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The Birth of Venus by John Bulloch Souter, 1890. Image: Christies.
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Mosaic floor depicting a dog and a knocked-over gold vessel. Discovered in 1993 during construction of the new Alexandria Library, Egypt. Now in the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria. Width: approx. 70 cm. Date: approx. 200-100 BC.
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The Three Graces, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Temple of Hathor in Dandara, Egypt. 1910s.
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Shoulder of Siberian Ice Princess (Princess Ukok), circa 500 B.C., Urok Plateau, Autonomous Altai Republic, Siberia. The most surprising fact about the princess is her tattoos.
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Theseus stalks the Minotaur inside the labyrinth. Artist:Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.
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Detail of a colossal statue of Antinous as Dionysos Osiris, marble, Roman, Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy.
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Modern recreation of the Colossus Statue of Rhodes by Te Hu. Colossus of Rhodes built on Rhodes Island (Greece) in 292 BC and destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC. It is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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The first picture of Ötzi as he emerged from the melting ice, taken by the finders – the German couple Helmut and Erika Simon. (1991) - Photo Credit: Paul Hanny, Gamma-Rapho via Getty.
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Offering Praxias to Asclepius for healing the eyes of his wife. c. 4rd c. BC. Now on display at the Acropolis Museum, Athens.
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Rabbits between the staves. Cambrai BM 125-128, c. 1540-50.
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Octopus vase from Palaikastro, Minoan, c. 1500 BC., 27 cm high. Now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Greece.
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Persian lion’s head ornament From Hammadan (Iran), 600-500 B.C.
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Pectoral of Horus with Sun-disk. From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Ancient Egyptian carnelian ring, dated to the 18th dynasty, or 1550-1300 BC. Private Collection.
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Salvador Dalí , Melting clock, Bronze, 1977 (Profile of Time).
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Giant Griffin, Persepolis, Iran, circa 516-465 BC. Founded by Darius I in 518 BC, Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek: Περσέπολις, a compound of Pérsēs (Πέρσης) and pólis (πόλις), meaning "the Persian city".
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A storage room with salvaged effigies and sculptures awaiting restoration after a flood in Florence, Italy, in 1966 (photo by Balthazar Korab, 1926-2013)
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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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Pandora (detail) by John William Waterhouse, 1896.
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Wooden torture chair with 12 steel blades, Chinese, c. 1700-1900 AD.
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Statue of the goddess Bastet. Late Period ~ ca.600 BC. Neues Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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Sıberian Ice Princess, circa 500 B.C., Urok Plateu, Siberia. The most surprising fact about the princess is her tattoos. The mysterious tattoos on the neck, arm and leg area have have remained intact for 2500 years.
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"Promise" by Victor Nizovtsev c.2010 (American artist, Russian born 1965]). Oil on canvas.
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