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Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian, containing one of the oldest known cooking recipes. The tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 meat stews and 4 vegetable stews. ca. 1.730 BC. Now on display at the Yale Babylonian Collection.
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Dream of the Magi, 1120-30, Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France.
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Offering Praxias to Asclepius for healing the eyes of his wife. c. 4rd c. BC. Now on display at the Acropolis Museum, Athens.
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Pesian Achaemenid rhyton made of lapis lazuli and gold. 6th-5th century BC.
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The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece (National Archaeology Museum of Athens).
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Pair burial of the Scythian Husband and Wife found near Ternopil, Ukraine (c. 1000 BC). Excavated around 1998.
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Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883), Rosa Celeste (Dante and Beatrice gazing upon the highest Heaven, from Dante’s Divine Comedy).
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“Danse Macabre” woodcut by Hans Holbein, 1526.
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Detail from Perseus and Andromeda by Joachim Anthoniszoon Wtewael. (1566 – 1638).
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Thoth, God of Learning and Patron of Scribes. Culture: Egyptian. Date: 664–525 B.C. Medium: Slate. Image courtesy: Dallas Museum of Art.
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Camille Flammarion, Observatory at Alexandria (L'Astronomie Populaire), 1880.
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Lady Godiva - 1898, John Collier, Herbert Art Gallery.
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A lion eating the sun. Detail from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium - c.1760. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Vassar college girls practicing Greek dances, 1923.
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Mongolian Shaman "Otshir-böö" wearing ritual clothes and drum., circa 1909. This photo was taken by ethnologist and archaeologist Sakari Pälsi during his expedition to Mongolia in 1909.
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Statue based on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous concept for artificial wings. From the exhibition “Leonardo: 500 Years Into the Future”, at The Tech Museum of Innovation, 2020.
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“The Old Temple”, 1788 by Hubert Robert - French (1733-1808). Medium: oil/canvas.
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Ancient Egyptian carnelian ring, dated to the 18th dynasty, or 1550-1300 BC. Private Collection.
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Astronomical Clock in St Mark’s, Venice. It was designed by Maurizio Codussi and built beginning in 1496. The clock displays the time, the phase of the moon, and the dominant sign of the Zodiac.
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Olmec head, Veracruz, Mexico, circa 1938.
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Roman Amethyst Intaglio of a Girl Riding a Sea Monster, 1st Century BC-AD.
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Diana, the Huntress, Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre, 1833-1916, oil on canvas.
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Chauvet Cave Paintings (approximately 30,000 years ago).
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A Girl defending herself against Eros by William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1880.
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