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Baboon Applique From an Animal Mummy, possibly from Saqqara, Egypt. Ptolemaic Period. Now on display at the Brooklyn Museum.
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This fragment of a stela (commemorative stone slab) originally illustrated a prayer invoking the crocodile god Sobek, who provided all that the deceased needed in the next world. circa 1292-1075 B.C. Brooklyn Museum.
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Figure Vessel. Date: 9th–4th century B.C. Geography: Ecuador. Culture: Chorrera. Collection: The Met.
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Gold Amulet of a Falcon Nubian, Napatan Period, reign of Taharqa (Ancient Sudan) 690–664 B.C. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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A brick from the Ziggurat at Ur with a cuneiform inscription and the footprints of a dog who walked across the brick before it had hardened. Excavated by: Sir Leonard Woolley. Collection: British Museum.
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Aztec warriors, dressed as eagles and jaguars, brandish macuahuitls, a traditional Aztec weapon. The macuahuitl was a wooden club spiked with sharp pieces of obsidian, which could be sharpened to be more dangerous than metal. Florentine Codex, created in the 1500s.
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'Morning entrance of Byzantine empress to the tomb of her ancestors' by Vasily Sergeevich Smirnov (1858-1890). Medium: oil on canvas.
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Demon from The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562. Edited by Geum on Redbubble.
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The Ram in a Thicket is a pair of figures excavated at Ur, in southern Iraq, which date from about 2600–2400 BC. One is in the Mesopotamia Gallery in Room 56 of the British Museum in London; the other is in the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, USA.
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Head of a funerary couch in the form of a cheetah or lion, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt. Photo Credit: Treasures of Tutankhamun by Katherine Stoddert Gilbert.
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Carel Willink (Dutch, 1900-1983) Landscape with ruin, 1947 Oil on canvas, 77 x 65 cm.
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Elephant, detail of the 6th century mosaic floor from the Palatium Magnum (Constantinople’s Great Palace), Istanbul.
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Sculpted figurine of two lovers, Natufian, from Ain Sakhri - The first artistic depiction of sexual intercourse dates from 11,000 years ago and was uncovered in the 1930s in the Ain Sakhri caves near Bethlehem. The small sculpture, part of the British Museum collection
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Decoding Anglo-Saxon art. Work by Rosie Weetch, curator and Craig Williams, illustrator, British Museum.
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Mycenaean Terracotta Octopus Goblet, 13th century BC. The Mycenaeans, like the Minoans, painted a wide range of sea creatures on their pottery, especially octopuses. Over time, Mycenaean artists produced ever simpler and more abstract depictions of octopuses.
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Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek byLouis Francois Cassas (French 1756-18279. Medium: watercolor.
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Odysseus and Polyphemus - Arnold Böcklin, 1896. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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Luristan bronze daggers - modern-day Iran, circa 9th-7th Century BC. Private Collection.
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Achaemenid Gold Roundel c. 5th-4th Century BC. Private Collection. With two addorsed rampant lions, their hindquarters touching, necks joined by a single head with jaws gaping, their feet resting on incised circular border.
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Gold ring with lapis lazuli inlays, Minoan, 1850-1550 BC.
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Wooden cosmetic spoon in shape of a mouse. Egyptian used spoons to mix their eye make up on. Period: Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th dyasty, 1525 - 1295 BC. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum.
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A Writer’s Tools. Roman Terracotta Inkwell (1st or 2nd Century A.D.) Roman/Egyptian Papyrus Letter (early 3rd Century A.D.) Byzantine/Egyptian Wooden Tablet (500-700 A.D.) Roman Bronze Stylus (1st or 2nd Century A.D.). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Pegasus Protome, c.339 BC. Collection: Regional Historical Museum, Razgrad, Bulgaria. The rhyton was accidentally discovered during ploughing in 1968 near the village of. Vazovo. Much damaged by its discoverers - much of it is missing.
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A Mayan gold frog with turquoise eyes. Place of origin: Mexico. Photo: Ignacio Guevara.
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