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“The Thinker” and “The Sitting woman”, a pair of Neolithic statues from Romania, they are c. 7000 years old. Made by the Hamangia culture.
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Bronze statuette of the God Osiris on the seabed of the sunken city of Thonis-Herakleion; VII-II centuries BC. Photograph: © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation.
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A Roman rock-crystal ring, bearing the portrait of an unknown woman, late 1st century or 2nd century AD.
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Mugs from 3.700 years ago. Culture: Minoan civilization. Now on display at the Heraklion Museum, Greece.
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A Roman mosaic glass bowl. From Italy, 1st-2nd century AD.
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Rocca Calascio is a mountaintop fortress or rocca in the Province of L'Aquilain Abruzzo, Italy. This 13th century fortress was featured in Ladyhawke and The Name Of The Rose.
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Stained glass window titled “Autumn Landscape” by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1923-1924.
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Cave of Hands, Argentina - The art in the cave dates from 13.000 to 9.000 years ago.
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Happy Christmas (1891) by Danish artist Viggo Johansen.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all our followers! We wish you peace, health and happiness during the holidays and all year long.
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Devil carrying a soul. missal, France ca. 1470-1475. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 425, fol. 67v.
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Michelangelo, The Torment of Saint Anthony, 1487.
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Hedgehog Model. Model of a hedgehog from Tomb 416 at Abydos (Egyptian faience). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1292 BC. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
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Mummy of fish. Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Now in the Louvre.
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Clever design of book spine: The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, in Seven Volumes, 1946 by Edward Gibbon.
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Protective face mask. Date: 1917-1918. Place of origin: United Kingdom.
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Snake. Place of origin: South Germany or North Italy. Date: late 16th century-early 17th century. Medium: Bronze. Source: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org
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Detail from Painted Garden fresco, House of the Golden Bracelet, Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Naples. c. 1st century AD. #happynewyear
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Carl Gustav Carus, View of the Colosseum by Night, c.1830.
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Vatican Museums under construction, Rome, Italy, Photographer: Massimo Listri.
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The colonnade in the courtyard of the Temple of Isis, Philae, Egypt, circa 1862.
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Costumed performer as The Minoan Snake Goddess at the 2004 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Athens.
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Ancient Greek amethyst intaglio of Achilles playing the cithara, dated to 75-50 BC. Currently located in the Getty Museum.
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Mask of Xiutecuhlti, god of fire; 1325-1521 AD, Aztec-Mixtec, Mexico.
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The Vogelherd horse – one of the oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35.000 years ago in southern Germany.
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