Beginnings

Welcome to SuperStock's 'Beginnings' gallery, a collection of conceptual illustrations that capture the essence of starting anew. Our selection of images offers a unique perspective on the journey of life, from the first steps to the grandest ambitions. Our artworks are perfect for those seeking to evoke a sense of hope and po...Read more

The Nebra Sky disk by Prehistoric art / State Museum of Prehistory, Halle / ca. 1600 BC /Bronze / Objects / D 30

Museo Egizio, Egyptian museum, Turin, Piedmont, Italy.

Mycenaean art. Greece. Silver rhyton as head of a bull with golden horns and forehead adorned with a gold rosette. Royal Tomb IV at Mycenae. 16th century BCE. National Archaeological Museum. Athens.

Mycenaean art. Greece. Rhyton as lion's head embossed in gold foil. Found in Tomb IV Circle A at Mycenae. Around 1550 BCE National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.

Prehistory. Neolithic. Marble female figure dated to the end of five millennium BC. Found in Aegina. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.

Greek Art. Greece. Funerary statue of a woman carved in marble. Found in Delos. Copy of 2nd century BCE from an original dated in 300 BCE. National Archaeological Museum. Athens.

Art greek. Gravestone. Attic. Early 4th BC century. Farewell scene. A woman sitting with her jewels with a slave. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Greece.

Minoan art. Greece. 16th century B.C. Fresco of boxing kids. Fight between two teens provided with gloves and a belt. Painted stucco. Room B1 from Akrotiri (Thera). (1550-1500 BC). National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.

Greek Art. Parthenon. 5th century B.C. North frieze. XLIV-XLV. Riders. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London. England. UK.

Mycenaean art. Greece. Clay tablet with inscriptions on Mycenaean Linear B script. National Archaeological Museum. Athens.

Mycenaean art. Llyre of ivory with decorative carvings at the base that was the sound box. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.

Greek art. Grave relief of Mnesarete. About 380 BC. The dead woman is seated in front of a sorrowing girl. The name is recorded on the pediment Mnesarete (daughter) of Socrates. Glyptothek. Munich.

Pottery from Miletus, ancient Greece. 625-600 BC. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.

Roman Art. Sarcphagus Chest with the Phaeton Myth. The fall of Phaeton. Found in Ostia. Late 2nd cent. AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Tragedy mask. Detail of the Melpomene's statue, Muse of singing and Tragedy. Roman statue. 2nd century AD. Marble. From Monte Calvo. Italy. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Roman Art. Sarcophagus with Dionysus and Ariadne. Marble. C. 200 A.C. From Vigna Casali, Rome. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Roman Art. Sarcophagus with Dionysus and Ariadne. Marble. C. 200 A.C. From Vigna Casali, Rome. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Roman Art. Sarcophagus with Marsyas and Apollo. Marble. Detail. From Sidon, Lebanon. C. 200-210 A.C. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

A stone-carved Madusa head. The most frightening of the three Gorgons.Turn to stone all who looked and, after her death, her head kept this power. Temple of Apollo. Didyma. Turkey.

Tutankhamen: Selket 1342 B.C. Egyptian Art Gilded wood Egyptian National Museum, Cairo, Egypt

Holy Saturday Scroll: Enthroned Christ, manuscript, 11th century

Slaughtering Scene 2250 BC Egyptian Art(- ) Relief Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, (Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung), Berlin

Bust of a King 1350 BC-Amarna Period Egyptian Art Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany

Roman Mosaic-Tragic Mask Mosaic Laterano Museum, Rome, Italy

Queen Tiy ca. 1352 BCE (18th Dynasty) Egyptian Art Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

Gigaku Mask, circa 7th Century,, Japan, Tokyo, National Museum

Ancient Greek amphora

Xunantunich is a Mayan archeological site in western Belize. It was once the civic ceremonial center of the region.

Italy, Florence, Museo Archeologico, Francois Vase by Kleitias and Ergotimos, 570 B.C

Xunantunich is a Mayan archeological site in western Belize. It was once the civic ceremonial center of the region.

Great Stag Prehistoric Art Lascaux Caves, France

Tutankhamen: The Gold Mask Egyptian Art Egyptian National Museum, Cairo, Egypt

Great Black Bull Prehistoric Art Lascaux Caves, France

Xunantunich is a Mayan archeological site in western Belize. It was once the civic ceremonial center of the region.

Tomb gate with carved decoration China Eastern Han dynasty; 1st century A.D. Limestone

13 Broad collar Deli el-Bestia; tomb E Middle Kingdom; Dynasty 12; 1991-1783 B.C. Faience; steatite

Votive Stele Early 6th century Northern Wei Dynasty; 386-535 Sandstone with incised and relief decoration

Low angle view of a Buddha statue in a cave, Yungang Buddhist Caves, Datong, China

Mask of a Woman 100 B.C. Egyptian Art Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

Mask of a Man, 1350 B.C., Egyptian Art, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz,

Stone statues at Mount Nemrut, Turkey

Sunlight through an oculus, Pantheon Rome, Rome, Italy

Cahel Pech means "place of the ticks" because before excavations it was a pasture.

King Menkaura (Mycerinus) and queen From Giza; Menkaura Valley Temple Dynasty 4; reign of Menkaura; 2490-2472 BC Greywacke

A Banquet in the Open Air; early 300s; Marble; glass; clay Unknown artist; Roman

Man on camel. 4th c. - 6th c. Northern Wei Dynasty. Chinese art. Wei period. Terra-cotta. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe Cernuschi (Cernuschi Museum).

Angel playing trumpet, basilica of Santi Felice and Fortunato, Vicenza, Veneto. Italy, 11th century.

The Pieta, fresco in the Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity, 5th century, Venosa, Basilicata, Italy.

Roman-Egyptian, encaustic mummy portrait of a young man from Hawara, Egypt 300 AD

Portrait of a woman, painted in encaustic on wood. Roman, about AD 300-325 From a tomb at Rubayat in the Fayum, Egypt

Musicians from the top two registers of the banquet scene. 18th Dynasty, from the tomb of Nebamun, 1350-1370 BC.

Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, shows a pool in a garden that might have belonged to Nebamun. The pool is full of birds, lotus flowers and tilapia fish, while papyrus grows along the edge. Around the pool are palms, dom-palms, sycamore fig, mandrakes, and other bushes. Thebes, Egypt 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC

Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, Fragment of a polychrome tomb-painting showing cattle with their farmers from the presentation of the geese scene. Thebes, Egypt 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC

Pillar from the entrance to the 'Treasury of Atreusí at Mycenae; a tomb, built between about 1350 and 1250 BC

Wooden box used in an Egyptian tomb, as container for the internal organs during the Ptolemaic Period (302-30 BC). Richly decorated with religious motifs with several amulets between them. (wedjat-eyes,the dyed pillar, the Isis knot, the symbol of Ufe the ankh or the uas sceptre).

Wooden box used in an Egyptian tomb, as container for the internal organs during the Ptolemaic Period (302-30 BC). Richly decorated with religious motifs with several amulets between them. (wedjat-eyes,the dyed pillar, the Isis knot, the symbol of Ufe the ankh or the uas sceptre).

Ancient Egyptian scarab shaped pectoral from a tomb. The Ushabti also called Ushabti or shawabti, was an Ancient Egyptian funerary figurine

Roman-Egyptian Funerary mask. Cartonnage. 1st century BC.

Egyptian Coffin case belonging to the Lady of the House of Djed-Montu-iues-anj. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty (945-715 BC).

Decorated ostrich eggshell from the Ur cemetery. Dated 2600 BC

Bronze mirrors from a tomb in Chikuzen province China;250-710 AD

Marble tombstone depicting a woman leaving her child. Dated 400 BC

Marble tombstone of Timarete. The tombstone depicts the deceased offering a bird to a kneeling infant. Dated 420 BC

Detail from the Nereid Monument, a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in classical period Lycia. Dated 4th Century BC

Detail from the Nereid Monument, a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in classical period Lycia. Dated 4th Century BC

Detail from the Nereid Monument, a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in classical period Lycia. Dated 4th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Saddle Cover, Ancient Altaian, Pazyryk Burial Mounds

Pile Carpet, Ancient Altaian, Pazyryk Burial Mounds

Hydria (Kalpis) with a Depiction of a Scene in Gynaeceum. Attic pottery, Art of Ancient Rome, Attican Art

The Stone of Tmutarakan, Ancient Russian Art

Statue of Akhenaten, Ancient Egypt

Silver pendant (Kolt) from Old Ryazan, Ancient Russian Art

Bracelet from Old Ryazan, Ancient Russian Art

Portrait bust of Nero, Classical Antiquities

Tombstone depicting a ritual meal, Classical Antiquities

The wooden coffin of Pensenhor, Ancient Egypt

Saint Boris, Ancient Russian Art

Grave stele of Salmamodes, macedonian mercenery. 2nd century BC. From Sidon (Lebanon). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey.

The ceiling at the Stabian Baths in Pompeii, Italy, is probably dating back to the 5th century B.C.

War goddess Athena, about 500 BC, Glyptothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Saint Sophia by Ancient Russian frescos / Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kiev / 11th century / Russia / Fresco / Bible /Old Russian Art

Bull-Leaping (from the Palace Complex of Knossos) by Bronze Age culture / Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete / ca 1450 BC / Greece / Fresco / Genre,Mythology, Allegory and Literature /Minoan civilization

Lascaux cave painting Period: Paleolithic, c.18,000 years ago. Vezere Valley, Dordogne, France.

Frescoes of the Tomba Claudio Bettini, Etruscan grave chamber, Prince grave, 5th BC, necropolis Monterozzi, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tarquinia, Laz...

Cueva de las Manos or Cave of Hands, murals, 7000-1000 BC, Santa Cruz, Argentina

Rhinoceros wine (detail) vessel dating to the Han Dynasty (206 BC AD 9).

Bronze Han Dynasty cowrie container with yaks and lion decorations, on display in the Shanghai Museum, China

Healing of the paralytic, fresco, Basilica of San Saba, Rome. Italy, 8th-9th century.

fine arts, ancient world, Etruscans, painting, Velthur Velcha and his wife having a feast, Tomba degli Scudi, Tarquinia, circa 350/325 BC,

fine arts, ancient world, Etruscans, painting, man plying flute, Tomba dei Leopardi, Tarquinia, circa 450 BC,

HERRERA, Gabriel Alonso de (1470-1539). Spanish clergyman and agronomist. Title page of the 'Book on Agriculture', work from 1513. Edition published in Valladolid in 1563. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca. Salamanca University Library.

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