World History Archive May 2016 59-69

Granodiorite Sarcophagus lid; Persian, male figure wearing a fringed Persian robe. The owner lived during the second Persian occupation of Egypt. The...

Altarpiece by the Master of Estopanya; Italian painter, active in Aragon and Catalonia, around the second half of the XIV century. Around 1350-1370. T...

Altarpiece by the Master of Estopanya; Italian painter, active in Aragon and Catalonia, around the second half of the XIV century. Around 1350-1370. T...

Altarpiece by the Master of Estopanya; Italian painter, active in Aragon and Catalonia, around the second half of the XIV century. Around 1350-1370. T...

Seal from Mojendro Daro, Indus Valley, Harappa period, ca. 2500 B.C.

Seal from Mojendro Daro, Indus Valley, Harappa period, ca. 2500 B.C.

Temple accounts dealing with receipts and expenditure of corn. 42nd year of Shulgi, 3rd Dynasty of Ur, Assyrian, Iraq. Shulgi of Ur was the second kin...

Specimen of early Chinese writing characters engraved on a bone. Sang Period 1000-1500 BC, Hunan Province

Jaume Cascalls Active 1341-1377 AD. Head of Christ 1352. alabaster with remains of polychrome; from the San Corpus Christi chapel, of the convent of S...

Jaume Cascalls Active 1341-1377 AD. Head of Christ 1352. alabaster with remains of polychrome; from the San Corpus Christi chapel, of the convent of S...

Jaume Cascalls Active 1341-1377 AD. Head of Christ 1352. alabaster with remains of polychrome; from the San Corpus Christi chapel, of the convent of S...

Head made from clay, painted to represent an ancestor figure. Papua New Guinea 1912

A treaty between Athens and Rhegion, made before 440 BC. When the treaty was renewed in the Archonship of Apseudes 433/432BC, the preamble in the firs...

Relief showing hunting. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, Iraq, North Palace. panel comes from a corridor which led to a postern-gate out of th...

Relief showing hunting. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, Iraq, North Palace. panel comes from a corridor which led to a postern-gate out of th...

Relief showing hunting. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, Iraq, North Palace. panel comes from a corridor which led to a postern-gate out of th...

Relief showing hunting. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, Iraq, North Palace. panel comes from a corridor which led to a postern-gate out of th...

Relief showing Lion hunt on horseback. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace, Iraq. King Ashurbanipal drives his spear into one lion's...

Relief showing Lion hunt on horseback. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace, Iraq.

Relief showing Lion hunt on horseback. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace, Iraq.

Relief showing Ashurbanipal rescues foreign princes from a 1ion. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace, Iraq. The figures on the right...

John Armstrong (1893 - 1973) Lapping Waters, 1944 Tempera on panel. With Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore, Armstrong was...

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) Oxenbridge Pond, 1928 Oil on canvas

Sarah Thorley. Cleaning Performance, 2015; Photographic print, 9 cleaning cloths & performance. Sarah Thorley's work explores the politics of labour a...

Lisa Marie Williams 'Paroxetine', 2014; Steel, timber, human hair, nylon, cotton, recycled shoes, floor lamp. Lisa Marie Williams' sculptures visually...

Lisa Marie Williams 'Paroxetine', 2014; Steel, timber, human hair, nylon, cotton, recycled shoes, floor lamp. Lisa Marie Williams' sculptures visually...

Emmy Bridgwater (1906 - 1999); Night Work is about to Commence; 1940 - 1943. Oil on board. a raven perches on the edge of a bath tub that is also a bo...

Jewellery buried with a woman. From the Anglo-Saxon, Beckford grave; part of the Staffordshire Hoard, excavated at Beckford, Worcestershire, in the 19...

Barclay's & Co. cheque London, 1793. Cheques and bills of exchange provided a secure way to transfer money between individuals without having to carry...

The King's Mother Tasherenese 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis (570-526 BC), Granodiorite, Egypt

The King's Mother Tasherenese 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis (570-526 BC), Granodiorite Egypt

The King's Mother Tasherenese 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis (570-526 BC), Granodiorite, Egypt

Stroud, Gloucestershire (UK), 2011. The Stroud pound used a system known as demurrage, which meant notes would lose 3% of their value every six months...

Emily Sparkes. 'An Ode to Christian Joy', 2013. Oil on canvas. Emily Sparkes' paintings are influenced by 1970s British Glam aesthetics and Victorian...

Anglo Saxon, Pectoral cross which hung around the neck of a high-ranking churchman, noble, king or queen. 687 AD.

The Millennium Chapel, Coventry Cathedral, England 1998. Here is a special place to pray for prisoners of conscience, those who have been imprisoned b...

Anglo Saxon metalwork; 5th-6th Century AD. Pair of mounts, decorated with cloisonne

Anglo Saxon metalwork; 5th-6th Century AD. Pair of eye-shaped mounts, decorated with cloisonne garnets

Anglo Saxon metalwork; 5th-6th Century AD. Slotted strips, decorated with cloisonne garnets and small filigree panels

Anglo Saxon metalwork; 5th-6th Century AD. Slotted strips, decorated with cloisonne garnets and small filigree panels These strips share the same cloi...

Anglo Saxon metalwork; 5th-6th Century AD. Slotted strips, decorated with cloisonne garnets and small filigree panels These strips share the same cloi...

Paesaggio Tragico, 1945 Oil on canvas by Merlyn Evans 1910-1973. In 1942, Evans enlisted with the Royal Engineers and served with the Eighth Army in N...

Emily Sparkes 'Someone scrawled on the walls 'I smell the blood of the les Tricoteuses', 2015 Oil on canvas. 'les Tricoteuses', meaning knitting women...

Shield with a fist of young men enrolled as Ephebes, at Athens, Greece; about AD 200, with Alkamenes as trainer. Athenians are listed first in tribes,...

Paul Feiler 1918-2013. Porthledden, 1958. Oil on hardboard. Porthledden is part of Cornwall, in South West England.

Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942) Dieppe Races, c.1920, Oil on canvas

Paul Nash (1889- 1946) Landscape of the Moon's First Quarter, 1943. Oil on canvas. painting based on the view from the artist s house at Boar's Hill,...

Anwar Jalal Shemza 1928-1985, The wall 1958-1985, Oil on board.

James Turner, John Millais, 2013 Lightbox, print. re-animated version of a painting by John Millais, called 'The Blind Girl' (1856).

Jennifer Shufflebotham 'Preparing to Dive Sandgate and Wigwam, Whitstable', 2014. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 'Preparing to Dive Sandgate and Wigwam Wh...