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An example of ancient Inca Stonework: Coricancha (The Golden Temple, from Quechua quri gold; kancha enclosure), Peru.
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Statuette of Osiris as a Mummy with Erected Phallus. Ptolemaic Period, reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor, ca. 180-145 BC. Now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Inv. 10077.
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Witold Pruszkowski (1846-1896), Falling star, 1884, oil on canvas, 168 x 132 cm. National Museum in Warsaw.
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Moonrise and the temple of Poseidon at Sounio, Greece. Photo via Elias Chasiotis on Flickr.
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Vivid blue faience cat seated on a base and wearing a collar Sacred animal to the sun god Ra and Bastet. Date: Ancient Egypt - 26th Dynasty. Collection: Sadigh Gallery.
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Thomas Cole’s 1836 painting “Destruction,” from his series entitled “The Course of Empire”.
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René Lalique, Suzanne, 1925. France. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass.
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Torso of the goddess Venus Anadyomene (“Venus Rising From the Sea”). Faience, Egyptian blue, 12 cms. Graeco-Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 300 AD. Now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
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Medieval Bees. From Aberdeen Bestiary, England ca. 1200. Collection: Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, fol. 63r.
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Exploring an underground burial chamber near the Pyramids of Giza, date 1925.
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Memento mori earrings by Italian jeweler Codognato, Venice.
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Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858–1938) - Three Holy Kings.
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Aztec Sun Stone, c. 1890s. The Aztec Sun Stone – also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone – is an enormous circular stone carved from basalt, covered with hieroglyphic carvings, weighing 25 tons, 3.60 meters in diameter and 98 cm thick.
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An obsidian mirror found at Catalhoyuk, 8.000 year old Neolithic settlement in the center of Anatolia. Photo Credit: Teegee / Blogspot.
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Whinnying Horse. Tang Dynasty, China, 6-9th century AD.
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Gold snake rings. Snakes were a common motif in jewelry during Roman times. They were associated with healing and the god Asclepius, with protection, as well as resurrection, and immortality.
Roman, c. 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
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Front elevation of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, by David Roberts (1838)
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Hypocast was the warm air heating system used by Romans.
Roman baths typically had water heated by furnaces using wood or charcoal. The hypocaust was a central heating system that predated heating ducts and steam-based radiators.
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Eye of Horus ring in carved faience, c. 1539 - 1975 BC, New Kingdom Egypt.
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The Aztec Sun Stone - also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone - is an enormous circular stone carved from basalt, covered with hieroglyphic carvings, weighing 25 tons, 3.60 meters in diameter, and 98 cm thick.
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Jacques-Louis David - The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Detail), 1799.
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The Aztec Sun Stone - also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone - is an enormous circular stone carved from basalt, covered with hieroglyphic carvings, weighing 25 tons, 3.60 meters in diameter and 98 cm thick. Carved by the Aztecs between 1500 and 1521 AD.
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Our Wish for the End, art by @TheClayshaper, Digital Collage, 2020.
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Suzanne by René Lalique. Date:1925, France. Medium: Glass. Collection:The Corning Museum of Glass.
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