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A goddess holding an Ankh (”key of life”), detail of a wall relief from the Double Temple of Sobek and Haroeris, Kom Ombo.
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Roman bakery in Ostia Antica, near Rome, Italy.
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One of the first written documents of the history found in Mesopotamia. It reads "29.086 units of barley were received. Signature: Kushim".
According to the famous Sapiens writer Norah Harari, Kushim may be the name of the first person in history we know.
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Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century AD). Image Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Greek Bronze Phalanx Spear Head, 4th Century BC. Private Collection (?).
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Blood rain, as a sign of the end of times. Psautier, Augsbourg ~ 1485 Basel Universitätsbibliothek.
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“Portrait of a Woman’s Right Eye,” around 1800, England. The trend of miniature eye portraits being used as tokens of love originated in 1785 with the secret marriage between Prince George of Wales and Maria Anne Fitzherbert.
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Statuette of reclining nude goddess. Date: c. 1st century BC.–1st century AD. Geography: Mesopotamia, Babylon. Medium: Alabaster, glass. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899, New York, US.
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Bust of Diana By Hiram Powers, 1853. - Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Engraved gem (Gold, carnelian) with a youth and his dog inset into a hollow ring. Geography / Date: Italy 3rd–2nd century BC. Now on display at the Getty Museum.
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‘Ulysses and the Sirens’ (Detail) - Herbert James Draper {1909}
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Achaemenid golden ornamental roundel from the reign of Artaxerxes II, featuring a characteristic Persian winged lion, 4th-5th Century BC. Now on display at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. Photo Credit: Ali Majdfar via Flickr.
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The Aztec Double-headed serpent. It is a snake with two heads composed of mostly turquoise pieces applied to a wooden base. It came from Aztec Mexico and might have been worn or displayed in religious ceremonies.
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Hand from a bronze statue of a Roman Emperor that once stood in the Forum Hadriani, the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior (Voorburg, South Holland), dated 1st-3rd cent. AD
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Dolphin, Greece, 300 BC-AD 100. Medium: Bronze, Length: 13 5/16 in. (33.8 cm). Los Angeles Country Museum of Art.
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Lady Godiva - 1898, John Collier, Herbert Art Gallery.
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Marble sculpture of an Amazon on horseback ,a 2nd c.AD copy from a Hellenistic original 2nd c.BC.
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Head of a man with tight, curly hair. Date: Ptolemaic Period - Egypt, 2nd century BC. On View: Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn Museum.
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Ancient Greek silver stater from Syracuse under tyrant Agathokles, dated to 304-289 BCE. On the obverse is Aphrodite (not Athena!), and Pegasus on the reverse.
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German Tournament Targe. Shields of this shape were inspired by Hungarian light-cavalry shields and were adopted in Germany and Austria for the Hussarisch Turnier. The German motto around the owl reads in translation, Although I am the hated bird, I rather enjoy that. 1499.
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Breastplate with the Head of Medusa, 4th century BC. Now on display at the Hermitage Museum.
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Jaguar Pectoral. Culture/Period: Mixteca-Puebla, c.1200–1400. Saint Louis Art Museum: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
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Statuette of a centaur, ca. 530 B.C, Greek, possibly Athenian. Medium: Cast bronze. Now on display at the Princeton University Art Museum.
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More than 300 square feet and nearly 2.000 years old: The Roman mosaic from Lod, Israel.
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