Empress Theodora

Empress Theodora and Hürrem Sultan

© Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Santorini, Greece

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Archaeological Museum of Istanbul.

From Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), Turkey

This fresco is a classic example of Roman wall painting from the 1st century AD, belonging to the "Fourth Pompeian Style" (c. 50–79 AD), characterized by fantastical architectural elements such as columns and elaborate ornamentation set against vividly colored backgrounds, in this case a deep Pompeian red.

Alexander: The Making of a God (Netflix, 2024)

Ethiopian's head and female Greek head, with a kalos inscription. Attic janiform red-figure aryballos, ca. 520–510 BC. From Greece.

Columns and ruins at Ephesus, Turkey

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Rome, Italy

EMPRESSES OF ROME: Julio-Claudian Dynasty

Fourth floor: mud bricks from the first years of the Republic of Turkey.

Library Of Celsus, Ephesus, Anatolia, Turkey

Mummy portraits of Egyptians from the Roman period, 1st-2nd centuries AD

“Small Knife with Sheath” The Ottoman Empire, 18th century. Material: steel, silver, bone, horn, mother-of-pearl, enamel [1359x1920]