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“Orpheus”, by Pierre Amédée Marcel-Beronneau (1869 - 1937).
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The oldest door in Britain in Westminster Abbey - a 900-year-old door was put in place in the 1050s, during the reign of Abbey’s founder, Edward the Confessor. The door, which measures 6.5ft by 4ft, was made from one tree which probably grew between AD 924 and 1030.
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Grapes with jade leaves. Medium: Amethyst Place of origin: China, Qing dynasty, 19th century. Private Collection (?)
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“Egyptian Chess Players”, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1879.
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Mapuche medicine women with the symbols of their profession, Chile, 1908.
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Fossilized olive leaves, 50.000 BC. Museum of Prehistoric Thera island, Cyclades, Greece.
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“Sfumato,” painted in 1972 by Salvador Dalí. Dalí developed a new technique here, where he embellished the image after first taking paper and scorching and smoking it with a candle.
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Canova’s “Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss”, by Nan Goldin - 2010.
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Abu Simbel, Egypt. Photographer: Thibaud Chosson.
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Copy of golden head - lion helmet of Alexander the Great as it is depicted at the sarcophagus of Sidon in Lebanon. The sarcophagus, which dates back to the 4th century BC, is now on display at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Turkey. Photographer: Ronald Slabke.
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Quetzalcoatl (feathered serpent), detail from Teotihuacán, Mexico.
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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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Detail, A View of an Ancient City by Hermann Burghart (Austrian, 1834 - 1901).
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Detail of Ascent of the Blessed, Hieronymus Bosch, late 15th century or early 16th century.
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"Ancient Empires" from Folio Society.
Left: Empires of Early Latin America (The Maya, the Aztecs, the Incas)
Right: Empires of the Ancient Near East: the Babylonians, the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Persians.
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Ophelia by Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser (1857-1921).
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An 8.000-year-old marble figurine of a voluptuous woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo. Photo via hurriyetdailynew/AA Photo.
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Eros and the Goddesses of Destiny - Julius Kronberg, 1908.
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Detail of a wall painting from Level III, Catal Hoyuk (modern-day Konya, Turkey): Deer Hunt, c. 5750 BC.
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Hand painted miniature bat fan. On thin shaved wood. Date: c. 1900. Private Collection.
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