British Museum Artifacts
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Here we have a collection of images of antiquities all over 2000 years old. These came from a catalog of 4x5 photo negatives that the British Museum issued after WWII and sent to other museums, academic institutions and other interested parties. I photographed the negatives with a high resolution digital camera and used Photoshop to reverse the negatives to positives. One interesting thing to note is that the ancient Egyptian artists did not use perspective in their art and carvings very much because the style they used followed a linear 2 dimensional depiction with a flow of pictographs and hieroglyphics from left to right. The early antiquities of Assyria which predated the Egyptian culture also lacked perspective but they got around that by actually carving the angle into the stone tablet as you can see in the picture below.
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