Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos | Kerameikos museum c. 390 BC

File: 1257-Keramikos Museum, Athens-Iron tool-Photo by Giovanni Dall ' Orto, Nov 12 2009. jpg | Ancient Greek iron hoe, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek iron sickle, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens.

File: 1017-Keramikos Museum, Athens-Spindle-whirls, 10th century BC-Photo by Giovanni Dall ' Orto, Nov 12. jpg | Ancient Greek spindles, 10th century BC, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens

Archaeological excavations in the Kerameikos began in 1870 under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society.

Latest findings in the Kerameikos include the excavation of a 2. 1 m tall Kouros, unearthed by the German Archaeological Institute at Athens under the direction of Professor Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier.

Over the years the museum has been further endowed by various donors, and it now includes the seaside Kouloura Mansion in Palaio Phaliro, which is to house a Children's Toys Collection, the Benaki Islamic Art Museum in the Kerameikos district, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Museum in downtown Athens, and the Penelope Delta House in Kifissia, which houses the Historical Archive Collection.

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

Kerameikos () is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon ( Δίπυλον ) Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River.

During the construction of Kerameikos station for the expanded Athens Metro, a plague pit and approximately 1, 000 tombs from the 4th and 5th centuries BC were discovered.

For the Panathenaic festival, arguably the most important civic festival at Athens, a torch race began at the altar, which was located outside the sacred boundary of the city, and passed through the Kerameikos, the district inhabited by potters and other artisans who regarded Prometheus and Hephaestus as patrons.

Both cemeteries such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi and sanctuaries such as Olympia, recently-founded Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-standing temples, are richly provided with offerings including items from the Near East, from Egypt and from Italy made of exotic materials such as amber or ivory, while exports of Greek pottery demonstrate contact with the Levant coast at such sites as Al Mina and with the region of the Villanovan culture to the north of Rome.

The earliest known combination lock was excavated in a Roman period tomb on the Kerameikos, Athens.

Iron Age burials, in the Kerameikos and other locations, are often richly provided for and demonstrate that from 900 BC onwards Athens was one of the leading centres of trade and prosperity in the region ; as were Lefkandi in Euboea and Knossos in Crete.

This pottery is best known from the cemeteries of Kerameikos in Athens, the island of Salamis located in the Saronic Gulf off Attica, Skoubris in Lefkandi ( Euboea ), and the markets of Athens ( Agora ), Tiryns, and Mycenae.

The Kerameikos was the potters ' quarter of Athens.

The neighborhoods of Plaka ( Πλάκα ), Monastiraki ( Μοναστηράκι ), Psiri ( Ψυρρή ) and Kolonaki ( Κολωνάκι ) are all within walking distance, and most of the famous sites of ancient Athens are nearby, including the Acropolis ( Ακρόπολις ), the Theater of Dionysus, the Areopagus, the Ancient Agora of Athens ( Αρχαία Αγορά των Αθηνών ) with Hadrian's Library, the Tower of the Winds in the Roman Agora, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, the Arch of Hadrian ( Αψίς του Ανδριανού ), the Temple of Olympian Zeus ( Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός ), the Pnyx ( Πνύκα ), the Philopappos Monument ( Μνημείο του Φιλοπάππου ) on the Hill of the Nymphs, the Kerameikos Cemetery ( Νεκροταφείο Κεραμικού ), the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ( Μνημείο του Αγνώστου Στρατιώτη ) and Lycabettus Hill.

A mass grave and nearly 1, 000 tombs, dated to between 430 and 426 BC, have been found just outside Athens ' ancient Kerameikos cemetery.

The walk from Athens to the Academy was 6 stadia ( 1 mile ) from the Dipylon gates ( Kerameikos ).

Eridanos () was the small stream that flowed from a source in the foothills of the Lykabettos, through the Agora of ancient Athens in Greece to the archaeological site of the Kerameikos, where its bed is still visible.

Board game with inlays of ivory, rock crystal and glass paste, covered with gold and silver leaf, on a wooden base ( Knossos, Minoan chronology | New Palace period 1600 – 1500 B. C., Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete )

Bronze deer figurine dating from between the XI and VI centuries BC, National Archaeological Museum ( Bulgaria ) | National Archaeological Museum of Sofia

bas relief c. 600 BC, in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens | National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Inscription reading " To Queen Thessalonike of Macedon | Thessalonike, ( Daughter ) of Philip ", Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki | Archaeological Museum.

File: NAMA Mycènes bouclier 1. jpg | Wall painting depicting a Mycenaean Greek " figure eight " shield with a suspension strap at the middle, 15th century BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens-The faces of figure eight shields were quite convex.

Relief, now in National Archaeological Museum of Athens | Athens, showing Dionysus with actresses ( possibly from The Bacchae ) carrying masks and drums.

File: Agrigente 2008 IMG 1989. JPG | Archaeological Museum

The Gorgon as depicted on the western pediment from the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | Artemis Temple of Corfu, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

from the Tholos ( Ancient Rome ) | tholos at Epidaurus ( Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus )

The Archaic Greece | archaic Gorgon at the pediment of the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | Temple of Artemis in Corfu as shown at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

File: Troj Horse. JPG | At the Istanbul Archaeological Museum in Istanbul, Turkey

A Roman period, 2nd century CE sculpture found near the Ioannis Varvakis | Varvakeion school reflects the type of the restored Athena Parthenos presently in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens | National Archaeological Museum, Athens

File: NAMA-Statue of a sleeping Maenad 04. JPG | Statue of a sleeping Maenad, lying on a panther skin spread on a rocky surface ; the type is known as the reclining Hermaphrodite ; Pentelic marble ; found at the south of the Athenian Acropolis ; Hadrianic time ( 117-138 AD ), follows a classical trend in the attic art ; National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

File: Sommer, _Giorgio_ ( 1834-1914 ) _-_1516_-_MUSEO_DI_NAPOLI. jpg | Antinous Farnese, Naples National Archaeological Museum

Statuette of the Apollo Lykeios type, Ancient Agora of Athens | Museum of the Ancient Agora of Athens ( inv.

Marsyas under Apollo's punishment ; Istanbul Archaeology Museums | İstanbul Archaeology Museum.

File: Poeh museum, night. jpg | Poeh Museum tower, the tallest adobe structure in New Mexico, USA

Another version of the standardised imperial portrait ; from the house of Jason Magnus at Cyrene, Libya | Cyrene, North Africa ( British Museum ).

Image: Museum of Medicine in Quito. jpg | Pichincha in the distance from the Colonial Center of Quito

Three Maries, alabaster sculpture by Master of the Rimini Crucifixion ( c. 1430 ), National Museum, Warsaw | National Museum, Warsaw

Andrea Briosco, Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias, XVI century plaquette, Bode Museum | Bode-Museum

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

Air ( Maillol ) | Air cast 1938, Kröller-Müller Museum

File: Medieval horse armour. jpg | Medieval horse armour on display at Museum of Islamic Art, Doha in Qatar.

The Apple II computer on display at the Museum of the Moving Image ( New York City ) | Museum of the Moving Image in New York City

File: Albrecht Dürer-Jesus among the Doctors-Google Art Project. jpg | Twelve-year-old Jesus among the Scribes, 1506, oil on panel, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

File: Albrecht Dürer 094b. jpg | Portrait of a Young Man, 1507, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie

File: Albrecht Dürer 058. jpg | Mary with the squatting child, 1516, oil on panel, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman with Her Throat Cut, 1932 ( cast 1949 ), Museum of Modern Art | Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Conservation staff for both the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery are visible to the public through floor-to-ceiling glass walls that allow visitors to see firsthand all the techniques that Conservator ( museum ) | Conservators use to examine, treat and preserve artworks within a functioning conservation Laboratory.

Image: Aegis of Isis-Sudan 300s bc-British Museum-83d40m. JPG | Aegis on an image of Isis from the Nubian culture of the 4th century BC found in contemporary Sudan-British Museum

The Death of Adonis, by Giuseppe Mazzuoli ( 1644-1725 ) | Giuseppe Mazzuoli, 1709-Hermitage Museum

File: Tutanhkamun jackal. jpg | Anubis statue from the Tomb of Tutankhamun ( Cairo Museum ).

File: Egyptian-A Worshipper Kneeling Before the God Anubis-Walters 54400-Three Quarter View. jpg | A worshipper kneeling before Anubis, Walters Art Museum