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Golden cicada on a jade leaf, Ming dynasty (1368-1644). This sculpture was discovered in a tomb in 1954: it is the top of a hairpin, belonging to a woman of high rank. The imagery of a cicada on a leaf had a double meaning and was a high compliment paid to beautiful women. .
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Babylonian map of the world, 6th century BC.
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The Aztec Sun Stone - also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone - is an enormous circular stone carved from basalt, covered with hieroglyphic carvings, weighing 25 tons, 3.60 meters in diameter, and 98 cm thick.
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Mummy of fish. Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Now in the Louvre.
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Woodcut print of the twelve signs of the zodiac, German, 16th century.
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Figural lamp screen. Created by Tiffany Studios, c.1905. Medium: Leaded glass, gilt bronze. Private Collection.
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Bronze statue of Hercules, Roman, 2nd century AD. Height 51 cm. Alanya Museum, Anatolia.
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Gold bracelet with animal head (detail), 4th-3rd B.C., Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Road with Cypresses (detail) by Vincent van Gogh.
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The End of the World (the Great Day of His Wrath) by John Martin, 1851-53.
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Geometric Roman Mosaics of National Roman Museum, Rome.
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Then & Now: Grand Theatre of Ephesus (modern-day Selcuk, Izmir, Turkey), 2nd Century A.D. / Illustration Credit: akg-images.com.
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Eastern greek fluorite carved idol: Owl. 4th - 3rd century BC. Private Collection. @OptimoPrincipi
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Gold Ornament in the form of a Bee. 1700-1600 BC, Minoan. Length: 1.9 cm. (Collection: The British Museum)
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Cosmetic box. Place of origin: Egypt, c. 600–500 B.C. Medium: Faience. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Great Ziggurat of Ur was built by the Sumerian King Ur-Nammu and his son Shulgi in approximately the 21st c. BC. The ziggurat was a piece in a temple complex that served as an administrative center for the city, and which was a shrine of the moon god Nanna.
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Women Picking Olives by Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
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Cave paintings of Altamira are dating back between 36.000 and 15.000 years. The colorful ceiling paintings depict wild animals in motion and at rest, including deer, wild horses, and wild boar in addition to bison; they represent a high point of Ice Age cave art.
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Skeletons dancing. Etching by R. Stamper (1722-1797). Credit: Wellcome Collection.
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Mary Magdalene, polychrome wood sculpture by Gregor Erhart. Made in Augsburg, c. 1515-1520 AD. Now on display at the Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, detail heads of Athena and Isis (Ceiling above the grand staircase, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918).
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Vincent Van Gogh; detail of Wheatfield With a Reaper.
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Gold snacelet, Egypt, 300 - 250 BC.Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Moonrise and the temple of Poseidon at Sounio, Greece. Photo via Elias Chasiotis on Flickr.
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Base of the Obelisk of Theodosius, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) by James Robertson (1855).
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