1951
Sarcophagus and lid with husband and wife, Etruscan, 350–300 B.C. Made of marble, found Vulci, Lazio, Italy. Courtesy & currently located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1952
Gold Crocodile Pendant. Quimbaya Culture, Colombia. Collection: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
1953
Pottery: black-figured kantharos with donkey-head attachment. Culture/Period: Attic. Date: 520-500 B.C. Place of origin: Attica, Greece. Collection: British Museum.
1954
The great Shigir Idol (Yekaterinburg, Russia) is an archaeological Ural treasure that humankind has yet to solve. It is approximately 12.500 years, and it is the oldest monumental wooden sculpture in the world.
1955
Falling stars. Detail from the Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Collection: Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 47r.
1956
Gold scorpion pendant. Place of origin: Bactria / Margiana. Date: c. 2nd Millennium BC Collection & Credit: Apollo Galleries.
1957
The Yachou Axe, with grinning face design. China, Shang Dynasty, Period/ Date: Late Shang Period (16th century B.C.-11th century B.C.).Dimensions: Length 32.7cm, Width 34.5cm. Unearthed from Subutun Tomb M1 in Qingzhou City, Shandong Province in 1965. Shandong Museum, China.
1958
Ceramic Vessel in the Form of a Sleeping Dog. Culture: Teotihuacan. Date: Early Classic period, 250 BC–AD 600. Collection: St. Louis Art Museum, On View, Gallery 114.
1960
Ancient Roman marble torso, perhaps a copy of Polykleitos’s Doryphoros, dated to the 1st century AD. Greek original dates to the 5th century BC.
1961
Ring with a small flying duck, Scythian, 4th century BC. Found: Chertomlyk Tumulus. The Dnieper region, near Nikopol, Ukraine. Collection: Hermitage Museum.
1962
Spider, Date- 6th–7th century. Location: Peru. Culture: Moche (Loma Negra). Medium: Gilded copper, shell. Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1963
Ships of the World in 1460 (Fra Mauro Map): Chinese Junks, Arabian Ships, Indian Ships, and European Ships.
1964
Lotus blossoms from the tomb of Kagemni in Saqqara, Egypt. 6th dynasty. Photo taken by Hervé Champollion.
1965
Detail, Lion Hunt scenes from the new North Palace of King Ashurbanipal (667-627 B.C.) on the Citadel at Nineveh. Now on display at the British Museum, London. Photo Credit: Shutterstock / Stock Image.
1967
Shaman costume, Nanai (Goldi), C.1880s. Exhibit in the Asian collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Photo by Daderot via Wikimedia Commons.
1968
Atlantean figures from Temple of Jaguars, Chichén Itzá, circa 1895. Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library.
1969
Half-Suit of Armor for the Field. c. 1575 North Italy, Brescia (?), 16th century.
1970
Detail, Roman mosaic, Basilica of Aquileia - crypt of excavations. Udine, Italy.
1971
Bridal Crown c. 1520. Collection: Nationalmuseet, Denmark. Photographer: Lennart Larsen.
1972
Carel Willink (Dutch, 1900-1983) Landscape with ruin, 1947 Oil on canvas, 77 x 65 cm.
1973
Roman mosaic with marine animals, Santiponce (Italica), Spain.
1974
Medieval Silver Hands Ring, 13th-16th century. A round-section penannular hoop with bulbs and opposed hands to the finials. Private Collection.
1975
Fall of Icarus by Geoffrey Whitney, from Choice of Emblemes, c. 1586.
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