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]