1881 archaeological discoveries

Catholic and Muslim shrine located on Mt. Koressos

Smooth-sided pyramid

human skull stone carvings made of clear quartz, claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican

group of mathematical manuscripts including an early use of the positional zero

clay cylinders with cuneiform inscriptions of king Nabonidus

ancient Egyptian tomb

Protocorinthian painted vase

Babylonian stone tablet

Roman-era house just outside the walls of Mdina, Malta

The Pair-non-Pair Cave is located near the village of Prignac-et-Marcamps, Aquitaine:Gironde (33) department in France. Only discovered in 1881 it is known for remarkable prehistoric parietal engravings - petroglyphic representations of wild animals (horses, ibexes, cervidae, bovines and mammoths), "which rank among the most ancient examples of art made by prehistoric" humans, dating back to between 30,000 and 25,000 BP, the Aurignacian cultural period of the Upper Paleolithic.

Pharaoh Osorkon I, second king of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty (reigned 922–887 BC). The statue bears the cartouche of the king and a Phoenician inscription in the name of Elibaal, king of Byblos, fromerly in the Peytel collection

rock-cut monument in Fars, Iran