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Selection of Egyptian Scarabs, First Intermediate Period (c. 2150 - 2007 BC) to Late Period (664 - 337BC). Photo & Work Credit: Bridgeman Images. Collection: National Museums Scotland.
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Hypocast was the warm air heating system used by Romans.
Roman baths typically had water heated by furnaces using wood or charcoal. The hypocaust was a central heating system that predated heating ducts and steam-based radiators.
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Stunning images of costumes at winter celebrations around the Europe. Photographer: Charles Fréger.
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Diana the Huntress by Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912).
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A Maya carving of a frog from Topoxte, Guatemala. Date: c. 700–800 AD. Medium: shell and quartz. Now on display at the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Guatemala City.
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Detail, Water Lilies by Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945). Private Collection.
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Dancing dogs. Culture: Colima. Place of Origin: Colima, Mexico. Medium: Blackware ceramic. Now on display at the Princeton Universty Art Museum.
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Detail of Ascent of the Blessed, Hieronymus Bosch, late 15th century or early 16th century.
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Circe, Wright Barker (1864 - 1941), 1889.
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The Mouth of Truth (Bocca della Verità), Rome, Italy.
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Douleur d'amour / The pain of love by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1899.
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René Lalique, Suzanne, 1925. France. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass.
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Statue of the goddess Bastet. Late Period ~ ca.600 BC. Neues Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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Silver Bracelets of Queen Hetepheres I. Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, ca. 2575-2550 BC. From the Tomb of Hetepheres I, near the Great Pyramid of Giza. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Schliemann and visitors at the Lion Gate of Mycenae, 1876.
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8.5" sculpture of a Victorian ghost emerging from an antique mirror cast in resin. Cast in a translucent resin, glow in the dark, and hand painted with a brass hanger on the back. Work of Dellamorteco. #modernart
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Thomas Cole’s 1836 painting “Destruction,” from his series entitled “The Course of Empire”.
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Danaides (Daughters of Danaus), John William Waterhouse, 1903.
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The Bewitched Man (The Devil's Lamp), detail, Francisco de Goya, 1798.
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Stonehenge at snowy sunset. Wiltshire, UK. (Photo: Stock Image)
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The Terracotta Army, Mount Li, China, 210 BC.
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The Birth of Venus by Charles Haslewood Shannon - 1923.
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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, late 19th century or early 20th century.
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