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A lion eating the sun. Detail from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium - c.1760. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Gargoyle on the Salisbury Cathedral. Photographer: Akoliasnikoff via Wikimedia Commons.
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The dancer Nikolska on the Acropolis, Athens, 1929.
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The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece (National Archaeology Museum of Athens).
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Cat with a kitten, *gargoyle-chimère on the roof of the Château de Pierrefonds, France. Built ca.1393-1407.
*a grotesque carved human or animal face or figure projecting from the gutter of a building, typically acting as a spout to carry water clear of a wall.
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A man stands on Ramses II lap. Abu Simbel. Egypt, c. 1910s.
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Sleeping Cat by Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (Japan, 1813-1892). Currently on public view: Pavilion for Japanese Art, floor 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US.
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The Birth of Venus (details) by Sandro Botticelli (1483 - 1485). Collection: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
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Komori no godan (bats) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1880-83). Color woodcut, 16.7 x 24.2 cm.
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Rock art of Tassili n'Ajjer Sahara Desert, Algeria, c. 7.000 BC.
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Chauvet Cave Paintings (approximately 30,000 years ago).
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Saint George Killing the Dragon, Bernat Martorell, 1434/35.
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Replica of the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial 1, early 7th century. England. Image: British Museum. The Sutton Hoo helmet was buried around 625 and is widely believed to have been the helmet of King Rædwald of East Anglia.
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Minoan fresco, Akrotiri settlement, Santorini, Greece. Akrotiri is a Bronze Age settlement located in the southwest of the island of Santorini (Thera) in the Greek Cyclades Islands.
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A dancer with a removable crocodile helmet from Mexico. Culture: Colima culture, 300 BC-300 AD. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
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Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896.
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Lunar eclipse, Persepolis, Iran. Photographer: Amir Sadeghian.
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Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (1823-1887) Ophelia.
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Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom (Interpretation in Red), 1890, by Vincent van Gogh.
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The Rosetta Stone proved to be the key to translating the hieroglyphs because it contains the same text in three scripts (Hieroglyph, Demotic, and ancient Greek).
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The Queen Cat (Królewna kotka) by Konstanty Laszczka (1865–1956) - ca. 1928. Photographer & Credit: Przemyslaw Piatkowski, Fotopia & Virtual Museum of Konstanty Laszczka.
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Pesian Achaemenid rhyton made of lapis lazuli and gold. 6th-5th century BC.
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Veiled Truth (detail) by Antonio Corradini, completed 1750.
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