Achaemenid

Achaemenid ceremonial handle with winged silver and gold ibex Anonymous

Tomb of Artaxerxes I, c.466-464 BC Achaemenid

General view of the Apadana founded c.518 BC Achaemenid

View of the east staircase of the Apadana c.515 BC Achaemenid

The rock-cut tomb of Artaxerxes I, c.466-464 BC, with a Sasanian relief below depicting Shapur I's victory over the Romans Achaemenid

The rock-cut tomb of Artaxerxes I, c.466-464 BC, with a Sasanian relief below depicting Shapur I's victory over the Romans Achaemenid

Artaxerxes II King of Persia School French

Darius the Great Opening the Tomb of Nitocris, 17th century Eustache Le Sueur

The Death of the Wife of Darius III 1785 Louis Jean Francois I Lagrenee

Artaxerxes II King of Persia French School

Masquerade at Persepolis Francesco Primaticcio

Ka'bah-i Zardusht, c.500 BC Achaemenid

The death of Darius, before 1745 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

The Beheading of Cyrus II Jean-Simon Berthelemy

The Souls of Acheron, 1898 Adolph Hiremy-Hirschl

Esther before Ahasuerus, c.1630 Artemisia Gentileschi

Detail of The Souls of Acheron, 1898 Adolph Hiremy-Hirschl

The Souls of Acheron, 1898 Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

The Souls of Acheron (Detail), 1898 Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

The Beast Acheron Simon Marmion

Esther Before Ahasuerus, 1552-55 Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto

Zerubbabel Showing a Plan of Jerusalem to Cyrus, 17th century Jacob or Jacques van Loo

Achilles Receiving in his Tent the Envoys of Agamemnon, 1801 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The Triumph of Mordecai, c.1736 Jean Francois de Troy

A tombstone of Amennebi, c1550 BC Anonymous

Chariot and cavalryman, 8th cen. BC Assyrian Art

Tutankhamun on his chariot attacking Asiatics, side of a chest, New Kingdom, c.1340 BC Egyptian Egyptian

Detail from the Book of the Day from the ceiling of the burial chamber of the Tomb of Ramesses VI... Egyptian 20th Dynasty

Achilles Receiving the Ambassadors of Agamemnon Anonymous

Armenian from Erzerum Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas Preziosi

Cypriote Antiquities Discovered at the Temple of Artemis at Achna and at Salamis Anonymous

Detail Showing the Pharoah Amenhotep III Enthroned from the Colossi of Memnon at Luxor Anonymous

Detail from the Book of the Day from the ceiling of the burial chamber of the Tomb of Ramesses VI... Egyptian 20th Dynasty

Portrait of Ramesses III from the Tomb of Amen-Her-Khepshef, New Kingdom Egyptian 19th Dynasty

Yemenis, 1999 Karen Armitage

Athenian Attic black-figure neck amphora, attributed to the Leagros group, with Ajax and Achilles, c.510 BC Greek school