r/AncientCivilizations 9h ago

A 2100 years old statue head attributed to Hygieia, the goddess of hygiene and health, was found in the ancient city of Laodicea.

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r/AncientCivilizations 13h ago

India Indian War elephant, 1st century BCE.

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189 Upvotes

r/AncientCivilizations 18h ago

China Bronze vessel with mask textures. China, Western Zhou dynasty, 896 BC

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r/AncientCivilizations 7h ago

Gardener Unearths Denmark’s Largest Viking Silver Hoard — 18.5 Kilograms Hidden in a Clay Pot

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r/AncientCivilizations 11h ago

Mesoamerica Dish with deer. Los Tuxtlas culture, present-day Veracruz, Mexico, Late Classic to Epiclassic Period, ca. 650-1000 AD. Ceramic with polychrome slip-paint. Princeton University Art Museum collection [2992x2992] [OC]

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r/AncientCivilizations 6h ago

Asia Neolithic sculpture of a man riding a leopard discovered in Turkey

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Aprox. 11,000-years-old. Ergun Lafli says the statue “is one of the very earliest evidences of religion and cult in the entire ancient Near East and therefore meaningful for the whole Neolithic world stretching from Spain in the west to Afghanistan in the east, including Stonehenge in the UK.”


r/AncientCivilizations 8h ago

Roman Antioch 350 CE

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