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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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Mosaic after the flood at the ancient Hellenistic town of Zeugma
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Sarcophagus from tombs of Yuya and Thuya, discovered in 1905.
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A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand. Iwo Jima, 1945.
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A 2000-year-old Roman silver dagger discovered in 2019 in Germany and restored over 9 months.
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The Virgin Mary punching the devil in the face, 'The De Brailes Hours', Oxford ca. 1240
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Painter Berthold Woltze's The Irritating Gentleman, 1874
Private Collection
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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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Boys working in a coal mine, 1911. Photo by Reinhard Schultz
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Dr. Religa monitors his patient’s vitals after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner, 1987.
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Archaeologists eating lunch in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923.
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A traditional medieval cave house with a courtyard found in the desert of Libya.
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Thousands of telephone lines, Stockholm, 1890.
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A 2000-year-old giant cat geoglyph found amid Peru's famous Nazca Lines.
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Installed in 1410, this 600-year-old clock in Prague is the world's oldest astrological clock still in operation.
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2000 year-old Roman face cream/lotion. Dating back to II AD. Object was found in the temple complex dedicated to Mars. It's world's oldest cosmetic face cream and it has finger marks in the lid.
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Ancient Greek helmets, Altes Museum, Berlin
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The ancient Greek city of Ephesus in present-day Turkey.
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Buzz Aldrin, first self portrait in space. 1966.
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Galileo Galilei's first drawings of the moon after viewing it through his telescope in 1609 CE.
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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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Michelangelo completed his marble masterpiece, the Pietà, in 1499 when he was just 24 years old
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