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A selection of old Assyrian documents in the Yale Babylonian Collection. Founded in 1911, the Yale Babylonian Collection comprises over 45,000 items, including cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, and other artifacts.
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Minoan fresco, Akrotiri settlement, Santorini, Greece. Akrotiri is a Bronze Age settlement located in the southwest of the island of Santorini (Thera) in the Greek Cyclades Islands.
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An Inuit Otter Amulet. Medium: ivory. Date: circa.1870-1880. Dimensions: 3.5 inches long. The amulet shows an otter swimming on its back with its paws touching its face. The holes and skeletal markings were a reminder of mortality and the passage of time.
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A Tibetan skeleton dancer, 1925. Photo by Joseph F. Rock. The photo originally appeared in the November 1928 issue of National Geographic. The Skeleton Dance is a sacred Tibetan dance ritual found in Himalayan Buddhist lineages.
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Rock art of Tassili n'Ajjer Sahara Desert, Algeria, c. 7.000 BC.
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Artistic reconstruction of the great temple of Karnak. By Jean-Claude Golvin.
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Ancient Egyptian bronze daggers with electrum blades and ivory handles. Now in the Louvre, Paris.
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A total solar eclipse over Egypt, illustrated in a 1911 edition of Astronomy for All by Bruno Hans Bürgel (1875-1948).
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The Apocalypse of 1313. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
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Hadrian (Roman Emperor, 76-138) AI reconstruction by Hidreley Diao.
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Marcus Aurelius, fragment of a bronze portrait. Roman artwork, after 170 AD. Photographer: Marie-Lan Nguyen. Collection: Louvre Museum.
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Witches' Sabbath by Francisco Goya, 1798.
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The Birth of Venus (details) by Sandro Botticelli (1483 - 1485). Collection: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
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Evolution of Latin Alphabet.
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The Pharaoh’s Handmaidens, 1883, John Collier (1850–1934).
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Vincent van Gogh, Almond Blossom, 1890.
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“Anubis and owl” by Joanna Karpowicz, 2016. Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm.
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Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896.
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The Oldest Known Map: The Map of Nippur
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René Lalique’s 11-eyed blue-glass flacon for Canarina, 1928. Most likely inspired by the Kohl-lined eyes of the Ancient Egyptians. Now on display at the The Corning Museum of Glass.
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A dancer with a removable crocodile helmet from Mexico. Culture: Colima culture, 300 BC-300 AD. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
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Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico, circa 1906.
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Carl Moll (1861 - 1945) Die Römische Ruine in Schönbrunn (Roman ruins in Schönbrunn), 1891.
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A footprint left in a piece of wet mud brick in Ur 4,000 years ago. Ancient Mesopotamia.
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