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Ancient Egypt

The side of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Its smooth outer casing was taken away long ago, leaving steps of stone blocks.
Used on: Pyramid · By kallerna · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara, the first pyramid.
Used on: Pyramid · By Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The three great pyramids of Giza, with smaller queens' pyramids in front.
Used on: Pyramid · By Ricardo Liberato · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
The Great Sphinx of Giza, carved from the natural rock.
Used on: Great Sphinx · By Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Between the Sphinx's paws stands the Dream Stele of Thutmose IV, who had the sand cleared away.
Used on: Great Sphinx · By Chanel Wheeler · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
The obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, still standing in the temple of Karnak.
Used on: Obelisk · By Hamerani · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The unfinished obelisk, still lying in its granite quarry at Aswan. It cracked before it could be finished.
Used on: Obelisk · By Olaf Tausch · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
An obelisk from Luxor Temple now stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Used on: Obelisk · By Thesupermat · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The Gayer-Anderson Cat, a bronze of the goddess Bastet about 2,600 years old. British Museum, London.
Used on: Cat statue · By Unknown author · CC BY 2.5 · Original file
A small bronze of Bastet as a woman with a cat's head, holding a basket. Museo Egizio, Turin.
Used on: Cat statue · By Unknown author · CC0 · Original file
The ruins of King Amenhotep III's palace at Malkata, seen from the air.
Used on: Pharaoh's palace · By en:User:Markh · Public domain · Original file
Part of a painted floor from a palace of Akhenaten at Amarna, with plants and birds. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Used on: Pharaoh's palace · By Ovedc · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The gold mask of Tutankhamun, made about 3,350 years ago.
Used on: Royal treasury · By Thomas Clouet · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
One of the Amarna letters: a clay tablet from the ruler of Gezer to the pharaoh, written in cuneiform.
Used on: Royal treasury · By Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The doorway through the great pylon of the temple of Horus at Edfu.
Used on: Temple gateway · By Olaf Tausch · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
An avenue of ram-headed sphinxes leads to the first pylon of Karnak.
Used on: Temple gateway · By Hamerani · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The pylon of Luxor Temple, built by Ramesses II.
Used on: Temple gateway · By Marc Ryckaert · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
Looking up between the giant columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.
Used on: Hall of columns · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Carvings cover the columns at Karnak, and some of the old paint survives.
Used on: Hall of columns · By Tim Adams · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
The Colossi of Memnon: two statues of Amenhotep III that stood at the gate of his memorial temple.
Used on: Twin colossi · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Trajan's Kiosk at Philae, moved stone by stone to a new island to save it from the water.
Used on: Temple kiosk · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The White Chapel of Senusret I at Karnak, a resting place for the god's boat. It was rebuilt from blocks found inside a later gateway.
Used on: Temple kiosk · By Marsupium · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
The Seated Scribe, a painted limestone statue about 4,500 years old. Louvre, Paris.
Used on: Scribe school · By Unknown · Public domain · Original file
An ostracon, a flake of limestone used like scrap paper, with a drawing of an animal and some writing. Louvre, Paris.
Used on: Scribe school · By Phyrexian · Public domain · Original file
The Ramesseum, the memorial temple of Ramesses II at Luxor, where a House of Life was found in 2025.
Used on: House of Life · By Marc Ryckaert · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
Part of the Ebers Papyrus, a medical book about 3,500 years old. This side has a calendar. Leipzig University Library.
Used on: House of Life · By ancient Egypt / Scan by Leipzig University · Public domain · Original file
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a new library that opened in 2002 near the site of the ancient one.
Used on: Great Library · By Hassan Hamdy wahidy · Public domain · Original file
The giant reading room of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Used on: Great Library · By D-Stanley · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A faded market scene from a tomb at Saqqara, about 4,400 years old: in the middle, men trade sandals for grain. Petrie Museum, London.
Used on: Market · By Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Little scribes, ready to write down every sack, from a model granary in the tomb of Meketre (about 1980 BC).
Used on: Granary · By Unknown author · CC0 · Original file
Khufu's ship, about 4,500 years old, now in the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Used on: Boat workshop · By Alena Belova for Exhibo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The pyramids of Giza in 2010. The long building beside the Great Pyramid housed Khufu's ship, near the pit where it was found in 1954.
Used on: Boat workshop · By kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Men carry incense trees home from the land of Punt, carved in Queen Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari.
Used on: Desert camp · By Ismoon (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2020 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Copies of writing that travelers left on the rocks of the Wadi Hammamat, a desert road to the Red Sea, drawn in the 1840s.
Used on: Desert camp · By Scan by NYPL · Public domain · Original file
A garden pool with fish, ducks and fruit trees, painted in the tomb of Nebamun. British Museum, London.
Used on: Lotus garden · By anonymous · Public domain · Original file
Queen Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari. Trees brought from Punt were planted in front of it.
Used on: Lotus garden · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Doum and date palms on the Nile, painted by Marianne North in the 1800s.
Used on: Palm grove · By Marianne North · Public domain · Original file
A doum palm in northern Sudan. Unlike the date palm, its trunk splits into branches.
Used on: Palm grove · By David Haberlah · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The sacred lake of the temple of Karnak, where priests washed before ceremonies.
Used on: Lotus pool · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A blue water lily, the "lotus" of ancient Egypt, in a botanical garden in Japan.
Used on: Lotus pool · By Ermell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Sailing boats called feluccas on the Nile at Aswan.
Used on: Nile sailing boat · By Marc Ryckaert (MJJR) · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
Nebamun hunts birds from a small papyrus boat, in a painting from his tomb. British Museum, London.
Used on: Papyrus boat · By anonymous · Public domain · Original file
Papyrus growing wild by a river in Sicily. Egyptians tied its long stems into bundles to make boats.
Used on: Papyrus boat · By Cayambe · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
Royal bows from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Luxor Museum.
Used on: Archery range · By Marsupium · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A model of a traveling boat and its rowers from the tomb of Meketre, about 4,000 years old. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Used on: Rowing pool · By Unknown author · CC0 · Original file
A model boat with rowers and a canopy for a coffin. Museo Egizio, Turin.
Used on: Rowing pool · By Unknown author · CC0 · Original file
Tutankhamun charges in his chariot, painted on a wooden chest from his tomb.
Used on: Chariot arena · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
Ramesses II in his chariot at the Battle of Kadesh, carved in his temple at Abu Simbel.
Used on: Chariot arena · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Guests, musicians and dancers at a banquet, painted in the tomb of Nebamun. British Museum, London.
Used on: Feast hall · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
Musicians at a banquet, copied from the tomb of Nakht by a modern artist.
Used on: Feast hall · By Norman de Garis Davies · CC0 · Original file
Making mud bricks, copied from an ancient tomb painting for a history book in 1890.
Used on: Mud-brick house · By Chuck Marean · Public domain · Original file
Soul houses: clay models of houses that were left at tombs about 4,000 years ago.
Used on: Town house · By SpeakingArch · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Two clay soul houses from Deir Rifa, with columned porches. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Used on: Town house · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
A board for senet, a favorite Egyptian board game. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Used on: Family house · By Enoch Leung · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A painted toy from Amarna: three monkeys riding in a chariot. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Used on: Family house · By Votpuske · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A stone headrest, used instead of a pillow. Louvre, Paris.
Used on: House with a porch · By Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China · CC0 · Original file
A gilded chair from the tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Used on: House with a porch · By Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States · CC0 · Original file
Stone walls of the houses at Deir el-Medina, the village of the royal tomb builders.
Used on: Village house · By Institute for the Study of the Ancient World · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A plan of the ruins of Amarna, drawn in 1878.
Used on: Courtyard villa · By Rawpixel Ltd · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A model of a porch facing a garden with a pool and trees, from the tomb of Meketre. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Used on: Garden villa · By Unknown author · CC0 · Original file
The scribe Nakht and his wife pray in their garden, beside their house, in his Book of the Dead.
Used on: Garden villa · By Unknown authorUnknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The walls of the fortress of Buhen in Nubia, uncovered by archaeologists before Lake Nasser flooded the site.
Used on: Watchtower · By Rex Keating · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Original file
The fortified gate of Medinet Habu, the temple of Ramesses III, built like a fortress tower.
Used on: Watchtower · By Marc Ryckaert · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
Farmers lifting Nile water with shadufs, in an old engraving.
Used on: Lifting lever · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
The sandstone quarries of Gebel el-Silsila, which supplied stone for many temples.
Used on: Building materials · By Panegyrics of Granovetter · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A small copper model chisel, about 4,700 years old, from the tomb of King Khasekhemui at Abydos. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Used on: Building materials · By Unknown author · CC0 · Original file
One of six chariots found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Used on: Chariot · By Heidi Kontkanen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
Ramesses II in his chariot, followed by three of his sons, copied by explorers in the 1820s.
Used on: Chariot · By Scan by NYPL · Public domain · Original file
A camel ride in front of the pyramid of Khafre at Giza.
Used on: Camel rider · By kallerna · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A camel of the Bedouin herders who live in the Sinai desert, near Saint Catherine's Monastery.
Used on: Camel rider · By Spielvogel · CC0 · Original file
A plowing ox and donkeys carrying loads, copied from a painting in the tomb of Djari at Thebes.
Used on: Ox cart · By Nina M. Davies · CC0 · Original file

Ancient Rome

The Pont du Gard in southern France carried water across the river Gardon to the Roman city of Nîmes.
Used on: Aqueduct · By Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The aqueduct of Segovia, Spain, is built of granite blocks fitted together without mortar.
Used on: Aqueduct · By David Corral Gadea · CC BY-SA 3.0 es · Original file
Arches of the Aqua Claudia in the Park of the Aqueducts, on the edge of Rome.
Used on: Aqueduct · By Emmeca · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A street fountain in Pompeii: a stone basin with a carved spout.
Used on: Public fountain · By Bernard Gagnon · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A small fountain inside a Pompeii house, photographed in the early 1900s.
Used on: Public fountain · By Giorgio Sommer · PDM-owner · Original file
Via dell'Abbondanza, one of Pompeii's main streets, with a fountain basin at the roadside.
Used on: Public fountain · By Carlo Pelagalli · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The massive brick walls of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, opened in AD 216.
Used on: Public baths · By СССР · CC BY-SA 2.5 ca · Original file
The Great Bath at Bath, England, fed by a natural hot spring. The Romans called the town Aquae Sulis.
Used on: Public baths · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A watercolor of the changing room of the Stabian Baths in Pompeii, with niches for clothes.
Used on: Public baths · By Luigi Bazzani · Public domain · Original file
The Colosseum seen from the Roman Forum.
Used on: Amphitheater · By Wilfredor · CC0 · Original file
The hypogeum: the underground passages and rooms beneath the Colosseum's arena floor.
Used on: Amphitheater · By Jouri de vylder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A surviving section of the outer wall of the Arena di Verona, Italy.
Used on: Amphitheater · By NorbertNagel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The amphitheater at El Jem, Tunisia, one of the best preserved in Africa.
Used on: Amphitheater · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Circus Maximus today: the long grassy valley still follows the shape of the track.
Used on: Chariot racetrack (circus) · By Peter Clarke · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The Circus of Maxentius beside the Via Appia, with one of its towers still standing.
Used on: Chariot racetrack (circus) · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Spectators watching a race, from a Roman mosaic.
Used on: Chariot racetrack (circus) · By TyB · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
The remains of the Ludus Magnus, with the curved edge of its training arena.
Used on: Gladiator school · By Jastrow · Public domain · Original file
The Ludus Magnus lies right beside the Colosseum.
Used on: Gladiator school · By Philip Mallis from Melbourne · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A 19th-century painting of the Roman Forum, with the columns of the Temple of Saturn.
Used on: Forum · By Constantin Hansen · Public domain · Original file
The Forum of Trajan, with the curving brick front of Trajan's Market behind.
Used on: Forum · By Alvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The entrance to the Building of Eumachia on the forum of Pompeii.
Used on: Forum · By Marco Ober · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Three huge vaults of the Basilica of Maxentius still stand beside the Roman Forum.
Used on: Basilica · By Jebulon · CC0 · Original file
A plaque marking the site of the Basilica Julia in the Roman Forum.
Used on: Basilica · By Jebulon · CC0 · Original file
Columns of the Basilica Ulpia in the Forum of Trajan.
Used on: Basilica · By Cayambe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Inside the Curia Julia, with its marble floor and the low steps where senators sat.
Used on: Senate house (curia) · By Photo taken by myself Dneale52 (talk) · Public domain · Original file
The eight columns of the Temple of Saturn, where the state treasury was kept.
Used on: Treasury (Temple of Saturn) · By Diana Ringo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A silver denarius showing the emperor Caracalla.
Used on: Treasury (Temple of Saturn) · By Graearms · CC0 · Original file
A gold aureus showing the emperor Domitian.
Used on: Treasury (Temple of Saturn) · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
The Maison Carrée in Nîmes, France, one of the best-preserved Roman temples.
Used on: Temple · By Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Temple of Portunus beside the river Tiber in Rome.
Used on: Temple · By Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, Lebanon, built when the city was part of the Roman Empire.
Used on: Temple · By Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
The Pantheon's columned porch. The inscription names Marcus Agrippa.
Used on: The Pantheon · By daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A beam of sunlight through the oculus moves across the inside of the dome.
Used on: The Pantheon · By NormanB · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Looking up into the dome: rings of sunken coffers lead to the open oculus.
Used on: The Pantheon · By Wilfredor · CC0 · Original file
The partly rebuilt Temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum.
Used on: Temple of Vesta · By Jebulon · CC0 · Original file
The round temple at Tivoli, near Rome, often linked with Vesta.
Used on: Temple of Vesta · By LPLT · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
An inscribed statue base in the courtyard of the House of the Vestals.
Used on: Temple of Vesta · By Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome began as the round mausoleum of the emperor Hadrian.
Used on: Mausoleum (round tomb) · By Jebulon · CC0 · Original file
The inscription on the Tomb of Caecilia Metella on the Via Appia.
Used on: Mausoleum (round tomb) · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The round Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome.
Used on: Mausoleum (round tomb) · By MumblerJamie · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A carved panel inside the Arch of Titus showing a triumphal procession.
Used on: Triumphal arch · By Jebulon · CC0 · Original file
The Arch of Constantine beside the Colosseum.
Used on: Triumphal arch · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman Forum.
Used on: Triumphal arch · By Tournasol7 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Trajan's Column in Rome, with its spiral band of carvings.
Used on: Victory column · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Piazza Colonna.
Used on: Victory column · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A detail of the carvings on Trajan's Column.
Used on: Victory column · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
A marble portrait head of Augustus, the first emperor.
Used on: Statue of the emperor · By Unknown artistUnknown artist · CC BY 2.5 · Original file
The bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius on horseback on the Capitoline Hill (a copy; the original is in the museum).
Used on: Statue of the emperor · By Alvesgaspar · Public domain · Original file
A bronze portrait head of the emperor Constantine.
Used on: Statue of the emperor · By Wilfredor · CC0 · Original file
Ruins of the private wing of Domitian's palace on the Palatine Hill.
Used on: Imperial palace · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The sunken garden shaped like a racetrack in the Palatine palace.
Used on: Imperial palace · By dalbera · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
Ruins of the public wing of the palace on the Palatine Hill.
Used on: Imperial palace · By Sonse · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
Painted walls inside the House of Diana, an apartment block in Ostia.
Used on: Apartment block (insula) · By Massimop · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A street of apartment buildings and shops in Ostia, Rome's ancient port.
Used on: Apartment block (insula) · By Massimop · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The House of the Faun in Pompeii, named after the bronze dancing figure in its atrium pool.
Used on: Town house (domus) · By Abxbay · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
An impluvium in Pompeii: the shallow pool that caught rain from the opening in the roof.
Used on: Town house (domus) · By Norbert Nagel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A peristyle garden inside a Pompeii town house.
Used on: Town house (domus) · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Canopus, a long pool lined with statues at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli.
Used on: Country villa · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A floor mosaic from the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, showing animals being loaded onto a ship.
Used on: Country villa · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
A colonnade at the Villa of Poppaea at Oplontis, near Pompeii.
Used on: Country villa · By Jebulon · CC0 · Original file
Villa Regina at Boscoreale, a small Roman farm near Pompeii, with vines replanted.
Used on: Farmhouse (villa rustica) · By Norbert Nagel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Large clay storage jars (dolia) at Ostia.
Used on: Farmhouse (villa rustica) · By AlMare · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The stone bed of an ancient press, used to squeeze grapes or olives.
Used on: Farmhouse (villa rustica) · By Jebulon · CC0 · Original file
Trajan's Market in Rome, a curving complex of shops and offices on several levels.
Used on: Street shop (taberna) · By NikonZ7II · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Millstones and a brick oven in a Pompeii bakery.
Used on: Street shop (taberna) · By Isaac Harjo of Prowalk Tours · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A painted sign in Ostia showing food and drink for sale.
Used on: Street shop (taberna) · By G41rn8 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A snack bar counter in Pompeii with jars set into the top.
Used on: Snack bar (thermopolium) · By Bernard Gagnon · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
Another Pompeii snack bar, with its L-shaped counter facing the street.
Used on: Snack bar (thermopolium) · By Jamie Heath from United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A snack bar in Ostia, with its counter, shelves and painted wall.
Used on: Snack bar (thermopolium) · By Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
The Via Appia outside Rome, with its ancient paving stones.
Used on: Roadside inn · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A serving counter with built-in jars in Pompeii, where travelers and locals bought food and drink.
Used on: Roadside inn · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A replica Roman milestone, carved with distance information.
Used on: Roadside inn · By Pierre André Leclercq · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The decorated brick entrance of the Horrea Epagathiana, a warehouse in Ostia.
Used on: Warehouse (horrea) · By Sailko · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
Amphorae: clay jars used to ship oil and wine.
Used on: Warehouse (horrea) · By Titinboudek · CC0 · Original file
Monte Testaccio in Rome, a hill made of broken olive-oil jars.
Used on: Warehouse (horrea) · By No machine-readable author provided. Lalupa assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain · Original file
A modern replica of a Roman wax writing tablet with a stylus.
Used on: School · By Peter van der Sluijs · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A carved relief from Neumagen, Germany, showing a teacher with pupils holding scrolls and a writing tablet.
Used on: School · By Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A Roman inkwell.
Used on: School · By Jonathan Cardy · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The rebuilt front of the Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Turkey.
Used on: Library · By Benh LIEU SONG · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The Library of Hadrian in Athens, Greece.
Used on: Library · By Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A page from a scroll found in a villa at Herculaneum.
Used on: Library · By unknown, held at British Library · Public domain · Original file
The Capitoline Hill seen from the Forum. The lower arches are part of the Tabularium.
Used on: Records office (tabularium) · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A bronze tablet with the text of a Roman law, in the Capitoline Museums.
Used on: Records office (tabularium) · By José Luiz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A drawing of the peristyle garden in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii.
Used on: Garden courtyard · By Author Vitruvius Translator Morris Hicky Morgan Photo Sommer · Public domain · Original file
Part of the painted garden from the villa of Livia at Prima Porta.
Used on: Garden courtyard · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
The replanted formal garden at Fishbourne Roman Palace, England.
Used on: Garden courtyard · By mattbuck (category) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Ancient olive trees in southern Italy.
Used on: Olive grove · By Isiwal · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A fragment of a Roman clay oil lamp.
Used on: Olive grove · By Rama · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr · Original file
The Aurelian Walls at the Porta Asinaria in Rome.
Used on: City walls and towers · By MrPanyGoff · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Porta San Sebastiano, where the Via Appia leaves Rome through the Aurelian Walls.
Used on: City walls and towers · By Ardeatino · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
Hadrian's Wall near Housesteads Roman Fort, England.
Used on: City walls and towers · By Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Tower of Hercules on its headland at A Coruña, Spain.
Used on: Lighthouse · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Inside the Roman lighthouse at Dover Castle, England.
Used on: Lighthouse · By Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A drawing of the relief from the Tomb of the Haterii, showing a treadwheel crane beside a building.
Used on: Treadwheel crane · By Unknown artistUnknown artist · Public domain · Original file
Opus reticulatum in Pompeii: small square stones set in a net pattern over concrete.
Used on: Building materials · By Jensens · Public domain · Original file
A Roman clay tile with a maker's stamp and the footprints of an animal that walked on it while it was drying.
Used on: Building materials · By Kleuske · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Marble quarries in the mountains near Carrara, Italy, the Roman Luna.
Used on: Building materials · By Ingo Mehling · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The column at Brindisi, in southern Italy, that marks the end of the Via Appia, the first great Roman road.
Used on: Ox cart · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Roman paving stones by the remains of a Roman bridge at Piercebridge, England.
Used on: Ox cart · By Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
The Circus Maximus in Rome today, a long grassy park below the ruins of the emperors' palace on the Palatine Hill.
Used on: Chariot · By Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A Roman mosaic from Lyon, France, showing a chariot race in a circus, with the central barrier.
Used on: Chariot · By John Samuel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The quadriga, a chariot pulled by four horses, on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (a much later statue in the Roman style).
Used on: Chariot · By א (Aleph) Creator: Johann Gottfried Schadow · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Original file
Pieces of broken amphorae at Monte Testaccio in Rome, a hill made almost entirely of old olive oil jars.
Used on: Donkey cart · By Flazaza · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Roman amphorae displayed beneath the amphitheater in Pula, Croatia.
Used on: Donkey cart · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A stretch of old road near Villach, Austria, along the line of a Roman road.
Used on: Donkey cart · By Johann Jaritz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A decorated sedan chair, a later relative of the Roman litter, in Amalfi, Italy.
Used on: Litter · By Bernard Gagnon · CC BY 4.0 · Original file

Modern Town

The timber frame of a new house: walls, floors and roof are framed before being covered.
Used on: Family house · By CEphoto, Uwe Aranas · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Craftsman-style bungalows with front porches in Buffalo, New York.
Used on: Family house · By Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A new concrete foundation, which spreads the weight of the house into the ground.
Used on: Family house · By Khaosaming · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
An early house in Levittown, New York, one of the first mass-produced postwar suburbs.
Used on: Suburban house · By Found5dollar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Suburban streets from above: curving cul-de-sacs with few through routes for walking.
Used on: Suburban house · By Tony Webster · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A blower door test: a fan in the doorway measures how much air leaks out of a house.
Used on: Older brick house · By Still life with noodles · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A thermal image from above, with colors showing which homes are losing the most heat.
Used on: Older brick house · By Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domain · Original file
The outdoor unit of an air-source heat pump, still heating a home in the snow.
Used on: Older brick house · By PeterEastern · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna, a famous public housing block with more than a kilometer of apartments around courtyards.
Used on: Apartment building · By Thomas Ledl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Balconies give each apartment in a modern apartment building some outdoor space.
Used on: Apartment building · By Alfred Twu · CC0 · Original file
The giant tuned mass damper inside Taipei 101 swings to reduce the tower's sway.
Used on: Residential tower · By Armand du Plessis · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
Marina City in Chicago: two round residential towers with parking on the lower floors.
Used on: Residential tower · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Shops on the ground floor with homes above, on Hudson Street in New York.
Used on: Shops with homes above · By Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A new mixed-use building in Minneapolis with a grocery store below and apartments above.
Used on: Shops with homes above · By Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
Inside the tower of Philadelphia City Hall, one of the largest city halls in the United States.
Used on: Town hall · By Antigng · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The council chamber of Glasgow City Chambers, where elected councillors meet.
Used on: Town hall · By Michael D Beckwith · CC0 · Original file
The Pennsylvania State Capitol, one of many US state capitols with a dome.
Used on: Capitol building · By Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The dome of the United States Capitol under construction during the Civil War.
Used on: Capitol building · By Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress · Public domain · Original file
The dome of the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
Used on: Capitol building · By Daderot · CC0 · Original file
A community mental health center in Taipei, Taiwan.
Used on: Health clinic · By Solomon203 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A vaccine vial and syringe: vaccinations are a core part of primary care.
Used on: Health clinic · By The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Elizabeth Tower in London, home of the bell known as Big Ben.
Used on: Clock tower · By Julian Herzog (Website) · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A plaque marking where railway officials adopted standard time zones in the United States in 1883.
Used on: Clock tower · By Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A zebra crossing with clear white stripes.
Used on: Streets and crosswalks · By Yu Chu Chin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A curb ramp with tactile paving that blind and partially sighted people can feel underfoot.
Used on: Streets and crosswalks · By Ezekielf · CC0 · Original file
A child riding a balance bike on a separated cycle path in Lisbon.
Used on: Streets and crosswalks · By Jules Verne Times Two · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Flocculation and sedimentation basins at a water treatment plant, where particles clump and settle out.
Used on: Water system · By Judd, Bruce D. · Public domain · Original file
A water tower: its height keeps water in the pipes below under pressure.
Used on: Water system · By Grendelkhan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
John Snow's 1854 map of cholera deaths in London, clustered around the Broad Street water pump.
Used on: Water system · By John Snow · Public domain · Original file
A first-order Fresnel lens, made of rings of glass prisms, at Point Reyes Lighthouse, California.
Used on: Lighthouse · By Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Portland Head Light on the rocky coast of Maine.
Used on: Lighthouse · By King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Gentry Fire Lookout Tower in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, Arizona.
Used on: Fire lookout tower · By US Forest Service - Apache Sitgreaves National Forests · Public domain · Original file
A lookout sighting a fire with an Osborne Fire Finder (historical photograph).
Used on: Fire lookout tower · By Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domain · Original file
A small Carnegie library, one of thousands paid for by Andrew Carnegie.
Used on: Public library · By Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The great reading room of the New York Public Library.
Used on: Public library · By Diliff · CC BY 2.5 · Original file
Crow Island School in Illinois (1940), designed around children, with low windows and classrooms opening onto gardens.
Used on: School · By Zol87 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
A high school classroom in Washington, DC, in 1899.
Used on: School · By Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), photographer · Public domain · Original file
A hands-on exhibit about microbes at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Used on: Science center and observatory · By Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
An observatory dome under the Milky Way, far from city lights.
Used on: Science center and observatory · By Astrobond · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
Used on: Cultural center · By Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.
Used on: Cultural center · By DiscoA340 · CC0 · Original file
Shelves in a New York corner store, or "bodega", where neighbors buy everyday food.
Used on: Corner store · By Seth Werkheiser · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
An office building in Kyoto, Japan, with a patterned facade.
Used on: Office building · By Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Seagram Building in New York (1958), famous for its bronze and glass curtain wall.
Used on: Office building · By dandeluca · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
The Art Deco Chrysler Building rising among Manhattan's skyscrapers.
Used on: Skyscraper · By Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest building.
Used on: Skyscraper · By Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
Pallet racking inside a modern warehouse, with a forklift truck.
Used on: Warehouse · By Axisadman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Giant gantry cranes unloading shipping containers at the Port of Miami.
Used on: Warehouse · By Ines Hegedus-Garcia · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
Hull House in Chicago, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr as a settlement house offering classes and help to neighbors.
Used on: Community center · By User talk:Hied5 · Public domain · Original file
A sculpture in the Fountain of Neptune in Piazza Navona, Rome.
Used on: Public square and fountain · By Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Movable chairs in Bryant Park, New York, let people choose where to sit.
Used on: Public square and fountain · By NWhits · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A white church steeple in New England.
Used on: Church · By Carol M. Highsmith · Public domain · Original file
A stone campfire ring and log seating at a forest campsite.
Used on: Outdoor gathering circle · By Morrowlong · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
An outdoor fire pit in a park.
Used on: Outdoor gathering circle · By Chicken4War · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Washington Monument, a stone obelisk in Washington, DC.
Used on: Memorial · By Diliff · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Original file
Flags left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, DC.
Used on: Memorial · By Austin Kirk · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
The untitled Picasso sculpture in Chicago's Daley Plaza (1967).
Used on: Public art · By jetzenpolis from USA · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A colorful mural beside a community garden in Philadelphia.
Used on: Public art · By Nick-philly · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Lake in Central Park, New York, with the city skyline beyond.
Used on: City park · By Superbass · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A neighborhood park in Hoboken, New Jersey, seen from above.
Used on: City park · By King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A rain garden: a planted dip that soaks up storm water from nearby surfaces.
Used on: City park · By BrianAsh at English Wikipedia(Uploads) · Public domain · Original file
An adventure playground with structures children help build and change.
Used on: Treehouse playground · By Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A climbing frame in a Stockholm playground.
Used on: Treehouse playground · By Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A sports field with floodlights in New Zealand.
Used on: Sports field · By Wainuio · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Field hockey on an artificial turf field.
Used on: Sports field · By Clément Bucco-Lechat · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A packed stadium bowl, with seats rising steeply around the field.
Used on: Stadium · By Blervis · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Wembley Stadium in London filled with spectators.
Used on: Stadium · By McPhail · CC0 · Original file
An outdoor gym in a public park in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Used on: Recreation center · By Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A YMCA building in Victoria, British Columbia.
Used on: Recreation center · By Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Raised garden beds, which are easier to reach and can be filled with clean soil.
Used on: Community garden · By Robbie Sproule from Montreal, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A Second World War poster encouraging people to plant victory gardens.
Used on: Community garden · By Boston Public Library · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A tower crane with its long jib and counterweight.
Used on: Tower crane · By Lee Ann Ratledge · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A tower crane working on a building in Moscow.
Used on: Tower crane · By Dmitry Ivanov. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Steel reinforcing bar (rebar) nets, ready to be set inside concrete.
Used on: Building materials · By W.carter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A brick wall laid in a pattern called a bond, which makes it stronger.
Used on: Building materials · By Acabashi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A small electric car charging at a public charging point in Stuttgart, Germany.
Used on: Family car · By Julian Herzog (Website) · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A yellow New York City taxi. Licensed street taxis there must be yellow.
Used on: Taxi · By S5A-0043 · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A wheelchair-accessible taxi at a taxi rank in Brisbane, Australia.
Used on: Taxi · By John Robert McPherson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
An electric pickup truck, the Ford F-150 Lightning, at a motor show.
Used on: Pickup truck · By Alexander-93 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A 1956 Chevrolet pickup. Older pickups were lower and smaller than many of today's.
Used on: Pickup truck · By Palauenc05 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A small delivery van at a trade show in Germany.
Used on: Delivery van · By MB-one · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A cargo tricycle carrying a huge load through Shanghai.
Used on: Delivery van · By Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A parcel locker in Astana, Kazakhstan, where people collect deliveries themselves.
Used on: Delivery van · By Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file

Green World

A living root bridge in Meghalaya, India, grown from the aerial roots of rubber fig trees.
Used on: Great tree hall · By Joydeep Chakraborty · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The famous double-decker living root bridge near Nongriat village, Meghalaya.
Used on: Great tree hall · By PJeganathan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A "plane tree cube" in Germany: a Baubotanik structure where living plane trees are grown and grafted into a building frame.
Used on: Great tree hall · By Nicolás Boullosa from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
Leaf cells of a moss under a microscope. The green specks are chloroplasts, where photosynthesis happens.
Used on: Sunlight hall · By Des_Callaghan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A steel treehouse support that the tree has slowly grown around.
Used on: Treetop village · By Vitus Wahlländer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A raised wooden path through Hatfield Forest, England, which protects the ground and tree roots.
Used on: Treetop village · By Acabashi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The two tree-covered towers of Bosco Verticale (right) on the Milan skyline.
Used on: Tree tower home · By Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Looking up through bamboo scaffolding on a building in Hong Kong.
Used on: Living crane · By Evancyk · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A bamboo forest in Arashiyama, Kyoto. Bamboo is a giant, fast-growing grass.
Used on: Living crane · By Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Earth houses in Switzerland, built into grassy mounds around a pond.
Used on: Hillside home · By Archi0780 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Traditional turf houses at Glaumbær, Iceland, insulated by thick walls and roofs of earth and grass.
Used on: Hillside home · By Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A tall timber building in Norway, where engineered wood is used to build upward.
Used on: Timber family house · By Øyvind Holmstad · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Cross-laminated timber panels forming the walls and ceiling of a building.
Used on: Timber family house · By RoterRolf · CC0 · Original file
The Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, with its rows of chimneys for natural ventilation.
Used on: Breathing spire · By David Brazier · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The tall windcatcher of Dowlatabad Garden in Yazd, Iran, which draws air through the building below.
Used on: Breathing spire · By Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A tray of sedum plants, a common choice for green roofs because they survive drought.
Used on: Green-roof cottage · By Skasnl - groendakmaterialen.nl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The green roof on top of Chicago City Hall.
Used on: Green-roof cottage · By TonyTheTiger · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A straw bale wall before plastering.
Used on: Forest cottage · By Trociny-atakujo · CC0 · Original file
A doorway framed by climbing plants at the Alcázar of Seville, Spain.
Used on: Leafy cottage · By Jebulon · CC0 · Original file
Flowering climbers on a building in Sirmione, Italy.
Used on: Leafy cottage · By NorbertNagel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A small house built from mycelium bricks, shown at the New York Botanical Garden in 2024.
Used on: Mushroom cottage · By SnowFire · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
Arcata Marsh in California, where marshes help clean the town's wastewater and provide a wildlife sanctuary.
Used on: Wetland fountain · By Monotropa_uniflora (talk) (Uploads) · Public domain · Original file
A reed bed: a constructed wetland where water flows through gravel among the roots of reeds.
Used on: Wetland fountain · By SuSanA Secretariat · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A bioswale: a planted channel beside a street that catches and filters storm water.
Used on: Rain garden court · By Eric Fischer · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
The Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskill Mountains, part of New York City's protected water supply.
Used on: Spring circle · By Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
"Autumn in the Catskills", a painting by Jervis McEntee (1828-1891).
Used on: Spring circle · By Jervis McEntee · Public domain · Original file
A clear spring-fed creek running through rocks.
Used on: Spring circle · By Sixflashphoto · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The wheel of a Pelton turbine, a type of turbine spun by jets of water in hydropower plants.
Used on: Waterfall tower · By Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A fish ladder beside a hydropower plant in Roermond, Netherlands, letting fish swim past.
Used on: Waterfall tower · By Michielverbeek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Hellisheiði geothermal power station in Iceland, which also supplies hot water for heating Reykjavík.
Used on: Warm gathering circle · By ThinkGeoEnergy · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
The Blue Lagoon in Iceland, a pool of warm water from a nearby geothermal power plant.
Used on: Warm gathering circle · By Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A bumblebee feeding on lavender.
Used on: Pollinator meadow · By Martin Falbisoner · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
An insect hotel: a shelter with holes and hollow stems where solitary bees can nest.
Used on: Pollinator meadow · By Sixflashphoto · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Looking up through a tunnel of trees in Fort Canning Park, Singapore.
Used on: Tiny forest · By DianaAndassova · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A wildlife overpass across Colorado State Highway 9, planted so animals can cross safely.
Used on: Stag crossing · By Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
Part of the Knepp Estate rewilding project in southern England.
Used on: Deer statue · By Steer Photographic · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A beaver dam holding back a stream in Poland. Beaver ponds store water and create wetlands.
Used on: Deer statue · By Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
Exmoor ponies grazing, used in some rewilding projects to keep grassland open.
Used on: Deer statue · By Pengannel · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
The Milky Way reflected in a mountain lake far from city lights, in Switzerland.
Used on: Star dome · By Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Milky Way rising over mountains on a dark night.
Used on: Star dome · By Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A small mushroom of the genus Mycena. Some Mycena species glow in the dark.
Used on: Firefly tower · By Alan Rockefeller · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, dug into a mountain in the Arctic.
Used on: Seed library · By Dag Endresen · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
The Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst, England, run by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Used on: Seed library · By Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A woodland classroom in Rosewell, Scotland.
Used on: Forest school · By studioRRcasoluengo|Roberto Rodriguez Casoluengo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Cherry blossom in Kyoto, Japan, where blossom dates have been recorded for centuries.
Used on: Seasons tower · By Hahifuheho · CC0 · Original file
A Stevenson screen: a white, slatted box that shades weather instruments.
Used on: Seasons tower · By peter robinson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009 for her research on the commons.
Used on: Council terrace · By US Embassy Sweden · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
Urnerboden, a Swiss alpine pasture. Swiss farming communities have shared mountain pastures under their own rules for centuries.
Used on: Council terrace · By Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Rice terraces in Bali, watered through the traditional subak system of shared irrigation.
Used on: Council terrace · By Philip Nalangan · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
The Senedd building in Cardiff Bay, home of the Welsh Parliament, which passed the Well-being of Future Generations Act.
Used on: Palace of the long future · By The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A quiet path through heathland and woods in Germany.
Used on: Forest training grove · By Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
An ancient Japanese cedar in a forest in Japan.
Used on: Forest training grove · By David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A canopy walkway at the Rainforest Discovery Centre in Sepilok, Sabah, Malaysia.
Used on: Canopy climbing course · By CEphoto, Uwe Aranas · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The curved stone seats of the ancient Greek theater at Epidaurus.
Used on: Open-air theater · By Orlovic · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver, Colorado, in 1941.
Used on: Open-air theater · By Unknown author · Public domain · Original file
The Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain, a giant wooden shade structure nicknamed "the mushrooms".
Used on: Canopy market · By Benjamin Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A fruit and vegetable stall at a farmers' market.
Used on: Harvest market hall · By Nick-D · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Food scraps ready to be composted and returned to the soil.
Used on: Harvest market hall · By Philip Cohen · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
Volunteers help people mend their belongings at a Repair Café in the Netherlands.
Used on: Repair workshop · By Ilvy Njiokiktjien · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A 19th-century woodworker's bench with many hand tools.
Used on: Repair workshop · By Jorge Royan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Water droplets beading on a lotus leaf: the "lotus effect" keeps the leaf clean.
Used on: Nature's materials · By Aathavan jaffna · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A Shinkansen 500 series train, whose long nose helped reduce noise from tunnels.
Used on: Nature's materials · By JobanLineE531 at Japanese Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
A man holding a reindeer harnessed to a sled on the Finnmark plateau in northern Norway (historical photograph).
Used on: Deer sleigh · By Elisabeth Meyer / Preus Museum · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
A draft horse pulling logs out of a forest in the Hautes Fagnes nature park, Belgium.
Used on: Flower cart · By Trougnouf · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A cargo tricycle carrying a huge load through Shanghai.
Used on: Flower cart · By Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A car body frame made from flax fiber composite, built as a test of plant-based materials.
Used on: Mushroom carriage · By Ben sayer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Jars made with hemp fibers, a plant-based alternative to plastic.
Used on: Mushroom carriage · By JeremiahDutton · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file

Robotic Future

Inside BEAM, the expandable module attached to the International Space Station in 2016.
Used on: Pod home · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
A map of the Moon's south pole region, where NASA plans to land Artemis astronauts.
Used on: Moon base home · By Surprizi · CC0 · Original file
An artist's concept of a future Moon base with habitats, rovers and solar power.
Used on: Moon base home · By NASA/SAIC/Pat Rawlings · Public domain · Original file
An astronaut cleaning and servicing life support components on the International Space Station.
Used on: Life support dome · By NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · Original file
Inside the Destiny laboratory on the space station, packed with equipment racks.
Used on: Life support dome · By NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · Original file
Inside the 3D-printed Mars Dune Alpha habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center, used for CHAPEA simulated Mars missions.
Used on: Printed shelter · By NASA/Bill Stafford · Public domain · Original file
The mission patch of CHAPEA, NASA's year-long simulated Mars missions on Earth.
Used on: Printed shelter · By NASA-JSC / Blake Dumesnil · Public domain · Original file
A test of the parachutes of NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is designed to carry crews to the Moon.
Used on: Radiation storm shelter · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
A powerful solar flare in 2013, seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in four wavelengths.
Used on: Radiation storm shelter · By NASA/SDO · Public domain · Original file
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, his suit covered in clinging lunar dust (1972).
Used on: Airlock and suit hangar · By NASA Eugene Cernan · Public domain · Original file
An astronaut working on part of the space station's urine processor, which turns urine back into drinking water.
Used on: Water recycler · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
An astronaut holding a part of the space station's water recycling system that had to be replaced.
Used on: Water recycler · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
Biosphere 2 in Arizona, a sealed glass-and-steel world where eight people lived from 1991 to 1993.
Used on: Greenhouse dome · By Jesuiseduardo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Lettuce growing under LEDs in NASA's Veggie system on the International Space Station.
Used on: Indoor farm · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
An astronaut looking out at Earth from the space station's Cupola, a favorite place for many crew members.
Used on: Tree pod habitat · By NASA/Tracy Caldwell Dyson · Public domain · Original file
An artist's view of the LCROSS mission, which crashed a rocket stage into a lunar crater in 2009 and detected water.
Used on: Ice mine and water works · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
The Moon's south pole region seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Dark craters may hide water ice.
Used on: Ice mine and water works · By NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University · Public domain · Original file
Engineers installing MOXIE, the oxygen-making experiment, into the Perseverance rover.
Used on: Oxygen factory · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
A selfie taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars.
Used on: Oxygen factory · By NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS · Public domain · Original file
The Kilopower reactor experiment (KRUSTY), tested by NASA and the US Department of Energy in 2018.
Used on: Power tower · By NASA Glenn · Public domain · Original file
An astronaut riding on the end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm during a spacewalk.
Used on: Robotics factory · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
A metal 3D printer on the International Space Station, testing how to make metal parts in space (2024).
Used on: Fabrication shop · By NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · Original file
Astronaut Barry Wilmore holding a ratchet wrench 3D printed on the space station from a design sent from Earth.
Used on: Fabrication shop · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
The Canadarm2 robotic arm grappling a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship.
Used on: Robotic crane · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
A jar of lunar regolith simulant, a material made on Earth to copy Moon soil for testing.
Used on: Space building materials · By ArnoldReinhold · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson running on the COLBERT treadmill, held down by a harness.
Used on: Low-gravity gym · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
An astronaut exercising on the space station to protect bones and muscles.
Used on: Low-gravity gym · By NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · Original file
A cutaway artwork of the Stanford torus, a 1970s NASA study of a huge rotating space settlement.
Used on: Spinning gravity arena · By NASA/Rick Guidice · Public domain · Original file
A short-arm human centrifuge at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), used to study artificial gravity.
Used on: Spinning gravity arena · By Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A Gemini spacecraft tethered to an Agena rocket stage in 1966. On Gemini 11, a tether like this was spun to create a tiny amount of artificial gravity.
Used on: Spinning gravity arena · By NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · Original file
An astronaut using ultrasound to image an eye on the space station.
Used on: Medical bay · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
Astronauts practicing medical skills before a long mission.
Used on: Medical bay · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
Crew members sharing a meal at the galley on the International Space Station.
Used on: Community plaza · By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). · Public domain · Original file
The signing of the Outer Space Treaty in 1967.
Used on: Civic dome · By ITU · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
France signing the Artemis Accords.
Used on: Civic dome · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
Glove boxes in NASA's Lunar Sample Laboratory, where Moon rocks are handled without touching the air.
Used on: Science lab · By Pi3.124 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Looking into a sample tube filled with Martian soil collected by the Perseverance rover.
Used on: Science lab · By NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · Original file
Antennas of the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico.
Used on: Far-side radio telescope · By The Modern Polymath · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
China's Yutu-2 rover leaving the Chang'e 4 lander on the far side of the Moon in 2019.
Used on: Far-side radio telescope · By CNSA · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
A giant dish antenna at Goldstone, California, part of NASA's Deep Space Network.
Used on: Communications relay · By Unknown author · Public domain · Original file
A coronal mass ejection: a huge cloud of charged gas thrown out by the Sun.
Used on: Space weather station · By NASA/SOHO · Public domain · Original file
The southern lights (aurora australis) seen from the International Space Station.
Used on: Space weather station · By ISS Expedition 23 crew · Public domain · Original file
Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot tested on the space station.
Used on: Hologram hall · By Robert Markowitz · Public domain · Original file
Members of the team that operates the Perseverance rover from Earth.
Used on: Hologram hall · By NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · Original file
A free-flying Astrobee robot helper aboard the International Space Station.
Used on: Robot monument · By NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · Original file
A panorama from Mars Pathfinder, which landed in 1997 with the small Sojourner rover.
Used on: Robot monument · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
A water deluge test at Launch Complex 39A: water floods the pad to absorb heat and sound at launch.
Used on: Launch pad · By Kim Shiflett · Public domain · Original file
A Falcon 9 first stage after landing upright, ready to be reused.
Used on: Spaceport · By SpaceX Photos · CC0 · Original file
The Space Shuttle Atlantis being towed after its final landing in 2011.
Used on: Spaceport · By Kim Shiflett · Public domain · Original file
A NASA concept painting of a space elevator.
Used on: Space elevator anchor · By NASA/Pat Rawlings · Public domain · Original file
Diagrams of different types of carbon nanotubes, one of the strongest materials known.
Used on: Space elevator anchor · By User Mstroeck on en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin with the Lunar Roving Vehicle and lunar module in 1971.
Used on: Rover test track · By Astronaut David R. Scott, Apollo 15 commander. · Public domain · Original file
The Apollo 17 rover's fender repaired with maps and tape after it broke, to stop dust spraying the crew.
Used on: Rover test track · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
Mission Control in Houston during Apollo 13, when the team worked to bring the crew home safely.
Used on: Mission control · By NASA · Public domain · Original file
Flight director Gene Kranz at his console in Mission Control.
Used on: Mission control · By Adam Cuerden · Public domain · Original file
The space station flight control room in Houston.
Used on: Settlement operations center · By James Blair · Public domain · Original file
The Shanghai Maglev train, which floats on magnets on its way to the city's airport.
Used on: Hover car · By kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A hovercraft at the hoverport in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, England, which has a passenger hovercraft service.
Used on: Hover car · By mattbuck (category) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The control console of the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Used on: Pressurized rover · By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · Public domain · Original file
Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin beside the flag, the lunar module and the Lunar Roving Vehicle in 1971.
Used on: Pressurized rover · By NASA Johnson Space Center Restored by Bammesk · Public domain · Original file
An autonomous haul truck at a mine, driven by a computer instead of a person.
Used on: Cargo pod · By RobSimmons223311 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A small delivery robot carrying a parcel along a city sidewalk in Tartu, Estonia.
Used on: Cargo pod · By Sillerkiil · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
A model of the Nova-C lunar lander, which landed on the Moon in 2024 as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services.
Used on: Cargo pod · By NASA Marshall Space Flight Center / Intuitive Machines · Public domain · Original file
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, photographed by the Perseverance rover.
Used on: Drone taxi · By semeion.photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
An artist's view of NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft landing on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Used on: Drone taxi · By NASA/JHU-APL · Public domain · Original file
A Volocopter, an electric air taxi prototype with many small rotors, at a motor show in Frankfurt.
Used on: Drone taxi · By Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file

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A Great Basin bristlecone pine in the mountains of the western United States. Some of these trees are nearly 5,000 years old.
Used on: Tree of life · By Dcrjsr · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A rainbow after the rain, with a gull flying past.
Used on: Rainbow pavilion · By Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Angel of the North, a steel sculpture by Antony Gormley near Gateshead, England.
Used on: Angel statue · By Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The courtyard beside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, with a statue of Jerome, who translated the Bible into Latin while living in Bethlehem.
Used on: Welcome hall · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The Door of Humility, the low entrance to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Visitors bow to go in.
Used on: Welcome hall · By Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Shepherds' Field Chapel near Bethlehem, where Christians remember the angels' good news to the shepherds.
Used on: Bell tower · By Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, with its famous crack.
Used on: Bell tower · By 颐园居 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Herodium, King Herod's palace and fortress on a hill near Bethlehem, seen from above.
Used on: Palace of light · By Asaf T. · Public domain · Original file
A model of Jerusalem in Jesus's time at the Israel Museum, showing the temple that King Herod rebuilt.
Used on: Hall of wisdom · By Berthold Werner · Public domain · Original file
A Greek Orthodox church of John the Baptist at the baptism site by the Jordan River.
Used on: Dove statue · By Bob McCaffrey · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original file
The Orthodox church in Kafr Kanna, a village in Galilee that many believe is the Cana of the wedding.
Used on: Garden villa · By Britchi Mirela · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The Citadel of Qaitbay in Alexandria, Egypt, built in the 1400s on the site of the ancient Pharos lighthouse.
Used on: Lamp tower · By Argenberg · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
Jacob's Well today, in the crypt of a church in Nablus. Visitors still draw water from it with a bucket.
Used on: Fountain of life · By Jeremiah K Garrett · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Part of the Great Isaiah Scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls: the column with the words of Isaiah 53.
Used on: Scroll library · By Photography by Ardon Bar Hama (see [2], author of original document is unknown. · Public domain · Original file
The view from the Church of the Beatitudes, on the hill where Christians remember the Sermon on the Mount, down to the Sea of Galilee.
Used on: Lantern circle · By Berthold Werner · Public domain · Original file
The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke, on a plaque at the Church of the Pater Noster in Jerusalem.
Used on: School of wisdom · By Ywpark2003 Prof. Yong Woo Park · CC0 · Original file
Red anemones cover a field in Israel in spring. Some think Jesus's "lilies of the field" were wildflowers like these.
Used on: Lily garden · By MathKnight and Zachi Evenor · CC BY 3.0 · Original file
The cathedral and the leaning bell tower of Pisa, Italy, at sunrise.
Used on: Light crane · By MHoser · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The ruins of the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem, beside the Church of Saint Anne.
Used on: Spring pool · By Berthold Werner · Public domain · Original file
A mosaic of a basket of bread and two fish, made about 1,500 years ago for a church at Tabgha by the Sea of Galilee, where Christians remember the feeding of the five thousand.
Used on: Sharing pavilion · By Matson Collection · Public domain · Original file
George Müller's five orphan houses at Ashley Down in Bristol, England, in an old engraving.
Used on: Marble cottage · By Unknown author · Public domain · Original file
The Olympic stadium in Barcelona, where Derek Redmond's father helped him finish his race in 1992.
Used on: Golden track · By Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Tell es-Sultan, the mound of ancient Jericho, where people lived more than 10,000 years ago.
Used on: Hall of treasures · By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
An old sycamore fig tree in Jericho, shown to visitors as the tree of Zacchaeus.
Used on: Hall of treasures · By James Emery from Douglasville, United States · CC BY 2.0 · Original file
The Last Supper, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1490s on a wall in Milan, Italy.
Used on: Banquet hall · By Leonardo da Vinci · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The building on Mount Zion in Jerusalem where Christians remember the last supper. Its upstairs hall was built by Crusaders in the Middle Ages.
Used on: Banquet hall · By שלמה רודד · CC BY 2.5 · Original file
The Church of All Nations, built in 1924 beside the Garden of Gethsemane.
Used on: Prayer chapel · By Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane, in a stained-glass window at St John's Church, Ashfield, in Sydney, Australia.
Used on: Prayer chapel · By Stained glass: Alfred Handel, d. 1946[2], photo: Toby Hudson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A copy of the Pilate Stone, carved with the name of Pontius Pilate. The original is in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Used on: Victors' arena · By Reinhard Dietrich · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
The arena that Herod built at Caesarea, the Roman port where the governors of Judea lived.
Used on: Victors' arena · By Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Used on: Sky bridge · By Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A round rolling stone in front of the Tomb of the Kings in Jerusalem, in an old photo.
Used on: Building materials · By Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · Original file
The entrance to the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem.
Used on: Garden of light · By Bukvoed · CC BY 4.0 · Original file
Puffy cumulus clouds in a blue sky.
Used on: Cloud island · By Dmitry Makeev · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
Ruins of the ancient city of Philippi, in northern Greece.
Used on: Harp workshop · By Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The oldest known Christian hymn with its music, on a scrap of papyrus found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
Used on: Harp workshop · By Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Original file
A black-lip pearl oyster with a pearl inside, at the natural history museum of Toulouse, France.
Used on: Pearl gate · By Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file
The fishing boat from Jesus's time found in the mud of the Sea of Galilee in 1986, now in a museum at Ginosar.
Used on: Swan boat · By Ywpark2003 Prof. Yong Woo Park · CC0 · Original file
A wooden boat on the Sea of Galilee at Tiberias today.
Used on: Swan boat · By Staselnik · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
A Somali wild ass, one of the last wild relatives of the donkey, at a wildlife park in France.
Used on: Donkey with fruit · By H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original file
The pyramids of Meroë, a city of the kingdom of Kush, drawn by a traveler in 1821.
Used on: Golden chariot · By Cailliaud, Frédéric in 1826 · Public domain · Original file
A maglev train at its station in Shanghai, China.
Used on: Cloud carriage · By kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original file