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Amazing detail on Michaelangelo's Moses. Humans have a small muscle on the forearm that's only visible when they lift a pinky. Because Moses is lifting his pinky, the muscle is contracted.
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This 2,000-year-old olive tree in Puglia, Italy is called "The Thinking Tree" by locals.
Photo by Nicola Di Tinco
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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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Xoloitzcuintli is an ancient Aztec dog breed once considered guides for the dead on their journey to the underworld.
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A 2,000-year-old tomb carved from a single rock, Arabia.
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Built during the Safavid Empire, the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is a triumph of Persian architecture.
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Skull of a crowned athlete with a gold wreath from Agios Nikolaos, Crete. The flesh disintegrated with time, but the wreath stuck and remained on the skull. Hellenistic Period.
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A 3,000-year-old Assyrian relief of a soldier diving under a river using an inflatable goatskin bag.
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The stunning wooden spiral staircase of Peles castle in Sinaia, Romania.
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What the earliest modern humans likely looked like 160,000 years ago.
Courtesy of Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
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The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together, Holland, 1888.
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A Victorian archery outfit owned by a Mrs. Fanny Giveen circa. 1855
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Chichen Itza when it was discovered in 1892 vs Present Day.
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Some medieval humor, Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, c.1050
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The suitcases of people who were sent to concentration camps, Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum.
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Michelangelo completed his marble masterpiece, the Pietà, in 1499 when he was just 24 years old
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Clay sculpture by Benjamin Victor Bathsheba
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The ancient Greek city of Ephesus in present-day Turkey.
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Stairs carved from a solid tree trunk, 1851. Palace of the Princes of Liechtenstein in Lednice, Czech Republic.
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The golden sandals Of King Tutankhamun, 18th-dynasty. Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, Cairo.
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Sarcophagus from tombs of Yuya and Thuya, discovered in 1905.
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One of the three Roman pools of Gafsa, in Tunisia, two of which are open. Built in the 2nd century BCE, they are about five meters deep and are fed by hot water springs
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The Kiss of Death is a marble sculpture, found in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. The sculpture is thought to have been created by Jaume Barba.
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Roman mosaic discovered in 2021 in old town of Hvar, Croatia.
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