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Swedish wedding crown, early 18th century. Collection: The Walters Art Museum
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Detail, Dante And Virgil In Hell by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850. Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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An embossed and gilt armor for King Henri III of France. Paris, France, ca. 1570. Now on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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Ring with unicorn, heart, lady, and clasped hands. Made in Germany or Italy, c.1550-1600. Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Graf Zeppelin over the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, 1931.
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Black and white photograph depicting two elderly ladies walking in profile in an Athens street. The facade of the shop has two caryatid ornaments with folded arms, at the front of a recessed balcony of the first floor of the shop.
Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson,1953.
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Mourning clothes worn by count Magnus Brahe at the funeral of king Karl XIV Johan of Sweden in 1844.
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Statue of Uta von Ballenstedt (1000-1046), Naumberg Cathedral, Naumburg, Germany. Uta von Ballenstedt was the wife of Margrave Eckard II of Meissen, member of the German dynasty known as the House of Ascania.
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Colossus of Memnon at the Necropolis of Thebes, Egypt, 1965. Photographer: Eliot Elisofon via Smithsonian. As you can see, the Nile has flooded at the time of this image.
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The Parthenon, Athens in 1908. Photographer: Frédéric Boissonnas.
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Le soleil de Rome / The sun of Rome (1865) by Pelle Swedlund (Swedish).
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"Pope Formosus and Stephen VI" - The "Cadaver Synod" by Jean-Paul Laurens (1838–1921). Collection: Nantes Museum of Arts.
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Gold cup shaped like a grinning skull. Culture: Peru, Chancay culture, 1000-1450 AD. Collection: Museum Aan De Stroom, Belgium.
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Gold pendant in the form of a hawk. Date: early 18th dynasty (attribution according to style) (-1550 -1425), Egypt. Place of origin: treasure of Tell el Ajjoul, Palestine. Collection: The Louvre.
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Minoan Ostrich Egg Rhyton. This is anexample of a painted ostrich eggshell belonging to the Minoan (2000-1500 BC) or Mycenaean (1600-1100 BC) civilizations. It’s beautifully decorated with depictions of two giant octopi in red paint. Collection: Ariadne Galleries.
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17th-century memento mori ring. Showing a woman’s face on one side and an enamelled skull on the other. Medium: gold. Collection: © 2017 University of Oxford -Ashmolean Museum.
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The Wickham Market Hoard is a hoard of 840 Iron Age gold staters found in a field at Dallinghoo near Wickham Market, Suffolk, England in March 2008 by car mechanic, Michael Dark using a metal detector. The coins date from 40 BC to 15 AD. Photo: Portable A. Scheme, CC BY 2.0.
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Diana the Huntress by Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912).
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The Garni Temple is the only pagan Hellenistic and Greco-Roman structure that has survived in Armenia and the Caucasus. It was built in honor of the ancient Armenian god Mythra (Mihr in Armenian), God of the Sun, light, and purity. Photo Credit: Stock Image - Istock.
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The lone figure of a soldier on the steps of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Greece, 1941.
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Votive crown: Crown of Recesvinto. Medium: gold, pearls, sapphire.. Geograph: Spain (Visigoths). Date: c. 649-672 AD. Collection: MAN - Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid.
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Pectoral and necklace of Princess Sithathoriunet, Egypt 1887–1813 BC. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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