Ancient art

art of carving and engraving of stones or gems

small carved gemstones

art of the advanced cultures of ancient societies

ancient art flourished in the Cyclades (Greece)

thumb|240px|A centaur struggling with a [[Lapith on a metope from the Parthenon, in the British Museum (London), part of the Elgin Marbles]] thumb|240px|right|An Assyrian [[lamassu in the Louvre]] thumb|right|240px|Chinese ritual bronze|Chinese ritual wine server (guang), circa 1100 BC Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean such as the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt, and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures such as Ancient Persia (Iran). Artifacts from earlier periods such as the Mesolithic, and other civilizations fr

art of the Parthian Empire

archaeological site of Colombia

art genre

A cosmogram depicts a cosmology in a flat geometric form. They are used for various purposes: meditational, inspirational and to depict structure – real or imagined – of the earth or universe.