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The Lady of Elche, Spain, c. 300 BC. The Lady of Elche is a limestone sculpture of the bust of a woman, dated to the 5th or 4th century BC, discovered on August 4, 1897 on an ancient Roman site, the Alcudia, 2 km south of Elche, near Alicante, Spain.
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Art Nouveau Bat Brooch ~ Gold, plique-à-jour enamel, diamond. Origin: European, c. 1905. #artnouveau
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Protective face mask. Date: 1917-1918. Place of origin: United Kingdom.
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Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III; 14th century BC.
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A Maya carving of a frog from Topoxte, Guatemala. Date: c. 700–800 AD. Medium: shell and quartz. Now on display at the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Guatemala City.
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“The Old Temple”, 1788 by Hubert Robert - French (1733-1808). Medium: oil/canvas.
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Ceramic Aztec vase depicting Tlaloc, god of rain, from the Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. 15th century. Image: Stock photo.
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Lady Godiva - 1898, John Collier, Herbert Art Gallery.
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Memento Mori ring with the engraving “Remember you must die,” 1700s. Photo Credit: Caroline Bacher.
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Elliot Erwitt’s 1959 photo of an adorable cat proudly standing atop a garden statue of the ancient Egyptian dwarf-god Bes.
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Medusa by Vincenzo Gemito (Italian, 1852 - 1929). Collection: The Getty.
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Artist’s Sketch of a Swallow, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Medium: Limestone. Dimensions: 6.6 x 10.6 cm. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
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Petra by David Roberts - 1839. Medium: lithograph.
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Dancing Owl, Palaya Qiatsuq, 2013. Private Collection (?).
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John Singer Sargent - Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1921.
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French archeologist Joseph Hackin exploring The Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
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Terracotta Vase in the Form of a Lobster Claw. ca. 460 BC. Greek, Classical. Collection: The Met.
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Clever design of book spine: The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, in Seven Volumes, 1946 by Edward Gibbon.
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Cave of El Castillo, Spain. Hands and a Bison. Some of the hand stencils, mostly near the front and middle sections of the cave, were painted more than 37,000 years ago, but some of the more recent hand stencils are 24,000 years old.
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Hellenistic Gold Wreaths.
In Ancient Greece, wreath crowns were given as prizes to the victors of athletic and artistic competitions. The wreaths were often made from the branches of Laurel, Myrtle, Oak, and Olive trees.
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Vassar college girls practicing Greek dances, 1923.
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The Last Days of Pompeii, 1864, James Hamilton.
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"A dog carrying a corncob". Culture: Western Mexico/ Tumbas de tiro. Style: Comala. Place of origin: Colima. Date: 300 B.C.- A.D. 600. Medium: Modeled, incised and burnished clay. Now on display at the Museo Amparo, Mexico.
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