A steel engraving published by John Sartain in 1885, depicting Caesar Augustus' now lost painting of the death of Cleopatra VII in encaustic, which was discovered at Emperor Hadrian's Villa (near Tivoli, Italy) in 1818 [2399x3375]

This is the world's oldest heliocentric planetarium, made by Steven Tracy in circa 1670. It is a model of the solar system powered by a clockwork, showing how the planets revolve around the sun. Now housed at the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, Netherlands [1536x2048]

The lid of an Etruscan terracotta sarcophagus with an elderly couple. 90-80 BCE, now housed at the Guarnacci Etruscan Museum in Volterra, Italy [1710x1383]

The Robin Hood Cave Horse is an engraving of a horse's head on a fragment of rib from 12,500 years ago. Discovered in 1876, it is the only piece of Upper Paleolithic portable art showing an animal to have been found in Britain. [2080 x 1248]

Ivory carving of a man with umbrellas. Japan, 19th century [877x816]

Mummy portrait of a bearded man. Faiyum, Egypt, Roman period, 170-180 AD [930x1170]

Tax form signed by the Indonesian freedom fighter Dr. Ernest Douwes Dekker aka Dr. Danudirja Setiabudi, the form signed one month before his death in August 28, 1950 [2675x3343]

Roman mosaic showing a tigress with young tigers. Object dated to the 4th century CE. It is now at The Cleveland Museum of Art in the USA. [1200x1312]

Female Devotee c. early 100s. India, Mathura, Kushan period (c. 80 - 375). Sandstone [3959x5837]

An Etruscan ceramic plate with a scene of a war elephant with mahout followed by a calf. Found in Capena, ca. 275–270 BCE, now housed at the National Etruscan Museum in Italy [2048x2048]

Kali fighting demons and offering their head to Durga,1781,pahari school of painting, Himachal Pradesh,on display at csmvs museum Mumbai India (1080x192