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Detail of a colossal statue of Antinous as Dionysos Osiris, marble, Roman, Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy.
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Exploring an underground burial chamber near the Pyramids of Giza, date 1925.
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"The Owl of Death" by Pablo Picasso,1952. Medium: oil on canvas.
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Costumed performer as The Minoan Snake Goddess at the 2004 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Athens.
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Ancient Greek amethyst intaglio of Achilles playing the cithara, dated to 75-50 BC. Currently located in the Getty Museum.
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Cave of El Castillo, Spain. Hands and a Bison. Some of the hand stencils, mostly near the front and middle sections of the cave, were painted more than 37,000 years ago, but some of the more recent hand stencils are 24,000 years old.
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Midsummer Eve, 1908, Edward Robert Hughes.
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Front elevation of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, by David Roberts (1838)
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Bison sculpted from mammoth ivory. Found at Zaraysk, Russia. About 20,000 years old.
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Turquoise Mask of the Aztec God of Fire (1400-1521).
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Bowl Depicting a Swarm of Mice. Medium: ceramic and pigment Period: 180 BC - 500 AD. Culture: Nazca; South coast, Peru. Now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. Illustration by Elena Izcue (1889-1970).
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Hellenistic rock tombs of Kaunos, Asia Minor, Turkey (4th – 2nd century BC)
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Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan (detail, 1827) Alexandre Charles Guillemot.
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British archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his wife Catherine at the moment of the discovery of pottery pipes that were used as a sewage and rainwater network in what is considered the first water drainage system in history before about 4000 BC. Ur (Mesopotamia) in 1930.
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17th-century memento mori ring. Showing a woman’s face on one side and an enamelled skull on the other. Medium: gold. Collection: © 2017 University of Oxford -Ashmolean Museum.
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Shoulder of Siberian Ice Princess (Princess Ukok), circa 500 B.C., Urok Plateau, Autonomous Altai Republic, Siberia. The most surprising fact about the princess is her tattoos.
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Neolithic Venus figurine called "Red hair goddess", terracotta, Starčevo culture, around 6300 - 5500 BC.
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“Gossip”, 1911, John William Waterhouse. (1848 – 1917).
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Ancient Greek hairstyle as seen on one of the Karyatides column statues, which is one of the exhibits in the Athens Acropolis Museum.
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Vincent van Gogh’s Skulls, Winter 1887/88.
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Mummy of Hatshepsut, Cairo Museum Catalogue, 1912.
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Hercules and the Hydra. 1918. Rudolph Tegner. Danish 1873-1950. Medium: plaster.
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John II Komnenos and Irene of Hungary. Art by Antoine Helbert.
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This photo is from the mid-19th century excavation of the colossal statues at the Nergal Gate of the ancient city of Nineveh. This statue was one of two winged bull-men (aka lamassu ) that guarded one of several entrances to Nineveh dated to the time of King Sennacherib.
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