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Greek theatre Taormina with the smoke eruption of Mount Etna on May 18, 1886.
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A goddess holding an Ankh (”key of life”), detail of a wall relief from the Double Temple of Sobek and Haroeris, Kom Ombo.
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Crab Man from Old Lord of Sipan Tomb, Peru. Date: c. 200 AD. Culture: Moche. Made from gold, copper, and polished stone.
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Witches and Sorceresses in John William Waterhouse paintings.
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Prometeus making man from clay by Constantin Hansen, c. 1845. Private collection.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme - Truth coming from the well armed with her whip to chastise mankind (1896)
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Stonehenge at snowy sunset. Wiltshire, UK. (Photo: Stock Image)
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Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope. Date: ca. 1427-1401 BC. Place of origin: Egypt Period: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC), reign of Amenhotep II. Medium: Boxwood with inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue. Collection: Cleveland Art Museum.
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Gli the Cat of Hagia Sophia (c. 2004 – 7 November 2020)
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Scaraboid of hedgehog. Date: Egyptian Late Period, Dynasty 25–30, 760–332 BC. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Pazuzu Demon, Neo-Assyrian Bronze Figurine, c. 800-600 BC. Collection: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
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Breastplate from a suit of parade armor by Giovan Paolo Negroli (Italian, Milan ca. 1513–1569). Medium: Steel, gold. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 374.
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Portrait of a Woman (Detail) by Nicolas de Largillière, 1696. Collection: The Met.
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Shopping list of Michelangelo, c. 1518. As you can see, he sketched out a little picture of most of the things he intended to buy – including, herring, fennel soup, and wine.
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Venn diagram of shared and unshared letters of the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic writing systems. #languages
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Mythical Beasts of the British and Irish Isles - by NeilParkinsonMakes.
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Il Consiglio alla Vendetta by Francesco Hayez (detail) Italian, 1791-1881. Medium: oil on canvas.
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General view of "Girls in Bikini" Mosaic., Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, c 3rd. century AD.
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More than 300 square feet and nearly 2.000 years old: The Roman mosaic from Lod, Israel.
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Hell. St. Augustine, La cité de Dieu. Maître François - ca.1475 AD .
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Details from the Comet Book (1587). This stunning set of images come from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and now held at the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel. Commonly known as The Comet Book (or Kometenbuch in German).
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The golden diadem of the princess Meda, found in the tomb of Philip II of Macedon. Aigai, Macedonia, Greece. 4th century BC.
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Abu Simbel in Nubia, southern Egypt, 1860s, photo by Francis Frith.
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