Old European culture

A 16th cent. BC Minoan vessel found on Thera, Akrotiri, depicting (according to the museum curators) on one side wild goats and saffron croc...

A silver didrachm from Taranto in southern Italy minted during the period 355-340 BC. It features on obverse a male youth riding a dolphin....

Dionysus' Kylix (cup) from Vulci, Etruria, Italy - 530 BC - currently in Staatliche Antikensammlungen of Munich, Bavaria, Germany Intere...

This is a 490 BC Etruscan hydria from Vulci, previously belonging to the Feoli Collection . shows Apollo in the centre, holding his lyre, se...