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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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“Undine rising from the waters," Chauncey Bradley Ives 1810-1894.
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The National Library of Austria, in Hofburg Palace, was constructed in the 18th century & contains 7.4 million books
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The stunning wooden spiral staircase of Peles castle in Sinaia, Romania.
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A 2000-year-old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons discovered by archaeologist Veselin Ignatov.
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Mussolini's Italian Fascist Party headquarters, 1934
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"West Wind" by the 19th-century sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould.
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Crystal spearhead found in a 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb in Spain. The tomb had the remains of 25 individuals, several of whom had consumed a poisonous substance
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The ancient Greek city of Ephesus in present-day Turkey.
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A Gargoyle of Notre Dame, 1920. Photo by Pierre Yves-Petit.
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A young boy playing the banjo with his dog, 1920.
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"Tree of Life" mosaic from Hisham's Palace, built in the 8th century. CE in Jericho by the Umayyad Caliphate.
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The 2000-year-old tree of Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico. It has the largest trunk diameter in the world. Its circumference is close to 60m.
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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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Detail of a bronze statue of Standing Parvati. Chola period, c.1200 CE, Tamil Nadu, India
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Fallingwater under snow, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935.
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The discovery of the ancient Statue of Antinous found in Delphi, Greece during an excavation in 1894
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Stunning detail on the statue Ugolino and His Sons, 1865–67. Sculpture Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
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A 2000-year-old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons discovered by archaeologist Veselin Ignatov.
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Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Photos of before and after the excavation and restoration of the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq. It was built approximately 4,100 years ago by King Ur-Nammu of the Neo-Sumerian Empire.
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A golden Roman helmet, circa 4th century CE.
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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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