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The Ladder of Divine Ascent. 12th c. Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
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Construction of the Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1595. Now on display at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
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9,000 year-old-flutes found in China, made of bones. They are still playable.
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Dragon detail from Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany by Jean Bourdichon. c1503-1508. Collection: Gallica - BnF.
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Stained glass window titled “Autumn Landscape” by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1923-1924.
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Mask of Xiutecuhlti, god of fire; 1325-1521 AD, Aztec-Mixtec, Mexico.
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Dolphin Fresco in the Queen's Megaron (detail) circa 1600 B.C. Knossos Palace, Crete.
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Memento Mori ring, England, c. late 17th to early 18th Century.
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An Egyptian turquoise faience figure of a baboon sacred to the moon god Thoth. (15.5 cm). New Kingdom, 18th-20th Dynasty, ca. 1390-1075 BC. Private Collection.
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Cobra Pefume Bottle by René Lalique, 1920.
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Augustus of Prima Porta statue and how it looked originally. 1st century AD. Collection: Vatican Museums, Vatican.
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Quetzalcoatl (feathered serpent), detail from Teotihuacán, Mexico.
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Assyrian Winged Bull, Palace at Khorsabad (Citadel of Sargon II), Iraq. c. 710 B.C. Limestone. Now on display at the Louvre Museum.
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Off for the Sabbath, photograph, William Mortensen, 1927.
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Caparison by Spiering, François, c. 1621. Medium: Wool and silk on a woolen warp. Collection: Royal Armoury, Stockholm.
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Daggers of Tutankhamun. Pair of ceremonial daggers discovered by Hoard Carter in 1925 within the burial wrappings of the king, from the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62). Gold and meteoric iron. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Chestnut leaf with golden calligraphy. Dates from the 19th century, Ottoman Empire.
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David Roberts "The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec", 1841.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme - Truth coming from the well armed with her whip to chastise mankind (1896)
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Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel, Egypt ,1965-1968. Photographer: Kees Scherer.
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Hell. St. Augustine, La cité de Dieu. Maître François - ca.1475 AD .
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Tipu’s Tiger, an automaton that was made for Tipu Sultan of Mysore in India during the 1700s. The 68-inch long device shows a tiger killing a British redcoat, representing the British East India Company, the enemy of the Sultan.
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