r/AncientCivilizations

: "Sargon of Akkad, Bronze Head ca. 2300 B.C. Photographed in 1936, National Museum of Iraq"

: "Some snapshots of my recent visit to the Luxor Temple at sunset."

: "A 50,000-year-old Neanderthal flute found in Divje Babe cave of Slovenia, reveals Neanderthals might have played music tens of thousands of years before Homo sapiens."

: "photo of a man standing on the lap of a statue of Ramesses in Egypt, 1856."

: "A Horrifying and Agonizing Death 😨"

: "Alexander the Great was crowed pharaoh of Egypt, as shown here praying to Amun at the Luxor Temple"

: "Winged Victory of Samothrace, Greece, c. 200 BC. Front view of the Nike of Samothrace, a marble sculpture of the goddess of victory caught in the precise moment of landing on the prow of a Greek warship. One of the few original major Hellenistic statues to reach our times... [1280x626] [OC]"

: "Sculpture of a yaki (nature spirit) holding a sala branch. Mathura, India, Kushan Empire, 2nd century AD [1100x1215]"

: "Kushim: The First Named Person in Recorded History"

: "What was life like in Roman stone quarries 1,700 years ago?"