Egypt
Greece
Etruscan
Rome

Ancient Art
10,000 BC to 300 AD

Introduction

Ancient Egyptian Art, Mummies, and Artifacts

Egypt on Tour

Pyramids and Sphinx

Luxor and Karnak

Abu Simbel

 

Antique postcards from the land of the Pharaohs, organized into a tour of the major Egyptian monuments, tombs, and temples as one flies up the Nile in a U2 tourist airplane loaned by the United States government just to help you get around.

 

Miscellaneous Middle and Near Eastern Antiquities

 

Assyrian [Modern Northern Palistine and Northern Iraq]	Lion Hunt about 650 BC [From the North Palace, Nineveh] relief sculpture; detail about h 38 cm British Museum, London, England
	Winged Bull Palace of Sennacherib about 700 BC	Gilgamesh Relief Facade about 710 BC
Hittite [Modern Central Turkey]
	Lion's Gate about 1600 BC [In the capitol of the Hittite Empire] Hattusas, Turkey
	Long Spouted Clay Jug about 1900 bc from Kultepe, Turkey clay with red-brown glaze h 15 5/8" Archaeological Museum Ankara, Turkey	Hittite Pantheon Figurines about 800 bc from Carchemish Carved in Steatite & Lapis Lazuli mounted in Gold; greatest h 5/8" British Museum London, England
	Relief Depicting a Sceen from King Arara's Procession about 900 BC from Carchemish	Relief of a Mother Suckling a Child about 800 BC Karatepe, Turkey
Fertile Crescent [Modern Lebenon, Syria and Iraq]	Akkad Cylinder Seal and its Imprint about 2100 BC black steatite, cir 3.2 cm Hermitage St Petersberg, Russia
	Summerian Scenes of War from Ur about 3500 to 2340 BC Mosaic — shell, stone, and lapis lazuli afixed to wood. British Museum London, England
Scythian [Northern Black Sea to the Caucasus Mts.]	Gold Pectoral about 350 BC from near Kiev Historical Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
	Gold Comb about 400 BC {from Northern Black Sea Coast) gold; h 12 cm Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia	Gold Deer Plaque about 500 BC {from Northern Black Sea Coast) gold; len 32 cm Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia
	Gold Case for Bow and Arrows about 350 BC {from Northern Black Sea Coast) gold; len 47 cm Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia	Gold Panther Plaque about 625 BC {from Northern Black Sea Coast) gold; len 33 cm Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia
	Hun? Belt Buckle about 550 BC gold; 8×5 cm Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia Sycthians were noted for their gold workmanship, but modern scholars generally believe that their gold craftsmen came from Greece on the basis of style and technique. This Hun belt buckle provides an interesting contrast because the workmanship is inferior to the other items above.
Siberian	Terminals for a Staff about 550 BC {from Central Siberia) bronze; h 19 cm Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia	Terminal for a Staff [Gryphon with a Stag head in its mouth] (from Southern Siberia) wood & leather; h 27 cm about 550 BC Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia
	Swan Stuffed Icon about 350 BC felt stuffed with horse hair;183×200 cm Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia	Herse about 350 BC all wood construction; h 300 cm Hermitage, St Petersberg, Russia
	Note that felt and wood items amost never survive this long; however these items were found in a desert grave (fifth Pazyryk burial mound, Altai region; Southern Siberia excavated c1950) where the lack of humidity has preserved them for us to marvel at. The herse was disassembled in the grave and has been reassembled for display.

 

 

Greek Antiquities

Visit the Greek Artifacts and Culture Gallery

Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

Etruscan
Fresco of a Woman Drinking Wine	Girl with a Snake about 100 BC	Bronze Dancer about 600 BC
Visit the Etruscan gallery to see 16 more Etruscan artifacts.
Roman
Marcellus about 1 AD	Hadrian 117 AD
Visit the Roman galleries to see many more Roman art and artifacts.

Egypt
Greece
Etruscan
Rome