The Pompeian House. The Atrium. Plan and section of the house of the Pansa.
Pompeji. The Pompeian House. Roman architecture.
Category: Ancient
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.
German clothing up to the 10th c.. Goths, Lombards, Merovingians.
German people in the dress at the end of the 10th century. Lombard king. Merovingian Franks. Carolingian Franks. Clothing in the Middle Ages.
The ancient Jerusalem. Geographical and historical. The Holy Land.
The importance of Jerusalem to Israel and the world is due the fact that it became the seat of the chosen Temple of God.
The only of the Egyptian god Ammon extant, with the Ram’s head.
This figure of the Egyptian god Ammon, being a monument of considerable importance in the history of the art
The Approach to the Island of Philae, Egypt, from the North.
The Approach to Philae is one of the few views which a photograph can render without, perhaps, greatly detracting from its artistic fame.
The Colossi of Memnon. Colossal Statues in The Plain of Thebes.
Colossal Statues in The Plain of Thebes, during the Inundation of the Nile. Two ancient Egyptian colossal statues standing side by side from the 14th century BC.
The magnificent Corinthian temple of Jupiter Olympios and the river Ilissos.
The magnificent Corinthian temple, on the northern side of the Ilissos, was begun by Pisistratos, and finished by Hadrian, who dedicated it to the divinity of Jupiter Olympios.
The ancient Entrance to the city of Athens
The ancient Entrance to the city of Athens near the Gate of Hadrian.