List of Illustrations Copper vessel with silver wire, from Ur, southern Iraq Gold cup of the Bronze Age, beaten out of a single lump of gold and found in Rillaton, Cornwall, England Gold mask from Mycenae Hammered gold standing figure, Colombia or Ecuador Granite statue of Senwosret III, from Deir el-Bahari, Thebes, Egypt Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak Detail of a Persian soldier from the stairway of the palace of Darius, king of Persia, at Persepolis (modern-day Iran) The fortifications of Eleutherae, a city in the northern part of Attica, bordering the country of Boeotia Roman marble statue of a youth on horseback and wearing a military cloak Linen bag of salt for mummification, from Deir el-Bahari, Egypt, New Kingdom Stone panel from the palace of Sennacherib, Nineveh, northern Iraq Lead pig (ingot), Roman Britain, from Hints Common, Staffordshire The el-Amarna Hoard, from el-Amarna, Egypt Silver coins of various cultures found at Persepolis, Persia (modern-day Iran) Fragments of a stone mould and bronze knife money, from northeastern China Cast ingots of bronze used as money in Rome before the invention of silver coinage Babylonian relief plaque of harpist Red sandstone railing pillar in the form of a flute player, Mathura, northern India The Greek god Apollo with kithara, a stringed instrument similar to a lyre 680 683 684 687 694 719 728 733 735 743 744 749 754 756 757 761 766 767 770 Whistling vessel in the form of a macaw, Peru, Moche culture Rock inscription at Seheil, Egypt, recording a seven-year famine Roman wall painting showing a coastal landscape, from Boscoreale, Campania, Italy Petroglyph showing herders and cows, from Sahara Desert at Tassili, Algeria, North Africa The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, showing mathematical problems and solutions, from Thebes, Egypt Painted Greek stele with metrical inscription Granite statue of Ankhwa, the shipbuilder, possibly from Saqqara, Egypt Spinning and weaving tools from Iron Age England Frieze of hydriaphoroi (water carriers) from the Greek Parthenon Traditional healer in anti-smallpox costume, Nigeria, West Africa Mesopotamian terra-cotta figure of an animal thought to be a dog Greek marble block from the frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epikourio (Apollo, the Helper), Bassae, Arcadia Limestone stela with images of the goddess Tanit, from Carthage (modern-day Tunisia) Limestone relief panel depicting the departure of Prince Siddhartha from his palace, to start on the spiritual journey that brings him to Buddhahood Iron Age horned helmet, from the River Thames at Waterloo Bridge, London, England Frieze of the gods Greek gods Poseidon and Apollo and the goddess Artemis from the Parthenon xvii 773 777 782 787 799 804 810 814 815 820 822 826 834 846 851 854