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Detail, mummy portrait of a woman- encaustic on limewood-Romano-Egyptian ca. 160-70 AD-portrait found in Rubaiyat, Egypt. Currently located at the British Museum.
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Excavation of the Royal tombs of Ur. This photograph gives some idea of the depth in which some of the tombs were buried.
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4.000 km from Rome and 2.500 km from Athens, in a remote corner of the South Caucasus, stands an enormous Hellenic temple: the Garni Temple, Garni, Armenia. (c. 77 AD). Photo via historyfilia.
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Lion paws in Rock Fortress Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, AD 495. Sigiriya is an ancient palace, built-in 480 AD, located in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka.
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The Aztec Sun Stone - also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone - is an enormous circular stone carved from basalt, covered with hieroglyphic carvings, weighing 25 tons, 3.60 meters in diameter, and 98 cm thick.
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The Oldest Known Map: The Map of Nippur
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Nebra Sky Disc Nebra, Germany c. 1.600 BC. The Nebra Sky Disc is a decorated bronze plate with gold symbols, as the Sun, the crescent-shaped Moon and 32 stars.
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Cave of Hands, Argentina - Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10.000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
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The rulers of Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates, left behind several breathtakingly beautiful funerary sanctuaries. Mount Nemrut, the most impressive of all the tomb sites, is that of Antiochos I of Commagene (69-34 BC).
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Beautifully decorated woolly mammoth tusk tip from the last glacial at Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic (25,000-30,000 years ago)
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One of the greatest discoveries of archaeology: Bust of Nefertiti.
Bust of Nefertiti (detail) ca. 1340 B.C, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom.
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9,000 year-old-flutes found in China, made of bones. They are still playable.
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The Ishtar Gate, one of the eight gates of the inner city of Babylon, was built during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II. It was one of the eight gates of the inner city of Babylon. It was built in about 575 BC, the eighth fortified gate in the city.
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Antinous at Delphi, c. 130 AD. (Discovered in 1894) - Stricken by the death of Antinous, Hadrian, ordered that statues of the beautiful young man, whom he had loved so passionately, be erected in all sanctuaries and cities of his vast empire.
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One of the great discoveries of archaeology: Shigir Idol, c.10.500 BC, the world's oldest wood sculpture.
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The Terracotta Army, Mount Li, China, 210 BC.
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A footprint left in a piece of wet mud brick in Ur 4,000 years ago. Ancient Mesopotamia.
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace (the Nike of Samothrace) - Samothrace, Greece, c. 200 BC.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace is among the greatest Hellenistic sculptures in the world. Without a doubt, it is one of the most celebrated works of antiquity.
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The Temple of Apollo - Archaeological Site of Delphi, Greece. Photographer: Papaioannou Voula Th. 1950.
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The Temple of Edfu, Egypt. This Ptolemaic temple, built between 237 and 57 BC, is one of the best-preserved ancient monuments in Egypt. Preserved by desert sand, which filled the place after the pagan cult was banned.
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Clay tablets (books) from Ashurbanipal’s Library (containing originally over 30,000 cuneiform tablets) at the exhibition in British Museum, Assyria 7th century BC.
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Gli the Cat of Hagia Sophia (c. 2004 – 7 November 2020)
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