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Memento Mori ring with the engraving “Remember you must die,” 1700s. Photo Credit: Caroline Bacher.
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Persian lion’s head ornament From Hammadan (Iran), 600-500 B.C.
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Roman Lycurgus Cup is a 1,600-year-old jade green Roman chalice. When you put a source of light inside it magically changes color. It appears jade green when lit from the front but blood-red when lit from behind or inside.
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Elliot Erwitt’s 1959 photo of an adorable cat proudly standing atop a garden statue of the ancient Egyptian dwarf-god Bes.
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Temple of Hathor in Dandara, Egypt. 1910s.
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Ophelia - Sculpture by Sarah Bernhardt, 1880. Medium: white marble, in a wood frame. Private Collection.
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Greek theatre Taormina with the smoke eruption of Mount Etna on May 18, 1886.
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Modern recreation of the Colossus Statue of Rhodes by Te Hu. Colossus of Rhodes built on Rhodes Island (Greece) in 292 BC and destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC. It is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Gustav Klimt, Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1901)
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Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai Built between 548 and 565 A.D., Saint Catherine's Monastery is one of the world's oldest working monasteries.
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Dancing Owl, Palaya Qiatsuq, 2013. Private Collection (?).
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“Athenais” by John William Godward (1861 – 1922).
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Cave painting with representation of the Weather Gods. Dated to c.6000 BC. Mount Latmos, modern-day Turkey.
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Nacht (Night) by Willy Kriegel (German, 1901–1966). Medium: oil on fiberboard ; Size: 60 x 49.8 cm.
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Breastplate Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1549. Dimensions: 170.2 cm (67.0 in), Weight: 24 kg, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
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Ceramic Aztec vase depicting Tlaloc, god of rain, from the Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. 15th century. Image: Stock photo.
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Giant Griffin, Persepolis, Iran, circa 516-465 BC. Founded by Darius I in 518 BC, Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek: Περσέπολις, a compound of Pérsēs (Πέρσης) and pólis (πόλις), meaning "the Persian city".
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Salvador Dalí , Melting clock, Bronze, 1977 (Profile of Time).
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Stone & Man - Qaqortoq, Greenland. All throughout the greenlandic town of Qaqortoq, carved into boulders and lichen-covered rock faces, are carvings of whales, faces, and other traditional designs. Together these stoneworks are a citywide work of art known as Stone & Man.
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Two-headed snake, with glass eyes, holding a medallion with the image of Diana. c. 1st c. AD. Place of origin: Pompeii, The House of the Gold Bracelet.
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The Queen Cat (Królewna kotka) by Konstanty Laszczka (1865–1956) - ca. 1928. Photographer & Credit: Przemyslaw Piatkowski, Fotopia & Virtual Museum of Konstanty Laszczka.
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John William Waterhouse - Hylas and the Nymphs (detail).
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