Horseman, Pazyryk felt artefact (carpet detail), 5th or 4th century BC. From the Pazyryk burial mounds, a series of Iron Age kurgans in the Altai Mountains, Siberia. [418x360]
The bronze helmet of the murmillo – type gladiator. The object dates to the 2nd century CE. The artefact is located in the Neues Museum in Berlin. [480x600]
Limestone relief of dromedary camel rider. Decorative element from facade of 10th c BC palace of Kapara, ruler of neo-Hittite city state of Guzana (present-day Tell Halaf, Syria). Walters Art Museum [1202x1799]