Ancient Mystery

Isis and Serapis with body of a serpent, between them a Canopus. Greek-Roman period, 332 BCE to 395 AD. Leiden, Museum of Antiquities

Persepolis, the ancient Zoroastrian ceremonial center of the Achaemenid Empire, located in Iran

Pañamarca has impressive ruins from the Moche culture, which flourished on the northwest coast of Peru between 200 CE and 900 CE. Amazingly, many murals in Pañamarca still retain their colors, over 1,000 years after the last painter laid down his brush.  The site was deliberately buried sometime around 750 CE. And in doing so, the Moche unintentionally preserved their art for future archaeologists to discover.

Banyan Tree with an attached 16th Century Terracotta Temple, Antpur, West Bengal, India

Canopic Jars of Isetemkheb D, Chief of the Harem of Amun-Re

Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1077-943 BC.

Tethys

A gold medallion featuring a high-relief depiction of Tethys seated on a seahorse amid stylised waves, ca.300/200 BC., 7x6.5 cm, weight 25 gr

Picture of a page of a byzantine manuscript of Herodotus' Histories with marginal annotations (marginalia).

Soothsayer: Aye, Caesar, but not gone.

Bronze sword, Urnfield Culture, Central Europe, 1000 - 800 BC

Wall relief of Ramses III and baboons, mortuary temple of Ramses III, Medinet Habu, Theban Necropolis, Egypt.

Bronze sword with ivory hilt, Minoan, 1400-1300 BC

Clay loom weight decorated with an owl, Greek, 5th Century BCE