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Megaloceros in the Axial Gallery. This is also known as the black stag, Lascaux Cave, France. The Cave of Lascaux is famous for its prehistoric paintings showing various animals, hunts, and wars. Four local boys discovered them on the 12th of September 1940.
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Gilded Bronze Dragon with an iron core from Tang Dynasty, unearthed from Caochangpo in the southern suburb of Xian in 1975. Shaanxi History Museum. 7th-10th century China.
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The Last Judgment (detail) by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1467-1471.
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Pair of earrings with female figure. Culture: Greek. Date: late 4th century B.C. Medium: Gold. Collection: Dallas Museum of Art.
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The 12 Olympian gods of ancient Greece. Top row left to right: Zeus, Athena, Hera, Apollo. Middle row left to right: Demeter, Artemis, Hermes, Hephaistos. Bottom row left to right: Aphrodite, Dionysos, Poseidon, Ares.
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The cave paintings of Altamira date back between 36.000 and 15.000 BC. The colorful ceiling paintings depict wild animals in motion and at rest, including deer, wild horse in addition to bison all of which represent a high point of Ice Age cave art. Photo: berata / Stock.
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The Last Judgment (detail) by Hans Memling, c. 1467-1471.
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Shaffron of Henry II of France when Dauphin, ca. 1495, Italian. Shaffron is that piece of armor that goes on horse’s face. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Chinese bronze sword with turquoise studded, gold inlaid rock crystal hilt. Date: Warring States Period, c. 4th-2nd century BC from. Collection & Credit: Cardale Auctioneers
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Minoan golden ring from Crete. A male leaping over a bull. Said to be from Archanes, Crete, 1450-1375 BC. Medium: Gold. Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Photographer: Zde / Wikimedia Commons.
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Relief at a Ptolemaeische temple, photography by Kees Scherer, 1968, in Egypt.
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Fede ring, made in England. Date: c. 15th century AD. Inscribed: sauns faileur (without fail). Collection & Credit: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Nose Ornament. Date: 6th–7th century AD. Geography: Peru. Culture: Moche. Medium: Gold, silver, shell. Collection: The Met.
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Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.
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"The Last of his Race". Photographer: L.M.A. Roy - Pictorial Photographers of America, Tennant and Ward, New York Publisher's Agents, 1920.
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The garden of Eden with the fall of man (detail) - Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615.
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Scythian Gold Belt Plaque. Date: c. 5-4th BC. Place of discovery: Western Siberia (?). Siberian collection of Peter I. Now on display at the Hermitage Museum.
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Tripod Plate with Jaguar Holding Decapitated Head. Place of origin: Guatemala, Northern Petén. Culture: Maya. Date: A.D. 700-850.Medium: Slip-painted ceramic. Source: LACMA.
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The lustful in flames (Purgatorio XXV). Detail from the Dante, Divina Commedia, Urbino and Ferrara , 1477-1478. Collection: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb.lat.365, fol. 171v.
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Vivid blue faience cat seated on a base and wearing a collar Sacred animal to the sun god Ra and Bastet. Date: Ancient Egypt - 26th Dynasty. Collection: Sadigh Gallery.
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Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine). Attributed to Oltos. Period: Archaic. Date: ca. 520-510 B.C; Culture: Greek, Attic. Medium: Terracotta; red-figure. Dimensions: H. 11 7/8 in. (30.20 cm).
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John William Waterhouse - Ulysses and the Sirens, detail.
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Snake Bracelet. Date: 100 B.C.–A.D. 100. Place of origin: Egypt. On view at Getty Villa, Gallery 216, Roman Treasury.
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Skull Wearing a Wreath of Flowers (c.1874) by Thomas Satterwhite Noble.
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Skeletons dancing. Etching by R. Stamper (1722-1797). Credit: Wellcome Collection.
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