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A very well preserved 3,000-year-old bronze sword was recently discovered in the southern Bavarian town of Nordlingen in Germany [1136x1704]

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A very well preserved 3,000-year-old bronze sword was recently discovered in the southern Bavarian town of Nordlingen in Germany [1136x1704]

More than 10,000 years ago, a woman or young man made 2 trips separated by at least several hours, carrying a toddler in at least one direction. Their trackway, in what's now New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, stretch for 1,5 km and consists of more than 400 human prints [1377x1444]

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A 1,500-year-old arrow was discovered last week in Norway, nestled between rocks. The research team believes it was encased in ice and was then transported downslope when the ice melted [2048x1536]

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There are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan, that have blood stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of Fushimi Castle where Torii Mototada and his remaining 380 samurai warriors killed themselves, in 1600, after a long hold-off against an army of 40,000 for 11 days [999x1432]

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The Sweet Track is a 5830-year-old Neolithic timber walkway, located in the Somerset Levels in England and discovered in 1970. It was originally part of a network of tracks built to provide a dry path across the marshy ground [1399x1024]

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X-ray scans of Carreno de Miranda's 1681 portrait of the King Charles II of Spain reveal that the artist painted over an earlier portrait of the King when he was much younger [1200x1145]

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The Ksar Draa in Timimoun, Algeria, is an ancient ruin that stands out in the middle of an ocean of dunes, and it's history has been lost over the centuries. The only news related to it is that for a certain period of time it was occupied by the Jews of the Timimoun region [745x998]

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Dr Irving Finkel holding a 3770-year-old tablet, that tells the story of the god Enki speaking to the Sumerian king Atram-Hasis (the Noah figure in earlier versions of the flood story) and giving him instructions on how to build an ark which is described as a round 220 ft diameter coracle [672x900]

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A 7000-6000 year old burial of a young woman (aged around 20 when she died) and her newborn baby from Vedbaek, Denmark. By her head were 200 red deer teeth, and the child is cradled in the wing of a swan with a flint knife at its hip. It’s thought the pair died together in childbirth [1576x1144]

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In the summer of 2018, at Rousses, Crete, a farmer was trying to park below the shade of an olive grove in his property. The ground gave up and through the 1.2 meter (4ft) hole he found a Minoan tomb, undisturbed for around 3,400 years, this is pretty much the first good look at it. [760x507]

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A 2000-year-old Roman silver dagger, that was discovered by an archeology intern in 2019 in Germany, before and after nine months of careful restoration work [2154x2011]

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A Viking era ring inscribed with the words 'for Allah', found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka, 25 km west of modern-day Stockholm. The ring constitutes a unique material evidence of direct contact between the Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate [2000x1357]

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The shaman of Bad Durrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was burried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle [2077x1962]

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Modesty by Antonio Corradini is a marble sculpture completed in 1752 during the Rococo period. Corradini was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro to sculpt a memorial for his mother in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, where the marble sculpture remains today [768x865]

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Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802) a French painter famous for his unorthodox self portraits [2099x1802]

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The remains of a female vampire, pinned to the ground with a sickle across her throat to prevent her returning from the dead, were found during archaeological work at a 17th century cemetery in the village of Pien in Poland [638x851]

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Face of a man who died in 1361 during the Battle of Visby in Swedeп, one of the wildest of Eυrope. [1800x1600]

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Charlemagne's Throne in Aachen. From then until 1531, it served as the coronation throne for thirty-one Kings of Germany. (1280x1920)

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Fall of the Rebel Angels, carved out of a single piece of marble in 1740 by Italian sculptor Agostino Fasolato, it depicts 60 fallen angels. (1131x1400)

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Photo of an upper lid coffin found in newly discovered Egyptian cemetery, dated New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty B.C [1152x1536]

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The Sin, by the German genre painter and illustrator Heinrich Lossow, c.1880 CE [2116x3136]

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carbonized loaves of bread from Pompeii and Herculaneum! (640x640)

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This is one of many hair ropes used during the reconstruction of Higashi Hongan-ji Temple in 1895 in Kyoto. As there was no rope strong enough to hoist the temple’s massive wooden beams, in response, female devotees cut off their hair and braided it into strong and thick ropes [682x1631]

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An Ottoman supply train still resting where Lawrence of Arabia ambushed it nearly a century ago on the Hejaz railway. (3400x2274)

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The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world's best preserved 17th century ship [1994x2048]

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One of the hundreds of elongated skulls that were discovered in 1928 at Paracas Peninsula in Peru. Cranial deformation was practiced by the Paracas civilization (800-100 BCE) by tightly wrapping the head in cloth, during the first few years of life, in order to elongate the cranium [2069x1592]

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The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1800 papyri that were carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE), constituting the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. Now using new x-ray technique, these scrolls are being read for the first time in millennia [3072x4352]

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This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap. [1800x1200]

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Les Saltimbanques - painting by Gustave Dore depicting family of street performers mourning their child who is critically wounded after an accident during tightrope walking, France, 1874 [1172x1432]

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The early Bronze Age Grave 110 of a rich woman, from Franzhausen I cemetery in Austria. The woman, who died approximately 4000 years ago, was found buried with elaborate bronze ornaments and a unique headdress. Now housed at the Natural History Museum in Vienna [2696x2048]

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A Native American 28-foot canoe estimated to be 1,000 years old was recovered last week from southeastern North Carolina's Lake Waccamaw [1280x1753]

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Just found this old document showing that one of my ancestors served under Napoleon I as light infantryman during the entirety of his reign [4032x3024]

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Tea gown, France, ~1897. Owned by the Countess Greffulhe, who often chose clothing of a brilliant green color because it complemented her auburn hair. [683x1024]

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Ukrainian soldiers dug trenches and discovered ancient amphoras dated to around 4-5 centuries BC. Artifacts were transferred to the Odessa Archaeological Museum. [640x853]

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Believed to be 11,000 years old. Karahantepe (Near Gobeklitepe) Discovered yesterday. (1242x1558)

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Portrait of U.S. president Chester A. Arthur in samurai attire, painted for him as a gift by Nakayama Toshitsugu. Japan, 1881 [1500x2200]

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Roman bronze sculpture of a hand in a hang loose position, 2nd - 3rd Century C.E. (532x504)

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Body part-shaped hot water/oil bottles found at the Asklepieion of Nea Paphos, Cyprus. Dated in the Roman era, exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Paphos. [2080x4144]

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Roman bird-shaped glass vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside the vessels and the tip of the tail had to be broken to remove the perfume. The one in the bottom picture (dated to the 1st century CE) is still intact and filled with the scented content [1279x1632]

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“Death blowing bubbles,” one of the several depictions of death created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany. The bubbles are symbols of the fragility of life [1080x1009]

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A 19th century Japanese Firemen’s coat decorated with a spider hovering over an abandoned Go board. [1080x835]

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Years of restoration at the 2,200-year-old Temple of Esna, in Egypt, has revealed the vibrant original colors that have been covered by centuries of dirt, soot, and bird poop [1439x3019]

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Jade burial suit, Han Dynasty (202BCE - 220CE) [1280x837]

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A Central African lyre made from a human skull, antelope horns, skin, gut, and hair. 19th century CE, It is currently stored at The Metropolitan museum[1080x1069].

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A freshly discovered fresco in Pompeii with a tray of food on it (source in comment)[1280x856]

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A golden ram and a stone lion, found in a tomb at the archaeological site of Gonur Depe (dated from 2400 to 1600 BCE) in Turkmenistan. The finger in the background shows how small these figures are, demonstrating the extraordinary skill of the craftsmen [1900x1276]

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A nearly complete 1st century BCE carnyx found in 2004 at Tintignac, France (the one in the left picture, with a reconstruction in the right). Fashioned as a snarling boar, the carnyx was a war horn used by the Iron Age Celts between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE [1513x1536]

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More than 100 old books, manuscripts and documents, some 1,200 years old, were recently discovered in the attic of the St. Margaret Evangelical Church in Medias, Romania, by a team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Adinel Dinca from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj [2048x1536]

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Over 100,000 ceramic wares from two Chinese shipwrecks, 1500 meters deep in the South China Sea. Discovered in May 2023. Ships dated to the Ming dynasty, 1506-1522 [1650x1890]

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The remains of the Red Queen found in the Mayan city of Palenque in Mexico, dated 600 - 600 A.D.. She was covered with bright red cinnabar powder. (1200x1663)

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Spear and arrow heads from the Battle of Thermopylae [4517 x 6225]

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The graves of a catholic woman and her protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together because of their differing faiths. 1888 CE, located at Het Oude Kerkhof in Roermond, the Netherlands [1920x2553]

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The children were sacrificed in an Inca religious ritual that took place around the year 1500. In this ritual, the three children were drugged with coca and alcohol then placed inside a small chamber 1.5 metres (5 ft) beneath the ground, where they were left to die.[1024x458]

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A mass grave of troops from the second Battle of Himera in Sicily in 409 B.C., and a horse. (2048X1365)

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In 1938, 17 brass and copper heads and the upper half of a brass figure (dated to the 14th-15th century CE) were found by accident during house building works at Ife in Nigeria. The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Western conceptions of African art [1061x1222]

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Sumerian city of Uruk, considered first civilized city in the world 6500-4000 BC. [1200x1300]

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The Castle of Coca is a castle located in the Coca municipality, central Spain. It was constructed in the 15th century and has been considered to be one of the best examples of Spanish Mudejar brickwork which incorporates Moorish Muslim design and construction with Gothic architecture [1349x1687]

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A 600-year-old medieval hat from Lappvattnet. The hat, which is made of felted sheep’s wool, was preserved in a bog. Now housed at the Vasterbottens Museum in Sweden. (612x578)

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The physical change of the Roman emperor Nero as seen on the coins issued during his reign [348x388]

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Hidden painting showing St George slaying a dragon found behind a 16th century painting titled “Life of San Severo” - Church of Saint George Maggiore in Naples, Italy - Discovered during restoration. Link to video in comments. [1200 x 1500]

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The Theodosian Walls (the walls of Constantinople), the strongest fortification of humanity for over a millennium [1000x1217]

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A 15-foot-long dugout canoe discovered last fall in Wisconsin's Lake Mendota has been scanned with high-tech tools and dated to around 1,200 years ago [2987x2562]

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The Cosquer cave is a Palaeolithic decorated cave, located in France, that contains numerous cave drawings dating back as far as 27,000 years BP. The cave has more than 200 parietal figures and is also the only decorated cave whose entrance opens under the sea [2560x3253]

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2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): this artifact was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact [1628x1999]

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The Norias of Hama are a series of 17 norias, historic water-raising machines for irrigation, along the Orontes River in Hama, Syria. They are notable for their medieval origins and for the enormous size of two of them, which were for nearly 500 years the tallest waterwheels in the world [600x882]

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This whaling suit from Greenland, made some time before 1834, is the only complete suit of its kind in the world. The hunter crawled into the sealskin suit through the central hole, making it waterproof by pulling the hole closed. Now housed at the National Museum of Denmark [613x1312]

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The use of LIDAR technology on the sprawling metropolis of Calakmul, in southern Mexico, has allowed archeologists to peel away the rainforest and reveal the remains of an ancient Maya city nearly twice the size of the City of Vancouver [1439x1794]

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Napoleon Bonaparte’s death mask in bronze, cast 40 hours after his death on 5 May 1821. (1280x853)

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The Pine Trees screen is a pair of six-panel folding screens, by Hasegawa Tohaku, that depicts a view of Japanese pine trees in the mist, with parts of the trees visible and parts obscured. The screens, made in the late 16th century, were designated as a National Treasure of Japan in 1952 [1000x524]

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Amethyst grapes with jade leaves. China, Qing dynasty, 19th century [2640x2100]

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Archaeologists unearthing some 3500-year-old mummies inside the tomb of an jeweler named Amenemhat, in Luxor, Egypt. (1500x2254)

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A new research revealed this year that this obsidian mirror used by Queen Elizabeth I’s famed political advisor and occultist John Dee to 'speak' with angels has Aztec origin. The mirror was crafted in Aztec Mexico more than 500 years ago and is now on display at the British Museum [1200x1787]

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These stunning mosaics have just been unearthed under a vineyard in Italy, in the province of Verona, near the town of Negrar. They have been dated from 3rd to 4th Century [720x960]

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The mummy of king Tutankhamun was laid inside 3 coffins nested within each, with the innermost coffin made of 110.4 kg of solid gold. For the first time since his tomb was opened 100 years ago, the 3 coffins will be displayed together at the new Grand Egyptian Museum [1124x1967]

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Medieval ax with a preserved wooden handle discovered on the island of Ledniczka in Poland [800x1200]

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The Skeleton of St. Pancratius in the Church of St. Nikolaus, Switzerland. Taken from the Roman Catacombs, the bones of St. Pancratius arrived in the city of Wil in the 1670s where they were articulated by a team of nuns, who dressed him in a beautiful suit of armour.[640x1031]

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The Roman Amphitheatre of Catania in Sicily, 2nd century CE. The city of Catania has been buried by lava a total of 17 times in recorded history, and in layers under the present-day city are the Roman city that preceded it, and the Greek city before that [1080x1251]

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Frog, by the Japanese artist Matsumoto Hoji. 1814 CE [1120x1578]

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A trove of 24 bronze statues was just discovered in a network of baths built by the Etruscans in Tuscany, dating back 2300 years. They were preserved by mud and boiling water from the hot springs in the baths. (3072X2304)

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Depictions of Medjed from the Greenfield papyrus (950s-930s BCE). Medjed (meaning The Smiter) is an ancient Egyptian god who shoots rays of light from his eyes, and who goes round about heaven robed in the flame of his mouth, commanding Hapi (Nile god), but remaining himself unseen [456x338]

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Remnants of a ringed iron age hill fort built at Old Sarum, dated to 400 B.C., in Salisbury, England. (3789x3789)

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A pair of Levi's jeans from the 1880s found down an abandoned New Mexico mine have been sold at auction for a total of $87,400. They are flecked with wax over the legs from where the original owner labored under candle light [1153x1798]

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Sunghir 1 is a 30,500-30,000 year-old burial of an adult male that was found in Russia in the 1960s. The man was found placed on his back, covered with 3000 mammoth ivory beads, 12 pierced fox canines and 25 mammoth ivory arm bands, with his whole body covered in red ochre [3072x2295]

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The head of the slain Swedish king Charles XII, killed in 1718 by a projectile while inspecting his troops' lines during the siege of Fredriksten in Norway. The shot struck the left side of his skull and exited from the right. These photos were taken during a 1917 autopsy [1200x1787]

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An early example of a successful cranioplasty (Peru, ca. 400 CE). The patient survived, as evidenced by the well-healed in situ cranioplasty made from a gold inlay. Now on display at the Gold Museum of Peru and Weapons of the World in Lima [1200x1448]

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Column from a XII Century portal, Saint-Lazare d'Avallon church (France) [934x934]

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The 4000-year-old skeletons of a mother who was trying to shield her child from a massive earthquake that struck China in 2000 BC and triggered massive floods, in an event that is sometimes referred to as ‘China’s Pompeii’. Now located at the Lajia Ruins Museum in northwest China [1200x798]

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Empty cans from Franklin's lost expedition (1845) still litter the grounds of Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic. [1170x766]

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Neighbors barging in on a homosexual couple, blowing trumpets and beating drums to publicly announce their sin. Ottoman miniature, 1721. [1335x1800]

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9000 year old cave painting in Tassili cave Algeria . Depicting a shaman during psychedelic mushroom use. (890x 632)

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A large Roman mosaic depicting a lion found in Salakta, Tunisia. 3rd century CE, now on display at Salakta archeological museum [640x535]

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left burial of the bronze age Egtved Girl, buried circa 1370 BC in Denmark, right a modern recreation of her clothes [1589x2329]

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The coronation gloves of Elizabeth I (1559) and Elizabeth II (1953) [706x1000]

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The earliest depiction of Jesus, engraved by someone mocking their friend for believing in him, giving him a donkey head ~200AD [968x508]

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Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church located in the Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is situated at a height of 2,580 metres (its entrance is highlighted by a red circle) and has to be climbed on foot to reach. It is notable for its wall paintings dating back to the 5th century [4312x2918]

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A 3,000-year-old clay pig found in 2020 at the Lianhe Ruins in China. When it was discovered, the pottery has gone viral as it looks similar to the pigs in AngryBirds. Now housed at the Sanxingdui Museum [1190x947]

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My 200 year old house was used as a hospital during the American Civil War. These were found in or around it by myself. (4032 ×3024)

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The gold Seal of Na, the first textual record of Japan as a country. China/Japan, 57 AD [1455x960]

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A 1800-year old ceramic horse. Han Dynasty (202 BCE– 9 CE, 25–220 CE), now housed at the Sanxingdui Museum in China [695x900]

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Great bathtub of Emperor Nero, made of porphyry. The object was originally located in Nero’s palace (Domus Aurea); it is now in the Vatican museums in Rome. [1200x996]

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A 2000 year old Roman child's wooden sword found from the Vindolanda fort site in northern England. (1472x2047)

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Victorian Courting Conversation Chair, Europe 19th Century. [706x550]

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A 700-year-old well-preserved lacquer coffin dating back to the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368), discovered in east China's Jiangsu Province in 2018 [1920x2880]

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Skull of a 14 year-old girl believed to be a victim of cannibalism at the Jamestown colony in the winter of 1609. Butchery marks can be seen on forehead. [1200x1500]

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an ancient Clay tablet found in Uruk (Warka) southern Iraq, inscribed with Cuneiform script and 3 geometric circles containing astronomical calculations, dated to the ancient Babylonian period (2004-1595 BC) Iraqi museum, Babylonian Gallery [6944×9820]

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Robe and Axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, who was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1864. During his tenure he executed 514 people. (540x853)

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The skull of a 14 year-old girl believed to be a victim of cannibalism at the Jamestown colony in the winter of 1609. Butchery marks can be seen on forehead.[1024x1275]

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A Roman rock crystal die from the 1st-2nd century CE. Housed at The British Museum. (437x483)

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A 900-year-old church still standing in Wicklow, Ireland. (719x689)

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Khara-Khoto is an abandoned city in Inner Mongolia, China. Built in 1032, the city thrived under the rule of the Western Xia dynasty. It has been identified as the city of Etzina which appears in The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer who travelled through Asia between 1271-1295 [1080x708]

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An 11th century “ornamental shield” that was carved from an elk's antler, found in the funerary chapel of Louis the Pious in Metz, France. (2048x1536)

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A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France. The cave, which was discovered on September 30, 2000 by amateur speleologist Marc Delluc, contains over 150 Paleolithic artworks as well as several human remains [1182x1493]

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An American merchant with his daughter and dog. Woodblock print by Utagawa Sadahide. Japan, Edo period, 1861 [2070x2700]

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After she was publicly flogged and her daughters raped by Roman soldiers, Queen Boudica of the Iceni destroyed 3 entire cities. Londinium burned with such ferocity that a blackened scorch-layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon' [2080x2810]

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This ancient greek tombstone, adressing passersby in first person, describes the death of Aphrodisios, who died the most pathetic death because of his wife, a dirty adulteress and her secret lover, who threw me from the heights like a discus[1500x1125]

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Gold ring (circa 500A.D.) found between some boulders by a deer hunter in Sweden a few days ago [1440x900]

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Meet Abdel Kader Haidara, the man who risked his life to save almost 400,000 ancient manuscripts from Timbuktu from being destroyed by the jihadists. These manuscripts, which some date back to the 11th century, deal with myriad subjects such as medicine, astronomy, and sex [3072x4088]

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The capstone of the Pyramid of Amenemhat III, 1860 BC-1814 BC (4592X3448)

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A flintlock rifle with a twisted barrel and heart shaped bore from 1765, formerly owned by George IV, now part of the Royal Collection Trust [2000x1612]

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A skull with three crossbow bolt wounds from the Battle of Visby, Gotland, in 1361. Many of the dead were buried in their armor because of mass casualties and the hot weather led to fast decomposition.[1200x1087]

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A newly discovered statue of Hercules in Philippi in Greece dating from the 2nd c. CE. (1022x1554)

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Wonderful 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, thought depicting his fourth wife Caesonia. [1916x1384]

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The 3800-year-old Princess of Xiaohe discovered in China. She's one of the Tarim mummies who, because of their Caucasian body features, were thought to be migrants from West Asia, but a new research revealed that they were actually direct descendants of a local Ice Age population [1920x2150]

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One of the oldest known soccer balls, found in the rafters of a bedroom in Stirling Castle and dating from around the time of Mary Queen of Scots. Scotland, 16th century. (1280x1099)

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A 10,000-year-old petroglyph depicting a man penetrating a horse, from the Val Camonica in Italy [850x1472]

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The Tollund man is a 2400-year-old bog body and victim of human sacrifice from the Iron Age, found in Bjældskovdal in Denmark. His body was so well-preserved that even after 2400 years scientists were still able to take his fingerprints and determine what he had eaten last [1024x1391]

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The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire (Worn by soldier circa 1945). Made in 962 a.C. [828x1483].

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The skull of a viking man with filed teeth, found in a mass grave in Dorset. The purpose behind filed teeth remains unclear but some researchers believe that the teeth carvings were likely dyed (probably with red) to frighten opponents in battle or to show their status as a great fighter [1392x924]

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This small bronze purse (4.3x3.3 cm) was found with six gold coins still inside in the Celtic oppidum (settlement) at Manching, Germany. It was originally sealed with an organic material, presumably a leather strap. Ca. 200 BCE [900x969]

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The perfectly preserved Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's lost ship. 3km below the Weddell Sea. Found after 107 years. [1440 x 3168]

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An 18th century CE ivory dildo complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation and its own discreet cloth bag. The didlo was hidden in the seat of a Louis XV armchair found in a convent near Paris. Now housed at the Science Museum in London [720x1203]

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Full-body relic of Saint Hyacinth in the former Cistercian monastery Furstenfeld Abbey, Germany[800x600].

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Chaturbate: Come and play right now!

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Sculpture of Vaisravana, heavenly king of the north. Weapon missing. Japan, Kamakura period, around 1300 [1750x1520]

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