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Crab Man from Old Lord of Sipan Tomb, Peru. Date: c. 200 AD. Culture: Moche. Made from gold, copper, and polished stone.
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A close up of a painted pottery figure of an earth spirit (tomb guardians), Zhenmushou. Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907). 30 ¼ and 29 ½ in. (76.8 and 75 cm.) high. Private Collection.
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Bird detail, House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii, c. 30-35 AD. Photographer: Carlo Raso, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Athena and Hera, Mycenaean style by Peter Connollys, The Legend of Odysseus.
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On this day in 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), an act that helped transform it into a leading city of the world. #11may330
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Lost Pleiad (1884).
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The Sphinx by moonlight by Walter Tyndale (English, 1855-1943). From “An Artist in Egypt”, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
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Otter statue. Period: Late Period or Ptolemaic Period. Date: 664–30 B.C. Geography: From Egypt. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
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Rook, c. #Roman fresco, Pompeii.
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Chinese Qin Sword with gold openwork handle. Date: Spring and Autumn period (770–476 B.C.) Length 37.8cm, Hilt Length 12.7cm, Blade Length 24.5cm, Blade Width 4cm. Excavated from Tomb 2 at Yimen village in Baoji, Shaanxi, 1992; Baoji Municipal Archaeological Institute.
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Bronze Head of the Cat goddess Bastet with amber inlays for eyes. Egypt, 26th dynasty. ~600 BC. Collection: Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo: Stock Photo / Alamy.
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Panel with a Griffin, c. 1250–1300 AD, made in Greece or the Balkans. Culture: Byzantine. Medium: marble.
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Roman "marine life" mosaic. Date: 1st-2nd centuries AD. Collection: Santa Cruz Museum, Toledo, Spain. Photo: Stock Image.
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Devil bearing Jesus (Matthew 4:8‘the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them’) Detail from the missal, France. ca. 1470-75. Collection: Beinecke Rare Book Library, MS 425, fol. 48r
840
"Tunnel Book" - repurposed German bible, wood. Art by Ruth Maendel (Canadian).
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A Roman Banded Agate Amphoriskos , circa: 1st Century B.C. - 1st Century A.D. Private Collection.
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Pegasus - Walter Crane, c. 1889.
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Bison depicted at the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, dated to the Upper Paleolithic period (circa 17000 – circa 12000 years ago).
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Eastern Roman Mosaic in the Church of Qasr Libya, Northern Libya. It dates back to the Reign of Justinian I The Great.
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Freshly excavated 2000 years old Terracotta Warriors still showing original color before rapid deterioration. The picture was taken in 1974. Read more on our new book, pages: 184-185 - amazon.com/gp/product/B09…
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Tibetan Skeleton Dancers, 1925. The photo originally appeared in the November 1928 issue of National Geographic.
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Gold earring with Nike pendant, Greek, 4th century BC from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
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Camazotz, meaning Death in Bat K'iche’ language, a Lord in Xibalbá, Mesoamerica, associated with death, night and sacrifice ~ ca.1000 B.C. until the advent of the Classic Period ca. 250 AD.
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The Antikythera Youth is a 330 BC bronze statue of a young man discovered in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece. Photo Credit: National Archeological Museum of Athens.
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Offering to Isis by Edward John Poynter (20 March 1836 – 26 July 1919) .