Made of bronze, Roman lamp (lucerna) in the shape of a griffin. The object is dated to the 4th century CE and was found in Serbia. [960x692]

Stone palette. China, Shang dynasty, 14th-11th c. BCE. National Palace Museum, Taiwan, nr. 626 [950 x 660]

Early Naqada II Egyptian necklace with lapis lazuli imported from Afghanistan by Mesopotamian traders, circa 3500 BCE [800×1200]

Predynastic bird-shaped vessel, Naqada II Egypt (3500 to 3200 BCE) [667×500]

The Rossano Gospels, held at the cathedral of Rossano in Italy, is a 6th-century illuminated Gospel Book written following the reconquest of the Italian peninsula by the Byzantine Empire. It contains the texts of Matthew and Mark written in fine silver and gold uncials on purple vellum [899x1339]

A green velvet dog-collar owned by the Swedish King Karl XI (1655 - 1697), made in the early 1670's, currently situated at Livrustkammaren in Stockholm - [3325 x 3324]

The Valley of the Mills (Valle dei Mulini) in Sorrento, Italy. These 13th-century flour mills, built from stone, used to have access to the sea, but construction of the Piazza Tasso in 1866 cut it off. They were abandoned in the 1940s, and greenery quickly overtook the whole valley [1920x2559]

Diana Nemorensis, cult-statue head of the goddess Diana called "Nemorensis"; a local variant of the goddess addressed with that title due to her sanctuary near Lake Nemi, south of Rome, Italy. Pennsylvania University Museum. [1265x1600]

Silver soup tureen by Charles Louis Boehme, Baltimore, Md., ca. 1800. Baltimore Museum of Art [4000x3000] [OC]

Ancient Greek Sarcophagus Of Aged Lap Dog With Stone-Inlaid Jeweled Collar Sitting On Bedding - The Animal Must Have Had Its Small Head Turned In The Direction Of The Ancient Road, Looking At The Passers-By With Its Expressive Glance. [1060x1500]

In Macedonia, bronze Phrygian caps date back to the 2nd century BC. BC e. transformed into Thracian helmets, with an elongated cumpole and a simple low metal crest or plume of feathers. [1280x792]