Old European culture

A beautiful picture stone from Gotland, ca 6th century AD.  Official description says that "The wheel in the middle is thought to repre...

Queen Hetepheres II sphinx – Cairo Museum.  This sphinx is contemporaneous with the Great Sphinx in Giza. And interestingly, it seems that t...

This 2,800 year old ivory was recently discovered in the old Hittite capital Hattusa, Turkey. According to excavation director Prof. Dr. And...

This is the 860BC-850BC Middle Babylonian limestone "Sun God Tablet", currently in the British Museum . In this post, I would like...