PHOTO ARCHIVE         

The Near East and Central Asia
Egypt   Assyria   Ugarit   The Hittites   Urartu (Van)   Babylon   Mesopotamia   Phoenician  
Syria   Oman (Magan)   Umm an-Nar (UAE)   Arabian Peninsular/Yemen   Museum of Ancient Orient, Istanbul  
Iran/Persia   Kushan Empire, Bactria   Turkmenistan   Samarkand archeological museum   The Tarim depression, China  

Greece and Greek history
Bronze Age    History   Museums   Greek pottery   Figurines   Other crafts   Topography  
Athens   Sunion   Marathon   Pentelikon   Laurion   Brauron (Artemis)   Thorikos
Corinth and area   Argive Heraion   Epidauros   Delphi   Olympia   Sparta   Messenia  
Aegina   Naxos   Delos   Samos   Cypros   Sicily   Pithekoussai   Paestum

Italy and Roman history
Etruria - Etruscan period    History   Museums   Relief   Painting   Numismatics   Portraiture  
Textiles   Topography   Miscellanous
Rome   Via Appia   Ostia   Tivoli   Villa Hadriana   "Villa of Horaces" (Vicovaro)   Lago Bracciano
Sutri   Ferentium   Bolsena (Volsinii)   Vulci   Via Clodia   Arezzo   Pisa   Ravenna   Augusta Praetoria (Aosta)  
Terracina - Anxur   Sperlonga   Gaeta   Formia   Minturnae   Cumae   Puteoli   Pithekoussai   Capri  
Bay of Naples   Naples   Herculaneum   Oplontis   Pompeii   Boscoreale   Cassino   Paestum  
Velia (Castellamare)   Sicily   Sardegna   Aleria, Corsica  

Provinces
Gallia   Britannia   Spain   Split   Aquincum (Budapest)   Roman roads Cypros
Libya   Tunisia   Turkey   Jordan   Syria   Palmyrena   Strata Diocletiana   Palestine - Israel   Baalbek  

Red Sea region - Arabian Peninsular - Indian Ocean
Ethiopia   Eritrea   Saudi Arabia   Khor Rouri (Oman)   Arabian Peninsular/Yemen  
Caravan routes, Berenice - Coptos, Egypt   Port-sites of the Indian coastland

The Silk Road
Iran   Turkmenistan   Uzbekistan   China  


Other periods
Pre-History:    The Megalithic Portal   Denmark   Norway   Viking Age   Al-Kowm. Syria   Libya   Miscellaneous
Syria   Turkey   Judaism   Islam/Ottoman   Christianity/Middle Ages   India/Indian Ocean


Ethnography
Turkey    Syria   Israel/Palestine 1962   Italy   Greece  
Libya   Tunisia   Marocco   Mali and Ghana
Egypt   Eritrea   Ethiopia   Indian Ocean - India   Arabian Gulf   Oman   Indian Ocean. Trade
Agriculture/husbandry   Trade and craft



The Past in the Present    Italian Stamps 1862 - 1945



Apart from Jørgen Christian Meyer, Ingvar Brandvik Mæhle and Eivind Heldaas Seland,
Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen,
many colleagues and friends have contributed to this collection. I am deeply grateful for their generosity.


Howaida Abdelrahman, Sven Ahrens, Shamsa Al-Dhaheri, Annette Alstadsæter, Gidske L. Andersen,
Nils Anfinset, Anne Bang, Jens Bech, Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, Håkon Berdinessen, Anders Bjørkelo,
Adam Blitz, Kjetil Bortheim, Rasmus Brandt, Synnøve des Bouvrie, Vibeke Narverud Eilertsen,
Aleksander Engeskaug, Kjartan Bruvik Fykse, Eirik Fære, Sunil Gupta, Magnus Halsnes, Mogens Herman Hansen,
Magnus Halsnes, Zeid Hashim, Willy Haukeland, Christofer Heffermehl, Ingar Holm, Emma E. Horneman, Anette Hyttel,
Torben Isager, Maurice Koenis, Jonatan Krzywinski, Knut Krzywinski, Gabriela Länger, Maria Hyttel Meyer Schrøder,
Michael Hyttel Meyer, Kristian Minck, Astrid Fauskanger Mæhle, Frøydis Nilsen, Güllog Nordquist, Anne Nyquist,
Richard H. Pierce, Per-Bjarne Ravnå, Eirik Rosnes, Torbjørn Preus Schou, Martin O. F. Strand, Eva M. Sund, Birgitte Sørhus,
Kenneth Valdernes, Jorunn Årsand Vinje, Knut Wiborg, Tor Wold, Erik Østby.

All photographs are subject to existing copyright laws.
High resolution copies may be obtained, subject to approval by the photographers, by contacting the editor:

Prof. Dr. phil.

Jørgen Christian Meyer
Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
University of Bergen
PO Box 7805
N-5020 Bergen
Norway