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The Athlit Cemetery, the largest known Crusader resting place in the Middle East, lies outside the 13th-century Knights Templar's Athlit Castle.
Potsherds and coin finds date the numerous graves to the short period between 1218 and 1291. The deceased…

The Athlit Cemetery, the largest known Crusader resting place in the Middle East, lies outside the 13th-century Knights Templar's Athlit Castle.
Potsherds and coin finds date the numerous graves to the short period between 1218 and 1291. The deceased…

Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg),
Knight, Death, and the Devil. Print, 1513.

Harvard Art Museums, G1112

The Ambrosian Iliad, also called the Ilias Picta, is the oldest (and only ancient) surviving illustrated manuscript of Homer’s Iliad. Along with the Vatican Vergil (see Module 1) and the Vergilius Romanus, it is one of three extant examples of…

This fresco of Adam and Eve in the garden is instantly recognizable to anyone who is familiar with the scene from later centuries of Christian art. Within the catacomb, there is a mixture of pagan (including a representation of Orpheus playing a…

Obverse: Titus seated on chair, holding laurel branch; before him a tripod, behind him a shield. Below rocks.
Reverse: The Coliseum seen from above. Four stories with columns. To the right a two-stores building, to the left the meta sudens.