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The Plain of Auvers ~ Vincent van Gogh, 1890.
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Detail, Diadem of Princess Sithathoriunet, daughter of Senusret II, Medium: gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and glass paste. The diadem was made to be worn above the princess wig. Date: Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1897-1878 BC. Collection: Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Parade Halberd (from the state guard of Elector Christian I of Saxony). Date: 1586-1591. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. The halberd was a staff weapon favored by European infantries (foot soldiers) of the 1400s and 1500s for its versatility and deadly effect.
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Brooch by Theodore B. Starr, American, ca. 1900. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 706. Medium: Gold, amethyst, demantoid garnet, and enamel.
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Detail, Statue of Cornelia Antonia from Antiochia in Pisidia. Medium: marble. Date: c. Ca. 160—170 AD. Collection: Istanbul, Archaeological Museums, Turkey. Photographer: Egisto Sani (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).
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Gold scorpion pendant. Place of origin: Bactria / Margiana. Date: c. 2nd Millennium BC Collection & Credit: Apollo Galleries.
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Detail from Bruegel’s The Suicide of Saul, 1562.
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River God by Mitch Shea (b. 1987). Florence Academy of Art, IT.
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Pandore by William Bouguereau, 1890. Medium: Oil on canvas.
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Boats on the Nile, 1900.
The Nile was held up to the ancient people as the source of all life in Egypt and an integral part of the lives of the gods. The Milky Way was considered a celestial mirror of the Nile and it was believed the sun god Ra drove his ship across it.
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"Chichén Itzá Ruins, Yucatán". Photographer: Hugo Brehme c. 1905–25.
Chichén was founded about the 6th century AD, presumably by Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula who had occupied the region since the Pre-Classic, or Formative, Period (1500 BC–300 AD).
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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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Maya sandstone stela (F) at Quiriguá, Guatemala, raised c. 761 A.D. Photograph date: 1880's, by Alfred Percival Maudslay.
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Interior of Hagia Sophia. The Hagia Sophia was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until the completion of the cathedral of Seville in Spain in 1511.
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Reconstruction of the “Queen of the Night” relief depicting the goddess Ištar-Inanna, ***or*** Lilītu, female demon in ancient Sumerian religion. Credit: British Museum. Date: 1800-1750 BC., Old Babylonian.
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Statue of Buddha, monastery of Tapa Kalan, Afghanistan, found in 1923. This photograph is from Paris’s Musée Guimet - Musée National des Arts Asiatiques as part of the French Museum Collection. Les archéologues en Asie Centrale by Svetlana Gorshenina.
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Illustration of the Pharos of Alexandria. © Sergey Kamshylin / Fotolia.
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Ring with a bust of Jupiter, ca. 50 BC. - AD. 20. Collection: State Museums, Germany, Berlin, Old Museum.
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The Kings and Queens of England - Poster with the English monarchs from the time of Egbert, first king to rule all of Britania through until the modern day as depicted on their own coins. Credit: Dirty Old Coins, LLC.
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Crystal Boy by Massimiliano Pelletti, 2017. Onyx. Image via: Colossal.
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Mercury Tying His Sandals, Jean-André Delorme, 1881.
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Woodcut print of the twelve signs of the zodiac, German, 16th century.
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Fig. 112. “Principal types of pottery in Ancient Egypt.” The Encyclopaedia Britannica. v.9. 1922.
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Fragment of the colossal statue of Constantine the Great, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, Italy (1954).
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