Bronze Age Cyprus A funnel-shaped faience "Rhyton" (ceremonial vessel) of the thirteenth century B.C., from the excavations at Kition, Cyprus. The surface of the vessel is covered with a layer of blue enamel and is divided into three horizontal bands, with the design elements painted in black, yellow, and green, and inlaid with red enamel. © GIANNI DAGLI ORTI/CORBIS. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION.
Bronze Age Scandinavia The "sun chariot" of bronze found in a bog at Trundholm in northwestern Zealand, Denmark, dates to c. 1500 B.C. The horse and the spiral-decorated sun disk are situated on a wagon, probably together forming a cult device. © ARCHIVO ICONOGRAFICO, S.A./CORBIS. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION.
Migration Period Peoples: Picts Pictish silver hoard from St. Ninian's Isle, Shetland. This hoard of monastic silver is from c. A.D. 800. © THE TRUSTEES OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION.
Jewelry Pair of Ostrogothic eagle-shaped fibulae: gilt bronze with cloisonné inlay of garnets, green stones or glass, blue glass, crystal, amethyst, and meerschaum, early sixth century A.D. THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM, BALTIMORE. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION.
Clothing and Textiles Male and female costume during the Viking Age. ANDROMEDA OXFORD LTD. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION.
Merovingian France Reproduction of the mosaic from the sixth-century bishop's palace, part of a complex Merovingian cathedral group. COURTESY SERVICE CANTONAL D 'ARCHÀOLOGIE, GENEVA. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION.
