Enter this ancient temple and discover sacred images of our past. Consider the energy, time and effort to create these masterpieces in a time when the scientific explosion was far off in a distant future. These items multiplied by thousands, tens of thousands and more, were manufactured and used commonly. What a magnificient people, our ancestors, what a magnificient heritage we have as an example for our own lives!

What wonders are in store in our future with such treasures a part of our past?

A Queen's Treasures

Golden pyxis decorated with star emblem of Inanna

Maenad winecup

Attic pottery vessel, with heroes and gods

Beautiful Mosaics and Paintings

Dionysos

Another Dionysos, detail, c.180 CE

The Courtyard of the Guardians

Carved lions guard the causeway

Another of Cybele's lions

Gallery of Ancient Coins

Athena and her totemic owl, silver, late 5th c. BCE

Artemis pictured on a coin of Syracuse

Venus Genetrix with Julia Domna Augusta

A coin image of Cybele and Julia Domna

The Goddess Liberty on a Roman coin, early 3rd c. CE

Venus, celebrated Goddess of Love, graces a golden aureus.

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