Legally License Copyrighted Photos / July 12, 2003

1 - The British Museum in London

2 - Lion in the Inner Court

3 - Augustus family member on horse in the Inner Court

4 - Assyrian king

5 - Easter Island statue

6 - Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets

7 - The eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic flood story with Utnapishtim forewarned like Noah to build an ark to protect the living things and after the flood he sent out birds to look for dry land

8 - The eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic flood story with Utnapishtim forewarned like Noah to build an ark to protect the living things and after the flood he sent out birds to look for dry land

9 - The eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic flood story with Utnapishtim forewarned like Noah to build an ark to protect the living things and after the flood he sent out birds to look for dry land

10 - Babylonian story of the flood written in year 12 of the Babylonian King Ammiseduga, 1635 BC, probably from Sippar

11 - Creation epic tablet where the god Anshar summons the gods together for a banquet to celebrate Marduk's appointment as champion of the gods following his defeat of Timiat, primaeval Chaos

12 - Mesopotamian Ur ram

13 - Mesopotamian Ur harp

14 - Mesopotamian spikes

15 - Mesopotamian bronze artifacts

16 - Mesopotamian Ur burial items

17 - Akkadian or Neo-Sumerian cylinder seal 2200-2100 BC previously called the "Adam & Eve" seal because of the similar scene of a man and woman around a special tree with a snake that possibly could have originated from the Bible story, but the reality is that this is one of a well-known class of Akkadian banquet scene cylinder seals

18 - Ancient bracelet from king in the Afghanistan region

19 - Urartian temple artifacts from the capital of Urartu named Toprakkale (modern-day Van, Turkey)

20 - Egyptian pre-dynastic burial

21 - Ramses statue

22 - Egyptian falcon statue

23 - Assyrian winged bull

24 - Assyrian relief

25 - Assyrian relief

26 - Assyrian relief

27 - Assyrian relief

28 - Assyrian gates

29 - Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmanezer III that shows probably Israel King Jehu bowing down before the Assyrian King and other scenes of Israel slaves

30 - Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmanezer III

31 - Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmanezer III

32 - Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmanezer III

33 - Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmanezer III

34 - Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmanezer III

35 - Tel el-Armana Tablet Letter

36 - Tel el-Armana Tablet Letter

37 - Ain Ghazal figures

38 - Lachish Letters

39 - Lachish Letters

40 - Statue

41 - Hebrew writing

42 - Terracotta cylinders describing ancient activities in Babylon, etc.

43 - Terracotta cylinders describing ancient activities in Babylon, etc.

44 - Cyrus Cylinder - This clay cylinder is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform with an account by Cyrus, king of Persia (559-530 BC) of his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC and capture of Nabonidus, the last Babylonian king. This cylinder has sometimes been described as the 'first charter of human rights', but it in fact reflects a long tradition in Mesopotamia where, from as early as the third millennium BC, kings began their reigns with declarations of reforms.

45 - Cyrus Cylinder

46 - Susa relief of a Persian guard

47 - Susa relief of a Persian winged lion

48 - Sculpture

49 - Zeus statue with a photo of Greece' Mount Olympus in the background

50 - Parthenon Frieze

51 - Parthenon Frieze

52 - Parthenon Frieze

53 - Parthenon Sculptures

54 - Greek Mosaics

55 - Rosetta Stone

56 - Mausoleum - One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

57 - Mausoleum Frieze

58 - Mausoleum Frieze

59 - Mausoleum Statue

60 - Mausoleum Statue

61 - Mausoleum Statue

62 - Mausoleum Aphrodite Statue

63 - Mausoleum Alexander the Great Bust

64 - Molossian Hound statue

65 - Greek sculpture

66 - Greek Philosopher Busts

67 - Greek Philosopher Busts

68 - Temple

69 - Buddha

70 - Chinese figures

71 - Asian Art

72 - Asian Art

73 - Asian Art

74 - Bronze head of over life-size sculpture of first Roman Emperor Augustus

75 - Marble based from a statue of Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar AD 4-14, Augustus' successor and appears much younger than his 46 years

76 - Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar

77 - Roman Emperor Vespasian AD 69-79 bust form an over life-sized sculpture

78 - Roman Emperor Titus 79-81

79 - Roman Emperor Trajan 98-117

80 - Roman Emperor

81 - Roman Emperor

82 - Roman Emperor

83 - Roman Emperor

84 - Roman Emperor

85 - Roman Emperor

86 - Roman Emperor

87 - Roman Emperor

88 - Portland Vase

89 - Roman cup found near Jerusalem in first century showing licenscious scene

90 - Roman cup found near Jerusalem in first century showing licenscious scene

91 - Saxon King's burial items from ship

92 - Saxon King's burial items from ship