other pictures

Africano (or Lucullan) Marble from Asia Minor

A fertile mountain plain between Savsat and Ardahan

Alabastro onice from the Valley of the Nile

Amber

The Amsterdam Caesar Codex

Apparatus criticus of the prologue of the Gospel of John.

Archimedes' Screw (Boerhaave Museum, Leiden)

Armenian manuscript with Coptic Refutations of the Decisions of the Council of Chalcedon

Figurine of Artemis of Ephesus

Avar collier

Avar-Slav belt (reconstruction)

Avar-Slav brooche

Avar-Slav stirrup

Seventeenth-century engraving, showing the story of the Bull of Zaandam

Banyan tree (Palermo)

Bardiglio (Carrara) Marble from northwestern Italy (Rome, Palatine)

Beatus Rhenanus

Ancient/Medieval fantasy creatures: Blemmyes, sciopod, cyclops

Bigio Morato Marble from Anatolia (Rome, Palatine)

Charlemagne

Coat of arms of Saint-Augustine (Florida)

Codex of Justinian (Librije, Zutphen)

A "Sidonian bottle" of amber-colored glass

Gallic "black" glass

Colored glass: blue

The natural color of glass is blue-green

Green goblet with a circus scene

Colored glass: light green

Palestinian purple glass

A red-colored dish

A "Sidonian bottle", colored white

Copper ore

A modern Persian carpet showing Cyrus the Great, seen in Tehran.

Dacian sica

Delphinium Parishii

Demetrius I of Bactria

Demetrius I of Bactria

A densimeter

Erasmus (Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands)

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

A dromedary and its child, two hours old.

Early Bronze Age Flachbeil

Eucratides I of Bactria

Eucratides I of Bactria

Eucratides II of Bactria

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 01: The Yamnaya Culture

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 02: The Usatovo expansion

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 3: Disappearance of Passive Voice endings with /r/

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 4: Case Endings on /m/ replace /bh/

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 5: Sibilars for Velars in Certain Forms

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 6: Prefix /e/ in Past Tenses

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 7 Perfect Tense:Used as General Past Tense

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 08: Feminine Nouns with Masculine Suffixes

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 9: Western and Northern Expansion

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 10: Andronovo Expansion

Expansion of the Indo-European Languages 11: The Indo-Iranian Languages

Family Tree of the Indo-European Languages

Glass sand

Marmor Lunensis (Carrara Marble) from northwestern Italy

Gypsum

Haematite

Heraclius and Khusrau

The Hermannsdenkmal, a nineteenth-century German monument to commemorate the victory in the Teutoburg Forest

Hygeia on a bronze plaque

Lion-shaped Indian capital from the age of Ashoka

Iron ore

Konrad Peutinger

Macedonian phalanx

Manganese ore

Twelfth-century manuscript of a seventh-century Armenian translation of Euclid's Elements

Manuscript of Ovid's Metamorphoses with a picture of Cadmus

Manuscript of the "History of the Armenians" by Moses of Chorene

Marble Quarry

Theodor Mommsen

Mountain Crystal

A murex shell

Sculpture of Nigeria's Nok culture, sixth century BCE

Obsidian

Oil shale

Number of lines of the Periochae

Peutinger Map, Judaea

"Deserted and inhabitable fields because of water shortage"

Peutinger map: Noviomagus, Arenacum, Ceuclum

The plalanx at Marathon

Phalanx supported by light-armed troops

Oblique phalanx

Philip's phalanx

Hellenistic phalanx

Phosphate

Porfido Nero from the Mons Porphyrites in Egypt (Rome, Palatine)

Portasanta Marble from Chios

Potash

Purple heron

The relation between Q and the gospel of Mark (up) as sources of Matthew and Luke (down).

Manuscript of the Quran with red dots to vocalize the text

Granito Rosso (or Pink Granite) from Aswan in Egypt

Sahara: climate and art styles

Santa Claus, by F.O.C. Darley (1862)

Seriation of Bronze Age axes

Statue of Apollo from Dacia

Stemma of the main manuscripts of Herodotus' Histories

Strata of Roman Law

The great floods

Urnfield helmet

Varus' suicide, shown in the Walhalla (Regensburg)

Veleda, shown in the Walhalla (Regensburg)

War elephant

Tree rings from the Viking settlement at Haithabu

Woolley's excavations at Ur

Modern portrait of Zarathustra, inspired by Ahuramazda's dress on a relief of Taq-e Bostan.

Zoilus of Bactria