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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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Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century)
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Inside the Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Photographer unknown.
“While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.” -Venerable Bede (c. 673-735)-
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The Orkney Hood, found in a peat bog in 1867, is the only complete item of fabric clothing to have survived from early medieval Scotland. Date: c. 250-615 AD, now on display at the National Museum of Scotland.
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Hieronymus Bosch c. 1500 Garden of Earthly Delights (detail)
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Black and white halftone print of Baluchi Traders walking past Bamian’s Buddha in Afghanistan, 1933.
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Rock art of Tassili n'Ajjer Sahara Desert, Algeria, c. 7,000 BC. About 7,000 years ago, the climate changed again and the Sahara began to dry up.The animals either died out completely or moved elsewhere.
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Man atop a moai, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), circa 1936.
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Details from Seated Scribe: Eyes. What mesmerises most people are the Seated Scribe's extraordinarily life-like eyes. On the back of the eye is a layer of organic material which creates the colour of the iris.
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The Questioner of the Sphinx, Elihu Vedder, 1863.
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Baia is home to the most spectacular submerged treasure in the Mediterranean, its ruins having slowly sunk into the Bay of Napoli over the centuries because of the region’s frequent earthquakes.
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Aam Aastha: Indian Devotions. Photographer: Charles Fréger
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A medieval book mended with silk thread. Parchment was difficult to make and expensive to replace, and so medieval scribes would often find other ways to restore them and help ameliorate further damage.
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Gold Roman snake bangles found amongst the ruins of Vesuvius, Naples. Photo Credit: National Geographic, May 1984.
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Detail of The Delphic Sibyl, 1509, by Michelangelo (1475-1564)
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Gladiatorial parade bronze helmet. From Pompeii. Naples Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 79 AD
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Lamenting Women, from the tomb (TT55) of Ramose, c. 1411-1375 BC.
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The Antikythera mechanism (C.150-100 BC) indeed has an extremely complex structure. Due to its astrolabe-like appearance, it was thought to be a tool used for navigation in ships, but later it turned out to be a much more complex machine.
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The Riace Warriors, two full-size Greek bronzes of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460–450 BC and found in the sea off Calabria.
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Ruins of the colossal sandstone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III at the necropolis of Thebes, Egypt, during an inundation of the Nile River. Photographed by Eliot Elisofon, 1965.
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Library of Ashurbanipal - Mesopotamia, 1500-539 BC. Now on display at the British Museum, London.
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The cow goddess Hathor breast feeding young prince, later king Amenhotep II (polychrome limestone), detail of a bas-relief from the Temple of Thutmose III, Deir el-Bahari, West Thebes. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1427-1401 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Bust of Neptune by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1700-1759). Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
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Ancient Egyptian frog ring, dated to the eighteenth to nineteenth dynasties of the New Kingdom, or c. 1543-1187 BC.
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Bull Jumping, fresco wall painting, Knossos, Crete. c. 1700 BC.-1500 BC.
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