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A snake sculpture from U Thong District in Thailand. 6th-11th century CE.
Bangkok National Museum
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7000-year-old Neolithic figurines from Romania, called "The Thinker" and "The Sitting Woman"
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Lorenza D'Alessandro during the restoration of the tomb of the great Egyptian queen Nefertari, wife of Ramses II, who ruled in the 13th century BCE.
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Detail of a bronze statue of Standing Parvati. Chola period, c.1200 CE, Tamil Nadu, India
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Hand-carved stone weight, made of haematite carved in the shape of a grasshopper. Dates back 1800 - 1700 BCE in ancient Babylon.
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View of the Pyramids during a Solar Eclipse, August 30, 1905. Photo: Gabriel Lekegian
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Some medieval humor, Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, c.1050
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Stone sculpture by Benjamin Victor Bathsheba
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The ancient Greek city of Ephesus in present-day Turkey.
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A burial in Bulgaria with some of the world’s oldest known gold jewelry, 4600 BCE.
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Ksar Nalut is an 11th century fortified granary located in Nalut District, Libya.
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A 2000-year-old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons discovered by archaeologist Veselin Ignatov.
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A statue probably representing the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra III, 142-101 BCE, in the sunken city of Thonis, Heracleion.
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"West Wind" by the 19th-century sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould.
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A ghost sculpture found at the castle of Vezio, Italy
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A 3,400 year old painter's palette originating from ancient Egypt.
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Closeup of the uraeus on the body of King Tutankhamun’s first inner coffin New Kingdom 18th Dynasty Egypt 1332-1323 BCE
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Coal Miners coming up a Coal Mine Elevator after a day of work in 1920's Belgium
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Detail of a bronze statue of Standing Parvati. Chola period, c.1200 CE, Tamil Nadu, India
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1,200 stone sculptures with different facial expressions at the nenbutsu-Ju Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan
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Queen Isabel II, veiled, 1855 C by Camillo Torreggiani. Masterful use of light and shadows to make it look like real lace.
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This was the original "distracted boyfriend meme" but back then, it was the distracted girlfriend, 1950.
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Eiffel Tower during construction. 1887-1889.
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Egyptian men watch as the Graf Zeppelin floats over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, while atop the Great Pyramid of Khufu. 1931.
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