World History Archive May 2016 59-69

Warren Silver Cup. Roman, made about 15 BC - AD 15. found at Bittir near Jerusalem. The cup shows two male couples making love. On one side is a beard...

The royal lion hunt, Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh. North Palace, Iraq. Lions are released from cages into the arena, one by one. and men on...

The royal lion hunt, Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh. North Palace, Iraq. Lions are released from cages into the arena, one by one. and men on...

The royal lion hunt, Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh. North Palace, Iraq. Lions are released from cages into the arena, one by one. and men on...

The royal lion hunt, Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh. North Palace, Iraq. Lions are released from cages into the arena, one by one. and men on...

The royal lion hunt, Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh. North Palace, Iraq. Lions are released from cages into the arena, one by one. and men on...

The royal lion hunt, Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh. North Palace, Iraq. Lions are released from cages into the arena, one by one. and men on...

The royal lion hunt, Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh. North Palace, Iraq. Lions are released from cages into the arena, one by one. and men on...

Weimar republic, Notgeld from Hameln, Germany, 1918. Shortage of metal for coins, in Germany, after the First World War, resulted in a large number of...

Weimar republic, Notgeld from messel, Germany, 1922. Shortage of metal for coins, in Germany, after the First World War, resulted in a large number of...

Weimar republic, Notgeld from Muritz, Germany, 1921. Shortage of metal for coins, in Germany, after the First World War, resulted in a large number of...

Weimar republic, . Notgeld from Broager, Denmark (until 1920 part of Germany), 1919 . Shortage of metal for coins, in Germany, after the First World W...

50 Korun banknote; issued in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the 1960s show workers, soldiers and industrial buildings. These images were used...

Foreign exchange certificate China, 1979. Foreign exchange certificates were introduced for travellers to China, between 1979 and 1994. They acted as...

100 yuan banknote with a portrait of Mao Ze Dong, issued in China by the People's Bank of China, 1999

Roman fresco of a woman playing the lyre Roman, 50 -79 AD; From Pompeii. woman playing the kithara (a type of lyre) sits with her lover who gazes at h...

Roman fresco panel from a painted wall: Ulysses resists the songs of the Sirens Roman, about AD 50-75 From Pompeii. Ulysses is tied to the mast of his...

One hundred million billion pengd note, issued in Hungary, 1946. The largest denomination of banknote ever issued. In 1945-6 Hungary suffered severe h...

Communist Cuban banknote was introduced in 1961. emphasises revolutionary struggle to establish the regime

Communist Cuban banknote was introduced in 1961. emphasises revolutionary struggle to establish the regime

Communist Cuban banknote was introduced in 1961. emphasises revolutionary struggle to establish the regime

Communist Cuban banknote was introduced in 1961. emphasises revolutionary struggle to establish the regime

Communist Cuban banknote was introduced in 1961. emphasises revolutionary struggle to establish the regime

Communist Cuban banknote was introduced in 1961. emphasises revolutionary struggle to establish the regime

Theda Bara in the classic silent film, Cleopatra; 1917

500, 000, 000 Reichsmark banknote; Germany, 1923. The Reichsmark was devalued in when the Weimar Republic, German government, printed notes to underpi...

Satirical illustration depicting the South Sea Scheme London, 1721. Following the collapse of the South Sea Company, the effects of the company's coll...

Fragmentary wall-painting showing a pattern with visual perspective. Roman, made in Italy about 90-30 BC

Panel from a mosaic pavement: Shows a lion taunted and bound by cupids. Roman, about 70-10 BC Formerly in Naples

Fragmentary wall-painting: Showing the mask of a woman. Roman, made in Italy about 90-30 BC

wall painting of two mythological figures, found in Pompeii (20 BC - AD 50)

Fragment of a cameo glass cup Roman, about 15 BC - AD 25, by M. Perennius Tigranus, in Arezzo (Central Italy) Roman, about 25 BC - AD 15

Wall painting of a man reclining at a banquet, drinking from a horn. Roman, found near Pompeii. AD 50 79

Wall painting; portrait of a man and a woman, Roman, made about 20 BC-AD 20

Panel from a painted wall: Icarus falls to the sea Roman, about AD 50-76 From Pompeii. Icarus' father Daedalus, who made his wings, flies unaware of h...

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, with architect, Albert Speer and sculptor, Arno Breker (right), arrive in Paris following the German Invasion of Franc...

Sardonyx cameo depicting a portrait (Herakles), Roman, 1st century BC -1st century AD

Glazed stonepaste bowl. Persian, Iran, AD 1400-1500

Glazed stonepaste bowl. Persian, Iran, AD 1400-1500

Sardonyx relief depicting Nike (Victory in a chariot). Roman, 1st century BC -1st century AD

Khartoum is a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as British Gen. Charles Gordon and Laurence O...

Khartoum is a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as British Gen. Charles Gordon. based on hist...

Mahdi's camp from 'Khartoum', a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as British Gen. Charles Gor...

Roman Sardonyx cameo perhaps representing a woman of the imperial house as Diana, goddess of hunting About AD 25-50

Roman Sardonyx cameo portrait perhaps representing two women of the Roman imperial family as the goddesses Minerva and Juno About AD 54-68

top from a terracotta cinerary urn, with a figure of a reclining man, holding an embossed libation bowl. Etruscan, 200-100 BC

top from a terracotta cinerary urn, with a figure of a reclining man, holding an embossed libation bowl. Etruscan, 200-100 BC

Greek bronze disc, with a head of the sun-god Apollo Helios. 5th-3rd century BC

Greek bronze disc, with a head of the sun-god Apollo Helios. 5th-3rd century BC

Terracotta cinerary urn, with a figure of a reclining woman, on the lid and a panel on the chest. Etruscan, 100-50 BC From Chiusi