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Maya jade necklace with a pendant of a dignitary’s head, dated to c. 550-950 AD.
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Sculpture of a chicken-headed man. China, Tang dynasty, 7th-10th century AD. Photo Credit: © Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces.
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Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope. Date: ca. 1427-1401 BC. Place of origin: Egypt Period: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC), reign of Amenhotep II. Medium: Boxwood with inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue. Collection: Cleveland Art Museum.
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2.000-year-old Medusa mosaic, which adorns the orchestra section of the 3,600-seat Odeon in the ancient city of Kibyra in the province of Burdur, Turkey. Photographer & Courtesy of: Cihancan Sezgin - @Cihancansezgin
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Laconian hound scratching its head, painted pottery. The Euergides Painter (active c. 500 BC).
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Photographer: Erich Lessing.
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Detail, the Lament for Icarus by Herbert Draper, 1898.
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Romulus, Remus, and their Nursemaid, by Jacques Laurent Agasse, 1805.
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Flask. Culture: Roman. Place of origin: Eastern Mediterranean. Date: A.D. 1st century. Medium: Glass. Source: getty.edu
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Mosaic mask of Quetzalcoatl. Date: 1400-1521. Place of origin: Mexico. Period/culture: Aztec, Mixtec. Medium: Cedrela wood, turquoise, conch shell, gold, beeswax, pine resin. Collection: British Museum.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (details), 1562.
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Olive Wreath. Place of origin: Bosporan kingdom. Date: Mid 4th century B.C. Medium: Gold.
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Gerard Mas - The Philosopher’s Stοne, 2008.
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The World according to Ancient Rome. Work & Credit: Yanko Tsvetkov's Atlas of Prejudice.
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Unknown tourist poses in the Strommeyer and Heymann photographic studio in Cairo (c. 1885)
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Shields with a head of Helios. Culture: Greek. Period: Hellenistic, Date: 310–240 B.C. Place of origin: Eretria, Euboia, Greece. Medium: Terracotta, gilded and painted.
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Diana, the Huntress, Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre, 1833-1916, oil on canvas.
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Black-figure band-cup with the Battle of Gods and Giants. Date: ca. 540–525 B.C. Culture: Greek, Attic. Medium: Ceramic. Source: artmuseum.princeton.edu
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An Egyptian artist’s sketch of pharaoh spearing a lion. New Kingdom, Dynasty 20, ca. 1186–1070 BC. currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, via their online collections.
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Detail, the Adolescent Bacchus by Caravaggio.
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Greek Gold Sphinx Earrings, 3rd-1st century BC. The sphinx was a female monster with the body of a lion, the breast and head of a woman, eagle’s wings and, according to some, a serpent-headed tail.
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Greek Gold and Amethyst Ring, 1st Century BC - Ring with 3 gazelles on the hoop holding an oval mounting with a carved amethyst depicting a female draped bust with stephané and cornucopia and corn ear. Private Collection.
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Egyptian Bronze Ba-Bird Figurine, Roman Imperial Period, 2nd Century AD.
The falcon body has the human head of a pharaoh. He wears the double-crown of which only the red crown of Lower Egypt is preserved, the upper part is missing.
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