The Nile is the only river of Egypt, and is called by way of pre-eminence the River.
Egypt. The river Nile, with the Pyramids of Ghizeh in the distance.
Category: Ancient
The Lictor panel. A stately Roman lictor in a rich costume.
The Paulus Emilius series, as previously stated, was woven in the third quarter of the XVII century. It showed the Roman hero clad in a sumptuous robe …
Minoan or Mycenaean Age. Costumes of ancient cretan people.
The Cretan costume of Antiquity. Long ago on the island of Crete there lived a group of people called Cretans and belonged to Minoan or Mycenaean Age.
Musical instruments. Wind and Stringed instruments of ancient Rome.
Rome. Musical instruments. Wind instruments. Stringed instruments. Cymbals, Timpani and castanets.
Rome. The atrium. Interior of an ancient Roman palace.
The atrium was connected to several side rooms, which were closed by doors, and two open rooms, the latter being called alae.
Reconstructed Gallic warrior from about 400-200 B.C.
Gallic warrior from about 400-200 before Christ. Reconstructed after antique sculptures and original finds. Gimbel’s weapons collection.
Gauls. The inhabitants of Gaul before the Roman conquest.
Gauls. Male and female types. Gallic chief. Merovingian chief. Frankish warrior with the Scamasax. Farmers. Flag Bearer. Horsemen. Warrior types of the Salian Franks. The bardocucullus. The carnyx, war trumpet.
Pompeji. Roman architecture. The Pompeian House. The Atrium.
Plan and section of the house of the Pansa. Ostium or Prothyrum. The Vestibule, the Piscnia, Peristylium, the Library, Oecus or Cyzicenian Hall of the Roman house.
The clothing of the vestal virgins. The cult of Vesta in ancient Rome.
The clothing of the vestal virgins consisted of infula, vittae, suffibulum which was held together under the chin by a fibula
Jerusalem. Absalom’s Pillar in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
The Tomb of Absalom (Hebrew יד אבשלום Yad Avshalom) is an ancient funerary monument in the Kidron Valley near Jerusalem. It dates from the 1st century AD.
