SPL RF Oct 2023

Cippus of Horus or Heru. Horus is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably god of kingship and the...

Carving of the God Aten and King Aken-aten. From 'Myths and legends: ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence (1910).

Illustration of a Hispaniolan macaw (Ara tricolor), also known as the Cuban macaw or Cuban red macaw.

Stele (stone slab) with the Grant of Privileges to Ritti-Marduk by Nebuchadrezzar I. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence...

Illustration of the Mother-goddess Ishtar by Evelyn Paul. Inanna is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex, war, justice an...

Assyrian rock sculpture. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence (1916).

Assyrian statue of Gilgamesh found at Khorsabad. Gilgamesh was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh,...

Statue of Nebo, son of Merodach, God of wisdom and literacy, and the inventor of writing. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Sp...

Illustration of a hall in the Assyrian Palace by Sir Henry Layard. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence (1916).

Assur-nazir-pal (Ashurnasirpal) attended by a winged mythological being. Bas-relief from the north-western palace at Nimrud. From 'Myths and legends o...

Eagle-headed mythological being. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence (1916).

Bas-relief of a royal hunt. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence (1916).

Map of the excavations in Babylonia and Assyria. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence (1916).

Illustration of the Palaces of Nimrud by James Ferguson. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence (1916).

Plan of Nineveh (Nippur). From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence (1916).

Excavated ruins of Babylon. From 'Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence (1916).

Pyramid of the capitalist system, illustration. 1911 American cartoon caricature critical of capitalism, copied from a Russian flyer of c. 1901. The g...

Gentian flower, illustration. From Sketchbook No. 13 - Water-color sketches of plants of North America and Europe, Painted between June 1888 to Septem...

Flower, illustration. From Sketchbook No. 13 - Water-color sketches of plants of North America and Europe, Painted between June 1888 to September 1910...

Asclepias sp. flower, illustration. From Sketchbook No. 13 - Water-color sketches of plants of North America and Europe, Painted between June 1888 to...

Flower, illustration. From Sketchbook No. 13 - Water-color sketches of plants of North America and Europe, Painted between June 1888 to September 1910...

Bird-of-paradise (Strelitzia sp.) flower, illustration. From Sketchbook No. 18 - Fruits and Flowers of Bermuda by Helen Sharp (1892-1903).

Illustration of Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), French explorer, by Theophile Hamel, circa 1844.

Illustration of Jean Chardin (1643-1713), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-vo...

Illustration of a mascarene parrot, or mascarin, (Mascarinus mascarinus), an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Reu...

Illustration of a broad-billed parrot by Henrik Gronvold. The broad-billed parrot or raven parrot (Lophopsittacus mauritianus) is a large extinct parr...

Illustration of the mythological Interchange of 'Macrocosm' and 'Microcosm'. From An encyclopaedia of occultism: a compendium of information on the oc...

Magical Diagrams and Requisites. Illustration from An encyclopaedia of occultism: a compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personali...