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Bone Handle with Winged Humanoid
Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE
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Evidence for the material culture of ancient Israel comes mostly from artifacts and archaeology and attests to the influence of the great empires that surrounded Israel.
[Greetings, PN,] from [PN].
[No]w, I [sen]t to you, saying: “Do not dispatch to me bread without it being sealed.”
Lo, all the jars are impure. Behold, the bread which [you]
dispatch[ed] to me…
Jeremiah at the Fall of Jerusalem, commissioned by the crown prince of Prussia, and first exhibited to great acclaim at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1872, depicts the fall of Jerusalem to Babylonia in…
Battlefield with prisoners and corpses, on Egyptian cosmetic palette, ca. 3100 BCE. The scene includes bound prisoners being led off and corpses being eaten by vultures, ravens, and a lion. Burial was…