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Gabriel Picart (Spanish painter, b. 1962): The Flight of Icarus.
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"Tunnel Book" - repurposed German bible, wood. Art by Ruth Maendel (Canadian).
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Roman Lycurgus Cup is a 1,600-year-old jade green Roman chalice. When you put a source of light inside it magically changes color. It appears jade green when lit from the front but blood-red when lit from behind or inside.
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Hut made of mammoth bones attributed to Cro-Magnon. Mezhirich, Ukraine. Built aprox. 15 000 years ago.
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Ramses II, Luxor, Egypt, 1880s
photo by J. Pascal Sébah.
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Lamenting Women, from the tomb (TT55) of Ramose, c. 1411-1375 BC.
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A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC.
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Gabriel Lekegian - View of the Pyramids, Eclipse of the Sun of August 30, 1905.
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Gate of the Infinite - Legh Mulhall Kilpin (1853-1919).
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Sumerian Ceremonial Gold Dagger With Scabbard, Handle Made Of Lapis Lazuli. From The Royal Tombs of Ur. (Modern Reproduction in the British Museum).
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Thomas Cole’s 1836 painting “Destruction,” from his series entitled “The Course of Empire”.
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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 (today Adiyaman, Turkey), the most impressive of all the tomb sites, is that of Antiochos I of Commagene (69-34 BC).
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A man standing next to Stela K near the eastern border of the Great Plaza, Quirigua, Guatemala. 1894. Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala.
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Ancient Greek hairstyle as seen on one of the Karyatides column statues, which is one of the exhibits in the Athens Acropolis Museum.
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Pair burial of the Scythian Husband and Wife found near Ternopil, Ukraine (c. 1000 BC). Excavated around 1998.
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Grief by Oskar Zwintscher, 1898. Location: New Masters Gallery (Galerie Neue Meister), Dresden.
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Lunar eclipse, Persepolis, Iran. Photographer: Amir Sadeghian.
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The Ladder of Divine Ascent. 12th c. Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
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Stonehenge at snowy sunset. Wiltshire, UK. (Photo: Stock Image)
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Minoan fresco, Akrotiri settlement, Santorini, Greece. Akrotiri is a Bronze Age settlement located in the southwest of the island of Santorini (Thera) in the Greek Cyclades Islands.
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Vesuvius Erupting by Moonlight. 18th century. Pierre Jacques Volaire. French 1729-1799. oil/canvas.
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Astronomical Clock in St Mark’s, Venice. It was designed by Maurizio Codussi and built beginning in 1496. The clock displays the time, the phase of the moon, and the dominant sign of the Zodiac.
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Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mayan, 5th-8th centuries (Photo: Carlos Adampol Galindo, CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Rose window and lancets, north transept, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, ca. 1220. Stained glass, rose window approx. 43’ in diameter.
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Famous Pirates Flags - recreated from a tattoo design. (today's design: 1/4)
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