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The Pazyryk Carpet is the world's oldest intact carpet. This 2,500-year-old carpet was found frozen in a Kurgan in the Altai Mountains.
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A digital reconstruction of the Roman Emperor Tiberius by Haround Binous.
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Albert's Pyramid: Queen Victoria had a 35' (10.6m) pyramidal memorial cairn to her beloved Albert built after his death in 1861.
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Police Aviation force member performing a stunt, New York, 1920
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Ceramic water pipes found near Epang Palace. China, Warring States, 5th-3rd century BCE
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Oldest Austrian soldier of WW1, a 79-year-old Gaspar Wallnöfer, veteran of Habsburg campaigns in Italy in 1848 and 1866, September 1917
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A statue of Yasuke, an African slave, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and may have been the first black Samurai. bit.ly/3yoqoIo
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Fountain of Diana of Ephesus, built by Gillis van den Vliete, 1568.
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A photograph of the oldest house in Hamburg, Germany, 1898. Built in 1524, it was demolished on December 8th, 1910 despite protesting locals. Color by Angelina Karpunina, bit.ly/36N26MD
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Amazingly detailed horse head from the Assyrian 'Royal Lion Hunt' relief. 645-635 BCE, North Palace, Nineveh.
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Erika Kornelia Szeles, was a 15-Year-Old Hungarian Resistance member who fought against the Soviets in the 1956 revolution.
During a resistance operation, Erika was mortally wounded in a street fight with Soviet soldiers on November 8th, 1956.
Color by @EmilWallner
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A man sells goldfish in baggies tied to a tree branch in Beirut, Lebanon, February 1983.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini's last masterpiece -the ecstasy of blessed Ludovica Albertoni, 1671.
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Protesting against too revealing swimwear on a Florida beach, 1985.
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Detail of a bronze statue of Standing Parvati. Chola period, c.1200 CE, Tamil Nadu, India
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Artist Dario Campanile with Paramount Pictures logo on the day it was originally painted in 1985.
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A Chinese moon bed made of satinwood. About 1875, Sung Sing Kung Factory, China.
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A beautiful Bronze Axe. China, 1300-1200 BCE
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Audrey Hepburn in Rome, 1960. Photo by her son, Luca Dotti.
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Early 7th-century Anglo-Saxon belt buckle recovered from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England.
The British Museum
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A WWI Red Cross nurse with a rescue dog. The dog was trained to locate the wounded on the battlefield and bark to call attention to them.
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Knife with blue glass handle and ivory scabbard, inlaid with gems. Turkey, Ottoman Empire, 18th-19th century
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Believed to be 11,000 years old. Karahantepe, Near Göbeklitepe. Discovered in 2022.
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Minoan gold ring with lapis lazuli inlays, 1850-1550 BCE.
Photo by Einsamer Schütze
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