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Aerial view of the Forbidden City - Beijing, China. The Forbidden City is the palatial heart of China. Constructed in 1420, during the early Ming Dynasty, it is China's best-preserved imperial palace, and the largest ancient palatial structure in the world.
1527
Ceramic Aztec vase depicting Tlaloc, god of rain, from the Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. 15th century. Image: Stock photo.
1528
Ring with engraved oval bezel with heraldic bulls. Period: Early Aegean, Helladic, Late Helladic II-III A Period, about 1600-1300 B.C. Medium: rock crystal. Now on display at the MFA Boston.
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Discovery of the frozen mummy "Juanita" near the summit of Ampato, north of Arequipa, 1995. Photo by Johan Reinhard, "Peru in Images".
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Evening near the Pyramids. Photo by Ernest R. Ashton, 1898.
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Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858–1938) - Three Holy Kings.
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Cape. c. 1570-1580. Collection: Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.
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Roman mosaic from V century AD, depicting war-elephant. Object was found in Huqoq, a Roman-Jewish village in ancient Galilea. It is one of the few glimpses into the appearance of the war elephants of antiquity. Photographer: Jim Haberman via huffpost.
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Circe by John Collier (1885).
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Adam Elsheimer - The Flight into Egypt, c. 1609, detail.
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Ancient Greek gold and carnelian earrings with duck-shaped pendants. C. 323-30 BC. From the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Vintage photo of the Temple of Apollon Epicurius (= “Apollo the Helper”) at Bassae, Greece. The temple was constructed in mid-5th century BC. Photo by Dimitris Harisiadis.
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‘Lady of Baza’, Limestone sculpture (really a cinerary urn) from Grave 155, Baza (Granada). 4th cent. BC. Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid. Photo via Alamy / Stock Image.
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Quartz sandstone sculptures from Lepenski Vir. Date: c. 6.000. These statues are thought to represent the river gods or the residents’ ancestors. Their size is 16-60 cm, and they represent human heads with protruding eyes and lips or complete figures with a fish's body.
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The Medea krater. Side A: Medea departing in a chariot. Place of Origin: Lucania, Italy. Date: ca. 400 BC. Attributed to the Policoro Painter. Now on display at the Cleveland, Museum of Art.
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Sacra di San Michele X-XI century, Piedmont (northwestern Italy) It is situated on the south side of the Val di Susa. Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” was inspired by this monumental abbey.
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‘Conception of Merlin’. Detail from Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, Inc. 1286. Lancelot en prose. 15th century.
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Great Pyramid, Egypt. circa 1860.
1544
Gobekli Tepe - Pillar with a reptile sculpture, Southeastern Anatolia Region, modern-day Urfa, Turkey. circa 9000 BC.
1545
Front elevation of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, by David Roberts (1838)
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Kampa Dzong, Tibet. Photo by John C. White, 1904. Kampa Dzong, whose name is also spelt as Khampa, Kamba and Gamba, is a Tibetan town north of Sikkim. It is the headequarters Kamba County. It has a historic hill-top fort.
1547
Greek theatre Taormina with the smoke eruption of Mount Etna on May 18, 1886.
1548
Plaque of a man and woman on bed engaged in sexual intercourse. Place of origin: Bismaya, Iraq. Period: Isin-Larsa, Old Babylonian. Collection: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
1549
Stream of water under the Colosseum and tunnels.
1550
Cruciform (Cross) Tomb at Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Period/Culture : Zapotec. Photograph Date: c. 1920s (?). The name Mitla is derived from the Nahuatl name Mictlán, meaning the "place of the dead" or "underworld." Its Zapotec name is Lyobaa, which means “place of rest.”