history

Broken <n>kouros</n> head sculpture from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoion in Boeotia, 6th century BC.

Bronze <n>Head of Alexander the Great</n>, ca. 150 BC–138 AD. From the collection of <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

A detail of <n>The Green Man</n>, a <n>Gothic</n> stone sculpture from the 1200s at <n>Bamberg Cathedral</n> in Germany.

A spiral water feature at the <n>Neelkanth Mahadev Temple</n> in Mandu, India.

Bronze <n>Head of an Akkadian Ruler</n>, thought to depict King <n>Sargon of Akkad</n>. 23rd century BC.

Assyrian <n>Lamassu from the palace of Sargon II</n> in Khorsabad, c. 721-705 BC. Photo by <n>swisshippo</n>.

A sculpture at the <n>Louvre Museum</n> in Paris. Photo by <n>Dmitri Kessel</n>, 1949.

A close-up of <n>The Charioteer of Delphi</n>, a bronze sculpture from c. 478-474 BC.

A garland on the royal insignia of <n>Tutankhamun</n>'s outermost coffin. Photo by <n>Harry Burton</n>, 1926.