Italy - Latium region - Ostia Antica. 1st century b.C. - 1st century A.D. Forum of Corporations, or Piazzale delle Corporazioni. Mosaic of a cart drawn by a mule

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). House of Orpheus, Orpheus surrounded by animals, detail of a monkey, a horse, an antilope and a gryphon. Mosaic

Lady Frances Nelson 1761 1831 1st Viscountess Nelson Wife of Lord Horatio Nelson From the book The Life of Nelson published 1899

Female Funerary Statue, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece Marble. Found in the ancient cemetery in Stadiou Street, Athens. Circa 1st century AD

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). House of Orpheus, Orpheus surrounded by animals, detail of an elephant. Mosaic

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). House of Orpheus, Orpheus surrounded by animals, detail of a monkey. Mosaic

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). House of Orpheus, Orpheus surrounded by animals, detail of birds on olive branches. Mosaic

Philip Yorke 1st Earl of Hardwicke Viscount Royston aka Baron Hardwicke of Hardwicke 1690 1764 19th century print engraved by W T Fry from a painting by Ramsay

Rome Capitoline Museum Hall of the Triumphs Palazzo dei Conservatori 1st Century BC Bronze sculpture of boy removing thorn from his foot Rome Italy Europe EU

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). Labours of Hercules house, Hercules destroys the Stymphalian birds. Mosaic detail

The Great Temple of Hatra. Known as the first Arab city and ruled by Semite (or Arab dynasties), the city is thought to have been founded by Sanatruq in the 1st century AD.

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). House of Dionysus and the Four Seasons, Dionysus and the Allegory of the Four Seasons, the Spring. Mosaic detail (3rd century A.D.)

The 12th century Cistercian Dundrennan Abbey, founded by David 1st, where Mary Queen of Scots spent her last night on Scottish soil, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

The Tetrapylon and the columned main street dating from the 1st century AD, at the ancient Graeco_Roman city of Palmyra, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Syria, Middle East

Italy - Latium region - Ostia (Rome province) - 1st century b.C. - 1st century A.D. Forum of Corporations. Phoenician-style sailing ship. Mosaic.

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). House of Orpheus, Orpheus surrounded by animals, detail of an eel. Mosaic

Temple of Apademak the lion_god, erected in the 1st century AD by King Natekamani, Old Temple of Naga, The Kingdom of Meroe, Sudan, Africa

Imperial Procession with Augustus and his Family (Detail of Altar of the Augustan Peace) 1st Century B.C. Marble Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome

Fitzroy James Henry Somerset 1st Baron Raglan Lord Raglan 1788 1855 English soldier and commander in chief during the crimean war 19th century print drawn and engraved by J Pound

Detail of the peristyle of 13m high columns from the Roman Temple of Artemis, dating from the 1st century AD, Jerash, one of the ancient Roman cities of the Decapolis, Jordan, Middle East

Roman amphitheatre built in reign of Augustus in the 1st century AD, capacity 15000, main city of Cyprus between 1075 BC and 650 AD, Salamis, North Cyprus, Europe

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). Labours of Hercules house, Hercules fights the 9-headed Lernaean Hydra. Mosaic detail

Ulysses and the Laestrygonians (Detail of Wall Painting from Roman House on the Esquiline Hill) 1st Century BCE Roman Art Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City

Ruins of Jiaone Jiaohe, old capital on the Silk Road, dating from 1st century AD, Turpan Depression, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, Asia

Sir Rowland Hill 1st Viscount Hill of Hawkestone and Hardwicke Baron Hill of Almarez 1772 1842 British General Engraved by Robert Young from a painting by G Dawe

Jordan, Petra View of Treasury from the Siq It's façade is 30m wide and 43m high, carved out of the sheer, dusky pink Carved in the early 1st century as the tomb of an important Nabataean king

George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham aka Sir George Villiers or Baron Whadden Viscount Villiers 1592 1628 Statesman 19th century print engraved by John T Wedgwood from the painting by Cornelius Janfsen

Richard Howe 1st Earl Howe 1726 1799 British Admiral Engraved by Pannemaker Ligny after Linard From Histoire de la Revolution Francaise by Louis Blanc

Jordan, Petra View of Treasury from the Siq It's façade is 30m wide and 43m high, carved out of the sheer, dusky pink Carved in the early 1st century as the tomb of an important Nabataean king

Nabatean Corinthian tomb and urn dating from the 1st century AD in east cliff of Wadi Musa, in Petra, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Jordan, Middle East

Morocco - Meknes-El Menzeh - 3rd century A.D. Ancient city of Volubilis, settled by Romans since 1st century A.D. (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997). Labours of Hercules house, Hercules captures the Cretan Bull. Mosaic detail

The Treasury Khaznat Far'oun, dating from the 1st century BC, at end of Siq, Nabatean archaeological site, Petra, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Jordan, Middle East

The entrance to the Roman Amphitheatre dating from the 1st century AD, at the ancient Graeco_Roman city of Palmyra, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Syria, Middle East