Two 'extremely well preserved' arrows from the bronze age (1600 BC) unearthed by the thawing glaciers in Jotunheimen, Norway [1900x1094]

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Crystal spearhead found in a 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb in Spain. The tomb had the remains of 25 individuals, several of whom had consumed a poisonous substance (922x705)

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The Great God of Sefar painting in Sefar, Algeria. Round Head Period, 9550-7550 years old [1327x2000]

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Ark of Bukhara, a citadel dated 7th Century AD in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. [1800x1200]

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Grauballe Man, a bog body from the 3rd century B.C.. He was a man of around 30 and was killed by having his throat slit. He was found in Denmark in 1952. (1152X787)

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A hoard of Roman nails found at Inchtuthil, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, c87 AD. After the Roman army abandoned their forward fortification on the site they buried 875,400 iron nails on the site to prevent the enemy Caledonian tribes reforging the iron for weapons [2048x1405]

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Garima Gospels are 2 Gospel Books written in Ge’ez and held at the Abba Garima Monastery on a mountain over 2000 m high in Ethiopia. Garima 2, the earlier of the two, is believed to be the earliest surviving complete illuminated Christian manuscript and is radiocarbon dated to 390–570 [1919x2848]

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The painting from Pompeii of the baker Terentius Neo and his wife; 50-79 A.D. (1080x1344)

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Roman emperor Philippus the Arab kneeling in front of Persian King Shapur I, begging for peace, and the standing emperor represents Valerian who was taken captive by the Persian army in 260 AD, The triumph of Shapur I, Naqshe Rostam, Iran. (720×881)

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Before and after the excavation and restoration of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, built approximately 4000 years ago by King Ur-Nammu of the Neo-Sumerian Empire, in dedication to the Moon God, Nanna. [2048 x 2870]

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2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains[750x451]

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A book which was part of the evidence Henry VIII and his lawyers gathered in the 1530s to help win an annulment from Catherine of Aragon and ultimately to break with Rome, was found in 2015 on the shelves of the library at Lanhydrock, a National Trust mansion in Cornwall [3000x3796]

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Bronze Age lurs from Denmark. These horns are wind instruments cast in bronze 3,000 years ago. Usually found in pairs, 39 have been recovered from peat bogs, where it’s thought they were placed as votive offerings. Now housed at the National Museum of Denmark [1340x962]

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A Roman gold snake bracelet found on the arm of a woman who was killed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 CE near Pompeii, inscribed on the inside 'DOMINVS SVAE ANCILLAE' which means From a master to his slave girl. [720x549]

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An old Tower of Silence in Iran. Zoroastrians believe that earth is a holy element, and thus do not pollute it by burying. Instead, they place their dead bodies in a tower of silence, allowing vultures to consume the corpses. [8540 x 5693]

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An Elephant petroglyph found in Ratnagiri Maharastra India with more then 1000 others, dated to about 10,000 to 12,000 BCE. [1360 X 1020]

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Four lovers (mithuna) engaging in tantric sex, depicted on a relief at Kandariya Mahadeva Temple. Khajuraho, India, Chandela dynasty, around 1030 AD [1300x1275]

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The recently unearthed Vindelev treasure contains a medaillon with the oldest known reference to Wodan/Odin [940 x 627]

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Picture of Teddy Roosevelt’s diary entry from the day both his wife and mother died in 1884. Roosevelt marked the day in his diary with a big “X” noting, “The light has gone out of my life” [740x1120]

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The Egyptian-French archaeological mission of the European Institute of Underwater Archeology, working in Alexandria, discovered the wreck of a warship from the Ptolemaic period, and the remains of a Greek funerary area dating back to the beginning of the 4th century BCE [3331x4446]

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Stockings, 1830, cotton/silk [1349 x 1981]

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Ivory panel of a lioness attacking an African boy, made in the Phoenician style. Nimrud, Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Empire, 900-700 BC [1540x1570]

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A reconstruction of the Arch of Ctesiphon as it may have appeared in the 6th cent. compared to its remaining ruins today in Iraq. The arch, which was built either by Shapur I (242-272) or Kosrau I (531-579), is the largest single-span vaulted arch of unreinforced brickwork in the world [1155x1422]

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An old photo of a Maya ball court marker in the shape of a macaw's head, located in the municipality of La Union, Copan in western Honduras [1019x1012]

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Seal fur thong. 19th century. Inuit in East Greenland [1280 x 1561]

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Mourning clothes worn by count Magnus Brahe at the funeral of king Karl XIV Johan of Sweden in 1844. [1024x1536]

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Leonardo’s hidden masterpiece is likely concealed behind this wall, in the room where his feud with Michelangelo came to a head (OC, Info in comments) [6000x4000]

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The exquisitely preserved green damask dress in Burgundian style worn by Mary of Habsburg on her marriage to Louis II of Hungary in 1522, one of few dresses to survive from that century - Hungarian National Museum [600x866]

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Letter from the peers of England urging the Pope to annul Henry VIII's first marriage. The pope was struck by its peremptory tone, the nobles complaining of the delay in issuing an annulment and warning that a refusal would result in extreme measures being taken for the good of the kingdom [500x505]

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An entry from Teddy Roosevelt’s diary after his mother and wife died on the same day. (749x544)

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Dardanelles Gun is a Ottoman super-sized bombard built in 1464 by Munir Ali and modelled after the Orban bombard that was used for the Ottoman besiegers of Constantinople in 1453. In 1807, the gun was still in use against the failed Dardanelles Operation by the British Royal Navy [800x526]

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Roman paving with large phallic graffito carving, displayed in-situ under Zadar Archaeological Museum, Croatia. [2000x2000]

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The Wounded Angel (1903) by Hugo Simberg who refused to elaborate the meaning further. It was voted Finland's national painting in 2006 [1280x1030]

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Late 2nd-century statue of Glycon (a briefly influential snake cult within the Roman Empire) [1280x1931]

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The Surrender Flag of the Confederacy: a white linen dish towel, flown by Robert E. Lee's forces to surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Court House, 1865. Appomattox Court House was the last major battle of the American Civil War. [1828x3376]

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A 6.3 inch long wooden Roman sex toy that was found at Vindolanda fort in England, near Hadrian's Wall. (1280x720)

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In 1965, excavations in Mezhyrich, Ukraine, revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, which are about 15,000 years old, are some of the oldest shelters known to have been constructed by pre-historic man [1024x627]

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In 1998, a 436 year old heartbreaking Korean love letter written by a pregnant widow was found laying on the chest of her deceased husband, father of her unborn child, in an ancient tomb in Andong City, South Korea (Translation in the comments) [800x865]

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A medieval armor with a bird shaped helmet, on display at the Prague Castle [825x1240]

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Glass eye that had been set into a mourning ring on the death of its owner. Victorian. [500x422]

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Top hat worn by Abraham Lincoln the night he was shot. Now on display at the National Museum of American History [1024x1010]

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A 1800 year old octopus mosaic on the floor of a Roman bath. (2798X1873)

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Gold pendant shaped like a flying fish, once mistaken by conspiracy theorists as an ancient airplane. Colombia, Quimbaya culture, 500-1000 AD [1220x980]

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Ivory carving of a man catching chickens with a basket. Japan, Meiji period, around 1900 [1333x1616]

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A 2,300-year-old ancient Greek gold wreath worth £100,000, kept for decades in a tatty box of old newspapers under bed by owner who had no idea what it was. The wreath was put on sale at Duke’s of Dorchester auction house in 2016 [1300x2537]

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Tutankhamun's gold dagger which was found on his mummy. This is not the one made out of meteorite (2500x1700)

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19th century Palestinian woman's outfit, currently in the Met Museum. [1689x2000]

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A Viking-era woollen sock from Coppergate, York that's been preserved for over a 1000 years by York’s waterlogged soil. (1536x2048)

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Vintage photo of an Ainu family (1903) the Ainu were the indigenous people of Hokkaido and are essentially fully assimilated into Japanese culture with only a handful of Ainu speakers left [1280x1028]

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The Sacred City of Caral in peru. At almost 5000 years old, it's the oldest city in the Americas and predates even the great Pyramids of Egypt. It includes 6 pyramids, the largest of which measures 150x160 meters, 2 sunken ceremonial plazas, residential districts and an irrigation system [1200x1702]

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LIDAR reveals the layout of Angkor Wat and nearby structures underneath the jungle foliage. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 12th century AD [1469x2040]

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The Vimose coat is a 22-pound piece of chain armor thrown into a Danish bog as a victory offering after battle some 1,800 years ago. Made by hand from nearly 20,000 tiny iron rings, it is the oldest completely preserved chain mail from Northern Europe [831x1503]

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A street at the ancient city of Harappa in Pakistan. 2500-2000 BCE, Indus Valley Civilisation [1280x1719]

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Bed for smoking opium, with hardstone panels and mother-of-pearl inlays. China, Qing dynasty, 19th century [1370x1050]

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A limestone relief depicting the pharaoh Akhenaten, the queen Nefertiti and two princesses worshipping the Aten. 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353-1336 BCE, now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo [2988x4189]

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A 3rd century CE Roman horse armour, made up of about 2000 bronze scales. Found in Dura-Europos, Syria, and is now housed at the National Museum of Damascus. The bottom picture shows the armour shortly after it was discovered in 1932 [542x832]

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Cave di Cusa was an ancient stone quarry in Sicily, that was the source of stone used to build the temples in the ancient Greek city Selinunte. This site was quarried beginning in the 6th century BC until it was abandoned in 409 BC when the city was captured by the Carthaginians [1599x2153]

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The 2000-year-old clothes of the 'Huldremose Woman', a body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten, Denmark. It consists of a checked woollen skirt and scarf, with two skin capes. On display at the National Museum of Denmark. (1080x1350)

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Sunghir 1, 30,500-year-old burial of an adult male, found in Russia in the 1960s, covered with 3000 mammoth ivory beads, 12 pierced fox canines and 25 mammoth ivory arm bands, with his body covered in red ochre pigment. [3035x2278].

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Ivory carving of a skull and coiled snake with carnelian eyes. Japan, Edo period, 1860 [800x800]

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Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century) [1680 × 1365]

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About 7000 years ago, an ageing man in his 60s was buried at Skateholm in Sweden. Next to him, face to face, lays a child of 4-5 years who was buried later and was sprinkled with red ochre. On the child’s chest lay jewelry made of bear teeth and pieces of amber [900x1510]

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One of 4 golden hats found throughout Germany (3) and France (1). Nearly 3500 years old [786×1097]

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A gold bar with mint marks, recovered from the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha which sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622 [1200x1600]

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Roman glass jug with a smaller glass jug inside ~ a so called joke jar that shows the skill of the glassmaker. Probably made in workshop in Cologne, found in burial in Stein am Rhein, #Switzerland, 4th c. AD. [800x1028]

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A 600-year-old medieval hat from Lappvattnet. The hat, which is made of sheep's wool, was preserved in a bog. Now housed at the Vasterbottens museum in Sweden [619x587]

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The Rape of Proserpina is a large Baroque marble sculptural group by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622. Bernini was only 23 years old at its completion. Now on display at the Galleria Borghese in Rome [1242x1215]

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The Bison Licking Insect Bite is a carved and engraved fragment of a spear-thrower made of reindeer antler, depicting the now extinct steppe bison. It was created sometime between 20,000 and 12,000 ago and was found at Abri de la Madeleine in France [3222x4382]

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The Nemi ships, built almost 2000 years ago by emperor Caligula, discovered in 1929 and burned by the Nazis is 1944. [1600x1200]

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Roman amphitheatre in Verona (north-east Italy) was built in 30 CE, outside the ancient city walls. The facility could accommodate up to 30,000 people and is an example of a beautifully preserved Roman monument. [524x705]

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An aerial photo of the Sasanian circular city of Gor, in Iran, and a reconstruction of the city as it may have appeared in its heyday. Gor was the new capital city of Ardashir I (180-242 CE), the founder of the Sasanian Empire, and had a perfect circular plan of 1,950 m diameter [1015x1775]

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Leon Trotsky's bookshelf while living in exile in Mexico City [2048 x 1408].

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These are the 16th century Old Wellington Inn and 18th century Sinclair's Oyster Rooms in Manchester. Here they're pictured in 1971 when they were underpinned and raised to fit the new street level. They were later moved as Shambles Square (pictured in the bottom) was developed in 1999 [1080x1999]

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Tutankhamun's Meteoritic Dagger (1080 x 1080)

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Memento Mori mosaic recovered from the doomed city of Pompeii, 30 BC - 14 AD. As the Wheel of Fortune turns, it can make the rich poor and the poor rich, with death never far and life hanging by a thread: when it breaks, the soul (the butterfly) flies off. And thus are all made equal... [1080x1080]

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Nubian pyramids in Sudan, built from the 700s BC onwards, not as well known as Egypt's pyramids but still amazing (1356x668)

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One of the first photos taken of Tutankhamun's tomb when it was opened. (1600X1200)

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The oldest undisputed depiction of a human being, the Venus of Holhe Fels, made over 40,000 years ago (3024x4032)

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500-year-old Vistula punt found in a pond in Czersk, Poland in 2009. It was 98 ft long and used for transporting grain. The punt was excavated in 2018 and is now being conserved in National Museum of Archaeology. [2048x1412]

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In 2012, a postmaster’s trunk containing 2600 undelivered letters sent from all over Europe to the Hague between 1689-1706, was rediscovered in a Museum in the Netherlands. 600 of these letters are still unopened, and now a team of scholars are using X-rays to virtually unfold them [2191x3622]

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19th century bed, Qing Dynasty (1638 to 1912 CE), China. Currently in the Jubilee Museum, Brussels. [800×884]

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The 120 Days of Sodom is a French unfinished novel, written by Marquis de Sade in 1785, which details the depraved behaviour of 4 wealthy male libertines who rape, torture and finally murder their victims in a remote medieval castle, in order to experience extreme sexual gratification [3040x4638]

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In 1871, at the age of 10, Florence Irene Ford died of yellow fever. Because during her life Florence was terrified of storms, her mother asked that her daughter’s coffin be fitted with a small window, with stairs leading down to the casket so she could comfort her during storms [433x853]

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A statue of Anubis in Tut Ankh Amun's tomb, taken during Carter expedition (1922) [976x1100]

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Roman chariot unearthed 'almost intact' near Pompeii [768x512]

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Discovered today: A Roman mosaic in London that was once the floor of a dining room called a triclinium. (1848X1347)

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a female Sumerian statue found at the Abu Temple in Tell Asmar from c. 2700 BCE. (600X865)

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A 17th century feathered cape created by the Tupinamba people of Brazil, now housed at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Only 11 Tupinamba feather capes from the 16th and 17th centuries exist today, and most, unlike this one, have suffered significant physical damage over time [788x1024]

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French archeologist Joseph Hackin exploring The Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan. (977X1400)

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The Rok Runestone. Estimated to have been carved in the early 9th century. It is considered the first piece of written Swedish literature. (800x1259)

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Well-preserved Roman leather shoe that was discovered in London and dates from 75-125 CE. The artifact is in the Museum of London. [1200x900]

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The Kiss, a 12,000-year-old rock painting at Pedra Furada in Brazil [640x428]

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Ancient Greek helmets on display at the Altes Museum in Berlin [1624x968]

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Silk stockings decorated with winding silver snake, France, 1900. [3264x3264]

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Gold glass medallion portrait from the late roman empire(3rd-4th century AD), depicting a family from Alexandria[1407x1438]

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Aerial photo of the Roman city of Thamugadi in Algeria. (2334X1692)

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An 8,000-year-old marble figurine of a voluptuous woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo [1200x695]

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2nd Century Palmyra Family funerary Roman relief; Palmyra Syria. Shown by archaeologist Khaled Al Asaad, beheaded by ISIS after refusing to disclose the location of ancient artifacts, despite a month of torture. [2916x1945].

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A black leather book box from Italy. Ca. 1465-1485 CE, now housed at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan [2286x2500]

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A 3,200-year-old bronze sword belonging to the Hittite King Tudhaliya, found during road work in 1991 in Turkey. The sword has a cuneiform inscription that says When the Great King Tudhaliya razed the land of Assuwa, he offered this sword as a vow to his Lord, the god of storm [1515x2998]

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Chestnut leaf with Quranic verse inscribed in gold calligraphy. Turkey, 19th century [1770x1560]

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Beautiful portrait of a woman from the 2nd century CE from Roman Egypt. The painting was made on wood and placed on an Egyptian mummy. [1200x2281]

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The dwarf Djeho depicted in life size on the lid of his granite sarcophagus. He was 120 cm tall. Hieroglyphic inscriptions indicate that he belonged to the household of a high official. 346-345 BC. (720X960)

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One of the crowns of the kingdom of Ethiopia, the only african state to have not been colonised by Europeans, 18 century [976x1400]

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599 silver Roman coins from the 2nd cent that was found buried in a cooking pot near Llanvaches, Wales. (4096x3072)

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A 16th century gold locket worth 2.5 million pounds that was discovered in the UK in 2010, by a 3 year old boy playing with his father's metal detector. (1000X1461)

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Recently discovered 2000-year old male statue head found at the site of Aizanoi in Turkey, along with fragments of other sculptures. Based on the size of the head, the full statue was probably 3 meter high. Who the statue represents is unclear. (1868x1536)

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The Falling Man Petroglyph is an image of a man that appears to be falling, located on a cliff wall at Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada [930x768]

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Close-up of the 4500-year-old statue of Kaaper, an ancient Egyptian scribe and priest who lived between the late 4th Dynasty-early 5th Dynasty. The statue is made of sycamore wood and the eyes were made using rock crystal and small copper plates. Egyptian Museum, Cairo [2099x2799]

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A child's leather boots. Mongolia, 1800-1825 [900x970]

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2,000-year-old glass Roman beaker found intact by London mudlarker [843x1124]

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Spear from Viking age; with silver socket bearing runic inscriptions [iron, silver]. Gotland, Sweden, 800 – 1100 CE. Swedish History Museum [2144 x 1624]

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Chalice from the Middle Ages 1137-1140 the stone cup was carved from a block of the semiprecious stone sardonyx in the ancient Greco-Roman world, probably in Alexandria, Egypt, about 100 B.C. (3024x4032)

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1525: Samurai helmet made by the famous Japanese metalsmith Myochin Nobuie, (700x875)

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A detail from an illuminated manuscript depicting a medieval monk seducing a nun, who becomes pregnant and has an illegitimate baby. She then disposes of the baby in the privy (toilet). From the Miracles de Notre Dame, 71 A 24, now housed at the Royal Library of the Netherlands [610x430]

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Aquamarine (492-carat) on Gold snakes. From Habsburg Imperial Treasury (1800 CE) Dimensions - (6×7.4×5 cm) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Hofburg Palace, Vienna ~ Austria [1016x1192]

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Gold posey ring inscribed “THINK WEL OF ME”, English, 1500's, The British Museum. (600x600)

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The Kiss of Death is a marble sculpture made in 1930 and found in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. It depicts death, in the form of a winged skeleton, planting a kiss on the forehead of a young man [1341x2000]

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The 3270-year-old Hove amber cup discovered in a great round barrow mound that was crudely excavated in 1856 in Hove, England. The cup is made from a single piece of amber from northern Europe, suggesting trade links between England and the Baltic. Hove Museum and Art Gallery [928x857]

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The photo shows Roman pedestrian crossings in Pompeii – stone blocks arranged across the street. These are the prototypes of today’s “zebra crossing”. [800x633]

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A 4500 year old Egyptian tunic in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. (720x897)

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One of the four surviving Aztec feather shields, ca. 1500. Nearly 26,000 feathers were required to decorate such a shield. The shield incorporates feathers from blue cotinga, scarlet macaw, yellow oriole and roseate spoonbill, none of which were found where the Aztecs lived. [879x510]

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One of Stalin’s pipes, depicting him and FDR playing chess. It was given to him in 1945 by the visiting US chess team [1280 X 851]

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4th century CE Roman amber pins, found in 2020 at the feet of an individual who was buried in a large sarcophagus at a necropolis in the French city of Autun [3046x2672]

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Viking-era canal built to give longships access to a sheltered loch on the Isle of Skye [2048x1536]

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Carving of a ghost nursing her child. Japan, around 1850. [1500x2020]

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The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over 300 petrospheres, made between 600 and 1500 CE, that are commonly attributed to the extinct Diquis culture. The spheres range in size from a few centimetres to over 2 metres in diameter, and weigh up to 15 tons [2048x3067]

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Small sculpture of death with a bow made in 1520 Germany [720x688]

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The oldest working light bulb in the world, centennial light, burning since 1901. Fire station 6, Livermore, CA. [282x376].

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