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The dogs of Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) attacking the Indians on engraving from 1770.

Abraham and Isaac carrying wood for the burnt offering in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897

$Python, in Greek mythology, a huge serpent that was killed by the god Apollo at Delphi either because it would not let him found his oracle, being accustomed itself to giving oracles, or because it had persecuted Apollo's mother, Leto, during her pregnancy.\n\nThe fresco shows the Omphalos stone covered with a net and the Python wrapped around it. A priestess stands at left with a sacrificial bull.\n\nA detail from a sacrificial scene shows a bull being brought to the omphalos - Made up of a stone and a snake it represents the navel of the world - Apollo plays the zither.\n\nThe ancient Greeks also used omphalos to refer to a sacred, rounded stone in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi that was supposed to mark the center of the earth.$

An old vintage illustration of greek and roman gods of gates and doors

Typical ancient Greek pottery paintings depicting reddish figures on a black background.

$Florence, İtaly - 08/29/2023.\nFlorence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany in Central Italy. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 360,930 inhabitants in 2023, and 984,991 in its metropolitan area.\nFlorence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.\nThe city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes ranked it as the most beautiful city in the world in 2010.\nFlorence plays an important role in Italian fashion, and is ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world by Global Language Monitor; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre, as well as a tourist and industrial hub.$

Bas-relief embedded in the southern wall of the Romanic parish church of San Floriano, dating back to the 12th century, located in the province of Verona

$Lararium of House of the Vettii, Pompeii. \nA genius between two Lares,and the snake; Traditional religious image in the houses of ancient Rome.\nIn classical Roman religion, a genius loci ( plural genii loci ) was the protective spirit of a place. It was often depicted in religious iconography as a figure holding attributes such as a cornucopia, patera ( libation bowl ) or snake.\nIn the center stands the Genius, young and unbearded. On each side of him stands a wreathed Lar, holding rhyton and situla. The lower end of each rhyton has the form of a fore-part of a goat. In the lower zone of the same panel a crested and bearded serpent with brown back and yellow belly glides through plants towards the altar. This painted square altar is shown at the right edge of the panel. On the altar are an egg and some fruits.$

During the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah became king of Judah. He eventually rebelled against Babylon. Babylon attacked Jerusalem. After two years under siege, Jerusalem was left with no food and the people were starving to death. Zedekiah escaped from captivity. He was later found, taken again into custody, and forced to watch his sons killed. The Babylonians then blinded him and put him in jail. They also burned down the Temple of the Lord. Any people still alive were taken captive and Jerusalem was left in ruins.

Hadrian's Temple door at Ephesus. It is one of the best preserved and most beautiful structures on Curetes Street. It was built before 138 A.D by P.Quintilius and was dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, who came to visit the city from Athens in 128 A.D. Inside the temple above the door, a human figure, probably Medusa stands with ornaments of acanthus leaves. Ephesus, Turkey. Friezes.

$The Sack of Baltimore took place in 1631, when the village of Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by Ottoman Empire slavers from the Barbary Coast of North Africa – Dutchmen, Algerians and Ottoman Turks. From an 1886 antique book \$

Solomon's judgment of harlots for the baby in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897

Paestum.The Tomb of the Diver was discovered in 1968 and consists of 5 large stone slabs each hosting a fresco. This picture shows the fresco on the short western wall. It depicts a girl playing a flute, a single walking person and a man wearing a himation (traditional Greek cloth , draped around the body as a coat).

$Iphigeneia carried to the sacrifice by Odysseus and Menelaos\nThe House of the Tragic Poet ( also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House ) is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BC. The house is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology.\nFrom left to right : Agamemnon - Odysseus - Menelaos ( holding Iphigeneia ) - Calchas$

France. Haute-Savoie. Megève. St. John the Baptist Church. October, 1, 2019. This color image despict a mural of the Italian, Mucengo, under the vaults dating from 1828: The Baptism of Jesus Christ by St. John the Baptist. Around 1853, Benedictine monks arrived in the territory of Megève to raise a priory dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The church is enlarged in the 14th century.

A religious sculpture on the facade of Como Cathedral. Building on this cathedral began in 1396 with architect Lorenzo degli Spazzi from Laino supervising. The church facade was built in the later part of the 15th century and was concluded in 1770.

Acireale - The fresco of St. Paul the Apostle in Duomo by Saro Licciardello

Bulgaria - Rila Monastery ( Rilski Manastir). The Monastery of Saint John of Rila, also known as Rila Monastery is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, 117 km south of the capital Sofia in the deep valley of the Rilska River. It is a site UNESCO

The Chinese Goddess of Mercy delivering a soul from purgatory with a lotus flower. The goddess is called Guanyin, Quan Yin, or Kuan Yin.

New Chadnezzar destroys the children of Zedekiah before his eyes in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897

Ancient relief of Attic Sarcophagus from Ayios Ioannis cemetery, Patras, Greece, AD 150-170. Hunt with dog for the Calydonian boar.

$Lararium fresco in atrium of ancient tavern, Via dell Abbondanza, Pompeii, Italy.\nIt consists of a lararium dedicated to the protectors of the household ( Lari ), the Genius protector of the owner, as well as the god of trade ( Mercury ) and the god of wine ( Dionysus ). The house is at the rear, interconnected with the shop, decorated with precious frescoes and a triclinium for outdoor dining.\n\nThe thermopolium of Vetutius Placidus opens on via dell’Abbondanza and represents social mobility in Pompeii in Roman times, where merchants and craftsmen also held a high social status, reserved only to landowners in older times. Drinks and hot food were served in this place, as the name indicates, stored in large jars placed in the richly decorated masonry counter of the tavern.$

A few of the kings of Judah were good men, loyal to the Lord. But all of the kings of Israel, the northern kingdom, were men who did evil. There was much killing and worshiping of idols. God sent his messengers, the prophets, to warn Israel. But the people ignored the prophets. The people of Israel did not keep the covenant their ancestors had made with the Lord. So the Lord removed them from the land he had given them. Only the tribe of Judah was left.

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