul (1854-1935); Private Collection; (add.info.: Babylonian lion. Illustration for Der Mensch und die Erde by Hans Kraemer)

Mixing three types of wine in ancient Egypt (litho)
8663839 Mixing three types of wine in ancient Egypt (litho) by German School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mixing three types of wine in ancient Egypt)

Ruins of the Roman baths at Bath (b/w photo)
8663520 Ruins of the Roman baths at Bath (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ruins of the Roman baths at Bath, Somerset)

Town Wall, 35 and Bastion, 19, Site of Christ's Hospital, now the General Post Office (b/w photo)
8629663 Town Wall, 35 and Bastion, 19, Site of Christ's Hospital, now the General Post Office (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Town Wall)

Town Wall, 3 and Bastion, 2, Trinity Place, from a sketch of 1852 (litho)
8629658 Town Wall, 3 and Bastion, 2, Trinity Place, from a sketch of 1852 (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Town Wall, 3 and Bastion, 2, Trinity Place)

Pavement at Bank of England (colour litho)
8629644 Pavement at Bank of England (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Pavement at Bank of England)

Double Herm with heads of Silenus
7287208 Double Herm with heads of Silenus.; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Double Herm with heads of Silenus. Last quarter of the 1st century AD)

Bust of Ganymede
7287202 Bust of Ganymede; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Bust of Ganymede. Roman sculture. Vatican Museum, Chiaramonti museum, Rome, Italy); © Frank Buffetrille

Female bust. End of the 1st century AD
7287185 Female bust. End of the 1st century AD.; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Female bust. End of the 1st century AD)

Philip of Macedodia, father of Alexender the Great
7287182 Philip of Macedodia, father of Alexender the Great; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Male portrait identified as a copy of an imperial statue of Philip of Macedodia)

Portrait of Menandro. Greek dramatist
7287181 Portrait of Menandro. Greek dramatist; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Portrait of Menandro. Copy dated 2nd century AD from a greek original bronze 300 BC)

Son of Niobe fleeing
7287231 Son of Niobe fleeing; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Son of Niobe fleeing. First half of the second century AD)

Head of a Galatian
7287203 Head of a Galatian; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Head of a Galatian. Roman sculture. 2nd century AD)

Statuette of a Muse. Polyhymnia
7287256 Statuette of a Muse. Polyhymnia.; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Statuette of a Muse. Roman copy of Muses by Philiskos of Rhodes around 169 BC)

Portrait of Trajan
7287253 Portrait of Trajan; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Portrait of Trajan 1st century AD. Vatican Museum, Chiaramonti museum, Rome, Italy); © Frank Buffetrille

Statuette of Artemis
7287249 Statuette of Artemis; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Statuette of Artemis. Reproduction of a Greek original of the 3rd century BC)

The sacrifice of Isaac
7287239 The sacrifice of Isaac; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Cast of a sarcophagus with "traditio legis" in the vatican Grottoes. The sacrifice of Isaac)

Persian Warrior
7287230 Persian Warrior; Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City; (add.info.: Persian Warrior. Roman relief from the time of Hadrian of an original dated 160 - 150 AD)

Kore (or Core) with almond-eyed, 500 BC Marble sculpture from the Erechteion Temple
AIS5344219 Kore (or Core) with almond-eyed, 500 BC Marble sculpture from the Erechteion Temple (or Temple of Erechtheion or Erechtheum) Acropolis of Athens, Greece.; Acropolis, Athens

Marble bust of the Greek poet Homere dating from the 1st or 2nd century after JC (marble)
AIS5339887 Marble bust of the Greek poet Homere dating from the 1st or 2nd century after JC (marble); Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei a Baia, Bacoli, Naples, Italy; © Iberfoto

Greek art: rhyton (or rhython or rhython) in terracotta decorated with a head of a beaurus. 6th century BC
AIS5388700 Greek art: rhyton (or rhython or rhython) in terracotta decorated with a head of a beaurus. 6th century BC; Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Columns of the Temple of Diana, Evora, Portugal. 1st century
7264831 Columns of the Temple of Diana, Evora, Portugal. 1st century; Evora, Alto Alentejo, Portugal; (add.info.: Corinthian columns of the Roman temple of Evora, built around the 1st century)

Excavation of a Roman Villa 1853 - Yui Sattra Pass, Narazaki, 1853 (Watercolour)
7261317 Excavation of a Roman Villa 1853 - Yui Sattra Pass, Narazaki, 1853 (Watercolour); Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Kent

Panatenaic amphora, 400 bc (pottery)
UIG5415979 Panatenaic amphora, 400 bc (pottery); (add.info.: Black-figure decoration, depicting three athletes running in sport competition. Dated aorund 400 BC)

Relief slab of snake and eagle
5309755 Relief slab of snake and eagle; Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Turkey; Photo © Stefano Baldini

Lekane (upper part). Greek ceramics, 4th century BC. Size: 32 cm. Museo Eoliano, Lipari
BEN5472411 Lekane (upper part). Greek ceramics, 4th century BC. Size: 32 cm. Museo Eoliano, Lipari.; Photo © Raffaello Bencini

Art of Ancient Greece: Teenager's head says the blond child'. Marble sculpture, 5th century BC
BEN5468291 Art of Ancient Greece: Teenager's head says the blond child'. Marble sculpture, 5th century BC. Acropolis Museum in Athens

Representation of the legend of Daedalus and Icarus, 1887
3480502 Representation of the legend of Daedalus and Icarus, 1887; (add.info.: Representation of the legend of Daedalus and Icarus. Illustration from a publication dated 1887)

In Roman mythology, Vertumnus is the god of seasons and plat growth
3480498 In Roman mythology, Vertumnus is the god of seasons and plat growth; (add.info.: In Roman mythology, Vertumnus is the god of seasons and plat growth)

Bacchus god of wine, after a Roman statue
3480496 Bacchus god of wine, after a Roman statue; (add.info.: Bacchus god of wine, after a Roman statue. Illustration from supplement to L'antiquite expliquee et representee en figures';)

September, depicted as a man sacrificing a lizard, representing harvest
3480490 September, depicted as a man sacrificing a lizard, representing harvest; (add.info.: September, depicted as a man sacrificing a lizard, representing harvest)

February, represented as a woman symbolic of the onset of rain
3480484 February, represented as a woman symbolic of the onset of rain; (add.info.: February, represented as a woman symbolic of the onset of rain)

The upper part of the tomb in a pyramid shape
3507713 The upper part of the tomb in a pyramid shape; (add.info.: The upper part of the tomb in a pyramid shape. Egyptian Tu-pa-ai 18th dynasty 1700-1900BC.); Universal History Archive

Head of Brahma, from the gate of Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, angkorian period, Bayon style, late 12th century, sandstone
930459 Head of Brahma, from the gate of Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, angkorian period, Bayon style, late 12th century, sandstone, national museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

Head of lion, unknown provenance, angkorian period, Bayon style, 12th century, sandstone, national museum, Phnom Penh
930465 Head of lion, unknown provenance, angkorian period, Bayon style, 12th century, sandstone, national museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Photo © Stefano Baldini

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"Unveiling the Mysteries of the Past: A Journey through Archeological Wonders" Step into a world frozen in time as we explore the captivating realm of archeology. From the Stone-age cave paintings in Chauvet, France to the ancient ruins of Knossos in Greece, these remarkable sites offer us glimpses into civilizations long gone. In Chauvet, France, hidden deep within limestone caves, lies an extraordinary treasure trove. The Stone-age cave paintings transport us back thousands of years, showcasing primitive artistry and revealing insights into our ancestors' lives. These vivid depictions serve as a testament to humanity's innate desire for self-expression. Venturing further south to Crete, Greece unveils another archeological marvel - Knossos. This sprawling site unravels the enigmatic Minoan civilization with its labyrinthine palace complex and intricate frescoes adorning its walls. Walking amidst these ancient ruins is like stepping into a forgotten era where myths and legends intertwine with reality. Across oceans and continents stands Machu Picchu - "The lost city of the Inca. " Perched high atop mist-covered mountains in Peru, this awe-inspiring citadel remains shrouded in mystery even today. Its stone terraces harmoniously blend with nature's grandeur while whispering tales of an advanced civilization that once thrived here. Closer to home lies Avebury in Wiltshire; its reconstructed stone circles stand as silent guardians from prehistoric times. These colossal monuments continue to puzzle researchers who seek answers about their purpose and significance within Neolithic society. Journeying back to Peru reveals yet another architectural wonder - Hatunrumiyoc Street's Twelve Angled Stone. Witnessing this masterpiece crafted by skilled Inca stoneworkers leaves one awestruck at their precision and ingenuity. Traveling eastward brings us to Xian, Shaanxi province where the Lintong site houses the remarkable Army of Terracotta Warriors.