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Ancient Greek gold and garnet earrings, dated to the 4th century BC. Image: Jewels of the Ancient World - Private Collection (?).
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Perseus byJoseph Blanc,1869. Medium: Oil on canvas, 302 x 174 cm. Collection: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
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Cleopatra testing poison on death row prisoners (Detail), 1887. By Alexandre Cabanel.
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Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, AD. 176-177 Gilded bronze, h. 424 cm. Now on display at the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
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The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by John Martin, 1822. Credit: Tate Art Gallery, London, UK.
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David, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Borghese Gallery, Rome.
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Cute toad (oldest form of frog idol) bringer of rain and fertility in Vichama, archaeological site of the Caral Civilization in Peru. 1.800 to 1.600 BC.
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Detail, The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch (between 1480 and 1505).
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Hadrian’s Villa - Hadrian died just four years after the country house was completed. Later it was the imperial summer residence but fell into disrepair after Constantine moved to Byzantium in 330.
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Hall of Columns, Temple of Karnack, Thebes, Egypt, by Antonio Beato. ca. 1860s.
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“Human Figures” in the Cave Paintings of Southern Venezuela. Credit: John Greer and Mavis Greer.
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The lion-headed storm-demon Ugallu (Akkadian, ūmu rabû). Neo-Assyrian alabaster wall panel, Nineveh, Iraq ~ ca.640 BC. Collection: British Museum. #MuseumWeek
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Breastplate. Place of origin: Italy. Date: Late A.D. 6th century AD. Medium: Steel and bone. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
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Sun-Headed Deity of Tamgaly, Kazakhstan. Possibly depicting the sun god. The petroglyph dates to the early Iron Age. (ca. 1200-500 BC).
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Javanese gold arm band. Date: early 10th century AD. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Temple of Isis, Philae - Vasily Polenov (1882)
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The Museum Hotel is home to the world’s largest mosaic, uncovered in 2010. (c. 300 B.C.) The mosaic rug extends over 1050 square meters and it’s the world’s largest mosaic piece.
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Egyptian gold snake ring, dated to the Ptolemaic period, and more specifically to 332-330 BC. Private Collection (?)
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Mosaic of various sea-life originally from House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii. Now on display at the Naples National Archaeological Museum.
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Roman Fresco- Spring maiden gathering flowers from the villa of Varano in Stabiae c. 15 BC-60 AD.
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Griffin. Culture: Roman. Date: AD. 14-37. Medium: Fresco; tempera. Collection: Risd Museum, Denmark.
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Gold bracelet from the tomb of Shoshenq II (r. 887-885 BC) mounted with a lapis lazuli scarab, from Tanis, 3rd Intermediate, 22nd Dynasty.
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