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Roman Mosaic Floor with Medusa, c.115-150 AD. Source: #GettyMuseum
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Olmec Heads. For a period of some 250 or more years (1.200-900 B.C), the massive heads and other monuments were carved from basalt which was floated on huge rafts and then dragged from the Tuxtla Mountains.
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Monumental sculpture, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, circa 1885.
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Grief by Oskar Zwintscher, 1898. Location: New Masters Gallery (Galerie Neue Meister), Dresden.
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Minerva and the Centaur (detail) by Sandro Botticelli. Date: c. 1482-1483 Medium: Tempera on canvas.
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Mercury Tying His Sandals, Jean-André Delorme, 1881.
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Illustration: A bustling marketplace in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
Credit: National Geographic.
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Anubis from the tomb of Horemheb, KV57, Egypt.
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Caryatids, Acropolis, Athens. (Photo Credit: Anastasios71 via Shutterstock)
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General view of "Girls in Bikini" Mosaic., Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, c 3rd. century AD.
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A 600-year-old medieval hat from Lappvattnet. The hat, which is made of sheep's wool, was preserved in a bog. Now housed at the Västerbottens museum in Sweden.
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Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mayan, 5th-8th centuries (Photo: Carlos Adampol Galindo, CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Members of the Japanese Mission to Europe in front of the Sphinx, Egypt, by Antonio Beato, 1864.
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Snake. Place of origin: South Germany or North Italy. Date: late 16th century-early 17th century. Medium: Bronze. Source: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org
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Hieronymus Bosch - detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, ca. 1490 - 1510.
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Sailing ship gold earrings and gold pendants from the Greek island of Sifnos, 17th century. Collection: Athens, Benaki Museum.
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Bronze head of Akkadian king, probably depicting Sargon or his grandson Naram-Sin. Unearthed in Nineveh, modern day Mosul, Iraq. Dated ca 2200-2300 BC.
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Houses of Çatalhöyük (Reconstruction) - modern-day Konya, Turkey, c. 7,000 BC. The Mud-brick houses were clustered together and there were no outside doors. People went in and out of the houses through openings in the roos.
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One of the greatest discoveries of archaeology: Bust of Nefertiti.
Bust of Nefertiti (detail) ca. 1340 B.C, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom.
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Winged victory. Ancient Roman frescos from Pompeii in the 4th Pompeian style, Italy, 64 BC.
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Aloisia Rucellai, Evening bag, c.1968. Source: Private Collection.
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Four dogs huddled together (marble) from the House of the Faun, Rome 1st BC.
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The Giza pyramid complex, Egypt, circa 1865.
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