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The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Photo Credit: Herculaneum: Past and Future, by Andrew Wallace Hadrill (2011).
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Ruins at Mitla, Oaxaca, México, circa 1875. Photographer: Teobert Maler.
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One of the iconic Caryatids overlooking the city of Athens. Photographer: Walter Hege (1893-1955).
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This drawing was made 750 years ago by a 7-years-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novgorod. (Novgorod birch-bank document No. 200) Self-portrait of Onfim as a threefingered horseman, striking the enemy.
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Gold and stone inlaid "Ba" bird, Egypt, 3rd century BC. Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
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Una and the Lion by Briton Riviere (1840-1920).
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Isle of the Dead - Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (detail, circa 1905).
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Portal of the Sun, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia circa 1877.
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“Gossip”, 1911, John William Waterhouse. (1848 – 1917).
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Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (Hungarian, 1860-1933) - Souls on the Banks of the Acheron, 1898.
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Whales. Details from the "Log of the ship Susan" by Reuben Russell, 1841.
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Memento mori ring, made in Flanders, Belgium, or France, c.1526-1575 . The book opens to reveal an inscription and a figure with a hourglass and skull. Collection: British Museum.
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Hanging gardens of Babylon. Illustration by Richard Hook, English (b.1938).
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Two Bracelets of Shoshenq II. Found on the mummy of King Shoshenq II, from his tomb at Tanis. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 945-720 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Blood-moon over the temple of Apollo in Corinth, Greece. Photograph: Valerie Gache/AFP/Getty Images.
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Houses of Çatalhöyük (Reconstruction) - modern-day Konya, Turkey, c. 7,000 BC. The Mud-brick houses were clustered together and there were no outside doors. People went in and out of the houses through openings in the roos.
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Mayan plate with monkey tail in spiral. Date: c. 300-850 AD. Collection: Museo Nacional de Antropología, México
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Bird detail, House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii, c. 30-35 AD. Photographer: Carlo Raso, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Tetradrachm depicting the Owl of Athena. The Goddess of Athens and her virtues were often represented with the Owl, for its ability to pierce through the gloam of night allows it the vision and perception to see well beyond those who are blinded by the darkness around them.
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Hummingbird Cup. Culture: Mixtec. Period: Postclassic. Place of origin: Zaachila, Zimatlán valley, Monte Albán. Date: c. AD. 1225. Now on display at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.
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Rembrandt - Philosopher in Meditation (1632)
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The Museum Hotel is home to the world’s largest mosaic, uncovered in 2010. (c. 300 B.C.) The mosaic rug extends over 1050 square meters and it’s the world’s largest mosaic piece.
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Hut made of mammoth bones attributed to Cro-Magnon. Mezhirich, Ukraine. Built aprox. 15 000 years ago.
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Touch, detail by Anonymous Flemish artist. Collection: Musée national du Moyen Âge - The Lady and the Unicorn series of tapestries. Date: ca. 1484 – 1500 AD.
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