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Devil in Chains Fresco in the Debre Birhan Selassie Church, Gondar, North Ethiopia.

Orchha, India - December 20, 2012: Demons and devils are fighting with the gods on the mural at Lakshmi Narayana Temple on on December 20, 2012, in Orchha, India. The temple was built by King Veer Singh in 1622

26 June, 2023, Samarkand, Uzbekistan: Central Asian fresco of the 7th-8th centuries from the Ishhid palace. Depicted are court warriors or nobles with swords. Afrasiab Museum, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Stone Buddha niches at Yungang Grottoes, ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes built during the Northern Wei dynasty near the city of Datong, in the province of Shanxi. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. The others are Longmen and Mogao.

Wat Jed Yod, built in 1497, is a large active temple where monks live and study, and is seldom visited by foreigners. It is one of the ancient temples and translates to Seven Peaks Temple.

This detailed mural painting is on an interior wall of the ancient Thai Buddhist temple of Wat Phra Sing, which is open daily to the public. The scene is interesting as it depicts ancient styles and costumes from hundreds of years the Thai ago that would have been the common look every day at that time.

$31 January 2023, Historical Jayram Swami Vadgaon Math (Temple), there were some wall-paintings, Satara, Maharashtra, India.$

Oracle bone script was the form of Chinese characters used on oracle bones—animal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination—in the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest known form of Chinese writing.

Painting of a man with a Dog painted on the wall of Lakshmi Narayana Temple at Orchha state Madhya Pradesh

India, Maharashtra State, Aurangabad District , Soyagon Taluka, Lenapur Village (N20 33 11.988 E75 42 0) - Ajanta Cave (19th Nov 2011): This is one of the rarest mural painting that preserved well in Ajanta Cave Complex. This is Gupta Period mural painting painted by Buddhist monks showing different aspects of life of Buddha (Jataka Tales). One aspect is redemption for everyone.

Ancient Mural at Huaca de la Luna archaeological site - Trujillo, Peru

Interiors of Cave 6, one of the richest of the Yungang sites. It was constructed between 465 and 494 C.E. by Emperor Xiao Wen. The entire interior of the cave is carved and painted. The walls of the upper stories are host to carvings of standing Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and monks among other celestial figures. Yungang Grottoes, are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. The others are Longmen and Mogao.

Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India - January 2010: Ancient carvings of bulls on the wall of the Krishna Mandapa cave temple in the archaeological site of Mahabalipuram.

Foundings in excavation of Hattusa, Bogazkoy. Reliefs tablets statues walls gates cylinder seals stamp seals. Anatolian ancient civilizationsFoundings in excavation of Hattusa, Bogazkoy. Reliefs tablets statues walls gates cylinder seals stamp seals. Anatolian ancient civilizations

Pharaoh on old Egyptian Hieroglyphic carvings.

Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Detail of the Tapestry of Creation, Girona Cathedral Museum

A part of dome with a surviving apse, the painting depicts the virgin Mary with the Christ child on her lap and the heaven, the artist domed the scene with crosses shaped like flowers 6th-7th century AD

Cuneiform on clay tablet, the earliest form of writing known.

The Buddha statue at Yungang Grottoes, its an ancient Buddhist temple grottoes near the city of Datong in the Chinese province of Shanxi. stock photo

Obelisk Of Theodosius, Sultan Ahmet, Istanbul, Turkey

TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA – February 10, 2018: iconographic scenes and wall murals of saints painted in naive african christian style in Abuna Yemata Guh church

Stone Buddhas at Yungang Grottoes, ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes built during the Northern Wei dynasty near the city of Datong, in the province of Shanxi. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. The others are Longmen and Mogao.

The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE.

$The oldest part of the church - the nave - dates back to around year 1250 and is the only part of the original building, about year 1300 the 8 arches were build in and in 1350 the first frescoes were painted on the chancel arch at the choir, they portraits the four evangelists. Then 150 years later the church was white-washed and decorated by the much so mysterious Elmelundemestrer. In the beginning of the 16th century the old choir was replaced with the one present today and the tower was build.\nThe frescoes was covered for many years but then in 1932-34 they were brought back into the light. Due to the massive layer of dust the frescoes had been protected from the white-wash and in order to bring them forward the restorer only had to dry-out the church and knock/peel of the outer coat of white-wash.$

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