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Famous Pirates Flags - recreated from a tattoo design. (today's design: 1/4)
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Painted chest, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1333–1323 BC.
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Winged scarab. Culture: Egyptian Period: Late Period, Dynasty 25. Date: 760–660 BC., or later.
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Scythian gold torque in the form of dragons, dated to the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. Private Collection (?) via Gemma-Antiqua.
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Caryatids, Acropolis, Athens, 1946. Photographer: Werner Bischof.
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Marilyn Monroe tries archery. Photographer: Anthony Beauchamp, 1951.
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“Athenais” by John William Godward (1861 – 1922).
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Today in History: Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Mehmed II; ends the Byzantine Empire.
Art by Jose Daniel Cabrera Peña.
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Cute toad (oldest form of frog idol) bringer of rain and fertility in Vichama, archaeological site of the Caral Civilization in Peru. 1.800 to 1.600 BC.
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Scaraboid of hedgehog. Culture: Egyptian. Date: Late Period, Dynasty 25–30, c. 760–332 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Babylonian map of the world, 6th century BC.
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Mythical Beasts of the United States of America. Illustration Credit: NeilParkinsonMakes.
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Ancient Greek Silver Coinage from 5th Century BC to 1st Century BC. Credit: Arkaio Nomisma via Wikimedia Commons.
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The rulers of Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates, left behind several breathtakingly beautiful funerary sanctuaries. Mount Nemrut (today Adiyaman, Turkey), the most impressive of all the tomb sites, is that of Antiochos I of Commagene (69-34 BC).
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Helmet in the form of a sea conch shell, 1618. Work of Nagasone Tojiro Mitsumasa (Japanese, Nagasone School, Echizen Province). Collection: the Worcester Art Museum.
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Hercules and the Hydra by Rudolph Tegner, 1918 (Danish 1873-1950). Medium: plaster.
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Sumerian Ceremonial Gold Dagger With Scabbard, Handle Made Of Lapis Lazuli. From The Royal Tombs of Ur. (Modern Reproduction in the British Museum).
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New Kingdom (Egypt) spoon - 3,500 years old. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 117.
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Roman Fresco- Spring maiden gathering flowers from the villa of Varano in Stabiae c. 15 BC-60 AD.
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Daggers of Tutankhamun. Pair of ceremonial daggers discovered by Hoard Carter in 1925 within the burial wrappings of the king, from the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62). Gold and meteoric iron. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Parade helmet of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V 1540, by Filippo Negroli (ca. 1510–1579), Milan.
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Then & Now. One of world's oldest Library: Ebla. Syria.
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An antique fox shaped cleaver, c. 1800s. Place of origin: United States.
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Orcus, Garden of Bomarzo, Italy. Photo by Milton Gendel -miltongendel.com.
Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology.
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