Ancient art

Silver <n>Libation Vessel of Manuwai</n> from the tomb of the three foreign wives of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C.

A boy in Senegal copies the <n>Quran</n> onto a traditional wooden tablet, or <n>Lawh</n>. Photo by <n>s.vbr (sabr)</n>.

<n>Stone Circles</n> on the <n>Isle of Skye</n>, Scotland, by artist <n>Andrew Ridley</n>.

An <n>Early-stage Cuneiform Token with Counting Inscription</n> from ancient <n>Sumer</n>.

<n>Tablet with cartouche and epithets of Aten</n>, an <n>Amarna Period</n> artifact from ca. 1353–1336 BC.

<n>Teobert Maler</n> with a carved stone from the mausoleum of the high priests at <n>Chichén Itzá</n>, 1892.

A collection of shamanic <n>Symbols of the sun</n> compiled by ethnologist <n>Mihály Hoppál</n>.

<n>Planisphere K.8538</n>, a <n>Neo-Assyrian</n> clay tablet from the 7th century BC, from the library of <n>Ashurbanipal</n>.

The <n>White Spring</n>, a sacred well in Glastonbury, England.

<n>Untitled, no. 3 of 12, from the series, Spirals</n> (2005) by artist <n>Louise Bourgeois</n>.

Model <n>Gabriela Spader</n> photographed by <n>David Bellemere</n>.

The <n>Aztec sun stone</n> in Mexico City, 1886. Photo by <n>New York State Archives</n>.

Evening sandal with a stiletto heel by designer <n>André Perugia</n> for <n>I. Miller</n>, 1951.

A <n>Pu’uloa Petroglyph</n> carved in lava rock at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

<n>Necklace</n> created in the USA, circa 1961.

<n>Harmonic Universe</n>, a 2014 drawing by artist <n>Daniel Martin Diaz</n>.

Illustration from the 19th-century Masonic manuscript <n>Alchymie du maçon</n> by <n>François-Nicolas Noël</n>.

The 17th-century <n>Grafarkirkja Turf Church</n> in Iceland. Photo by <n>Secret Iceland</n>.