Agate Satyr Scarab

Etruscan. c550BCE. British Museum.

Gate at Karnak

Stone Circle at Darab, Persia

Scythian Pectoral

4th century BCE. Found in a kurgan in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Amulet-Pendant from Susa

Head of a lioness. Late 6th-4th century BCE. Louvre.

Head of a Roman Household Offering Sacrifice

Caligula and Roma

1st century CE cameo. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Roman Onyx Cameo

Made in 27 BCE. 16th century setting. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Silver Tetradrachm

From Katana, Sicily. c435-425 BCE. The bust on the obverse is Apollo.

Spinario

1st century BCE Greek bronze, after an earlier work. Musei Capitolini, Rome.

Pyramids of Sakkara

19th century photograph by Francis Frith.

Abercastle, Wales