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The floor of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Santa Maria del Fiore, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, is the third largest church in the world and was the largest church in Europe when it was completed in the 15th century.
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Detail, Water Lilies by Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945). Private Collection.
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Gold bracelet from the tomb of Shoshenq II (r. 887-885 BC) mounted with a lapis lazuli scarab, from Tanis, 3rd Intermediate, 22nd Dynasty.
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A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & Horses in the 17,000-year-old cave paintings of Lascaux in South-West France.
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The Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa) in Tivoli, Italy. Photo Credit: Aquilifer - Wikimedia Commons.
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Sabatons are armored footwear worn as part of a complete suite of armor. This pair of authentic German gothic sabatons (Crakows-style) are from 1490. Collection & Photo Credit: Bata Shoe Museum, Ontario.
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Necklace of Princess Khenmet, daughter of Amenemhat II. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1991-1803 BC. Collection: Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
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Four dogs huddled together (marble) from the House of the Faun, Rome 1st BC.
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Bison depicted at the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, dated to the Upper Paleolithic period (circa 17000 – circa 12000 years ago).
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Augustus of Prima Porta statue and how it looked originally. 1st century AD. Collection: Vatican Museums, Vatican.
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Spiral finger ring. Period & Date: Hellenistic, C. 200 BC- 100 BC. Medium: Gold. Now on display at the Museum of Cycladic Art.
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Otter statue. Period: Late Period or Ptolemaic Period. Date: 664–30 B.C. Geography: From Egypt. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
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Humanoid Khepri Scarab. Date/Period: Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, Germany.
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A brick from the Ziggurat at Ur with a cuneiform inscription and the footprints of a dog who walked across the brick before it had hardened. Excavated by: Sir Leonard Woolley. Collection: British Museum.
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Frog Amulet. Date: c. 1540-1296 BC / Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18. Medium: carnelian. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In Ancient Egypt the frog was a symbol of mortal life and fertility, Heqet being the goddess of child-birth.
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The lion-headed storm-demon Ugallu (Akkadian, ūmu rabû). Neo-Assyrian alabaster wall panel, Nineveh, Iraq ~ ca.640 BC. Collection: British Museum. #MuseumWeek
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View of Paris from the Notre Dame by Jean Pierre Yves-Petit, circa 1930.
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Venus de Milo at the Louvre about to be evacuated at the beginning of the World War II (1939), photographed by Angèle Dequier.
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Minoan Bull’s Head Rhyton, ca. 1450 B. C. from the Little Palace of Knossos, Crete.
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Details, Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire Destruction, 1836.
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Right Eye from a Greek statue, c. 500–100 BC. Made of marble, obsidian, glass, and copper, 2,1 x 4,9 cm. Collection: The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Detail, Great Tenochtitlan (La Gran Tenochtitlan), 1945 by Diego Rivera. In 1345 the Aztecs, or Mexica as they called themselves, founded the city of Tenochtitlan in the middle of Lake Texcoco.
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Adam and Eve in Paradise by Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois (1852-1923).
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Nephrite jade carving of a snail, by Carl Fabergé, late 19th to early 20th century. Collection: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
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Danaides (Daughters of Danaus), John William Waterhouse, 1903.
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