JeanB

 1200s and earlier

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (erected 537-532 AD)

Angels emerges from sun; 4 others hold the winds (after 922 AD)

a very early Madonna and Child icon (9th century)

Romanesque fresco at Anagni Cathedral (ca 1225)

Hadrian’s Villa (ca 125-134 AD)

Infernal Beasts Come Out of the Abyss (ca 950-955)

Creation of Eve (ca 1150; Byzantine)

Moses reads the law to the Israelites (ca 840)

Alexander the Great (detail; 1st century; Pompeii)

Moon Pyramid, Trujillo, Peru (detail of bas relief)

ancient Egyptian funeral practices (facsimile by Chas Wilkinson)

reconstruction of Old Lord Sipán's tomb, Peru

Noah's Ark (ca 975)

Tutankhamun's gilded throne (ca 1336-1327 BC)

Iapyx trying removing arrowhead from Aeneas' leg (1stc)

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (between 1091 and 1109)

The French Martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane

Enameled plaques (1100s)

Coptic Roundel (6thc)

a mythical bonnacon defends itself (ca 1185)