The Corinthian capital from the Temple of Hadrian at Cyzicus, in Turkey, is the largest capital known to date. It is 2.5 metres in height, 1.9 metres in diameter and 20 tons in weight. It was unearthed in 2013 [1536x2048]

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A 26000-year-old 8cm high male head carved of mammoth ivory, found in Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic [1280x720]

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Archaeologists Hagay Hamer and Oriya Amichay with one of the swords found in a cave on a cliff above the Dead Sea in Israel (Source in comment) [480x590]

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A demon who licks your toes if they hang out the bed at night – from an early-20th-century book of demons from Isfahan, in central Iran. (750×936)

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Geronimo’s Grave [3024x4032]

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Another amazing discovery was made in Pompeii. In one of the dug rooms of the house, an unopened cupboard was found, in which numerous dishes were found: glass plates, ceramic bowls and vases. Another room contained a table, a bed, and a chest. [1200x900]

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In Georgia, on the site of the former Roman fort (castellum) in Apsarus, excavations have been carried out since 2014. Recently, traces of an ancient vineyard have been discovered. [1200x787]

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Sailor made dice and box to store them in [450×458]

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Coppergate Helmet, one of the best preserved Anglo-Saxon helmets, dated AD 770-775. It was found in Coppergate, York in 1982. (1156X1920)

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The Pineapple, dome in Dunmore, Scotland. 1761-1776. [2701×4160].

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The giant two-handed sword that belonged to the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II, made from a sawfish snout, 1689 [558x882]

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Murud-Janjira is a 16th century fort, in India, that was ruled by Abyssinian Muslims called Siddi. Under them this fort remained unconquered till its merger in Indian Union in 1947. The Nizamshahis, Maratha, Portuguese, Dutch, French and even English could not subdue this fort [1076x1350]

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The 2000-year-old clothes of the Huldremose Woman, a bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten in Denmark. It consists of a checked woollen skirt, a checked woollen scarf and two skin capes. Now on display at the National Museum of Denmark [1265x1777]

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Large grotesque fireplaces at the 16th century Villa della Torre in Italy [758x1522]

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An Illustration of a longsword technique from the Codex Wallerstein, a 16th-century convolution of three 15th-century fechtbuch (combat manual) manuscripts, with a total of 221 pages. The codex is now housed at the Augsburg University library in Germany [736x597]

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This 16th century wedding bed from England was made for Sir John Radclyffe and Lady Anne Asshawe. (641x960)

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Two ceramic dog figurines. China, Six Dynasties, around 550 AD [1300x1170]

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Autumn cat, Depiction of cat loaf and autumn flowers by 변상벽(1730~1775). Korea, Josun era.[1920x2500]

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Mummy portrait of a girl from Roman Egypt, dated 120-150 A.D. Wax encaustic painting on sycamore wood.(475x750)

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Pair of 4,000-year-old ceramic pipes discovered in 2020. Pingliangtai, China, Longshan culture, 2200-2000 BC [1500x1170]

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At an antiquarian bookstore in Philadelphia, I came across this beautiful late 16th century edition of Reusner's Summorum Regum, with a beautiful blind-stamped hand painted portrait of August of Saxony to the front cover [1536x2048]

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The Hove amber cup (dated to c. 1750-1550 BCE) was 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 [928x857]

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Code of Hammurabi, Louvre Museum in Paris. [3024 x 4032]

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Left: figure of a high ranking Maya from late classic. Artist Joan Francesc Oliveras' rendition of a late classic Mayan lord, he wears a nasal prosthetic and has a deformed skull, induced cross-eyedness, facial scarification and piercings, filed teeth set with jewels and ear flares.[827x360]

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The Boxer at Rest is a Hellenistic Greek sculpture of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his caestus, a type of leather hand-wrap. 4th-1st century BC, now on display at the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome [2731x2048]

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The town of Palmanova, Italy, built as a star fort by the Venetian Republic in 1593. (1080X1350)

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Ad Deir (The Monastery) is a monumental building (47 m high and 48 m wide) carved out of rock in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. The Deir, which was probably carved in the mid-first century CE, is a spectacular example of Nabataean architecture [1080x1347]

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An amateur treasure hunter with a metal detector turned up a Medieval, gold ring that was set with a sapphire stone in Sherwood Forest—haunt of the legendary (or real) Robin Hood. Experts have examined the ring and believe it may date to the 14 th century. [1270x700]

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MS Harley 3244 is a medieval bestiary dated to around 1260 AD which contains the oldest recognizable image of a fully modern Western dragon.[640x710]

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Red hand and Mammoth, around 30,000 BP. Chauvet cave, France [1620x1080]

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Rose window, Sainte Chapelle, Paris, designed in 1485-98. One of the most remarkable glassworks of the Middle Ages and the most important designed in Paris at the time, its huge funding allowed the use of an unusual range of colors and of rare precious glasses, known as Venetian. [1920x1080] [OC]

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The Pyramid of Cestius is a Roman Era pyramid in Rome, Italy, built as a tomb between 18-12 BCE for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious corporation. The pyramid measures 29.6 m square at the base and stands 37 m high [800x532]

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Statue of Osiris on the seabed of the sunken city of Thonis-Herakleion. 7th to 2nd BC. (1280X808)

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Sword with a snake engraved along the spine. Japan, 16th century [3180x2449]

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A 5000-year-old Sumerian alabaster statuette of a priest-king, found inside a pottery vessel in the ancient city of Uruk in 1929/30. Now on display at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad [3419x1487]

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World's oldest trigonometric table. Australian mathematician cracks code of famous 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet. They were doing more accurate trigonometry 1500 years before the Greeks. [6000x6000].

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A Romanesque fresco depicting Saint Nicholas refusing his mother's milk. Late 11th century CE, Novalesa Abbey, Italy [1246x1632]

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Portus, Rome's Imperial Port, as it would have appeared in the past compared to today. The port was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia [705x888]

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Cabinet (1755-1765) [3000x4000]

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Gold Llama Figurine. Inca culture, Peru 1400-1532 A.D. [1071x1520].

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The Villa of Tiberius is a Roman villa complex in Sperlonga, located on the western coast of Italy. First constructed around 30-20 BCE near to a large sea opening or grotto, Emperor Tiberius expanded the site during the 1st century CE to serve as his own personal retreat [1886x1989]

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The skeleton of a 16th century soldier, complete with his sword, boots, belt and other items, was discovered last year during an underwater bridge inspection at the bottom of Lake Asveja in Lithuania [1920x1280]

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A selection of old Assyrian documents in the Yale Babylonian Collection [1906x1326]

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An old photo of the 4th century CE Byzantine Sea Walls of Thessaloniki, in Greece, taken in 1860. The walls were demolished as part of the Ottoman authorities' restructuring of Thessaloniki's urban fabric [2621x2008]

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Hookah reservoir made of white jade and inlaid with gold, ruby, and emeralds. Deccan, India, 17th-18th century [800x955]

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An Irish harp made by John Egan, 1820 (1576X2362)

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Ancient Egyptian record of work absences, 1250 BCE - The British Museum [600x343]

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A boy's dress with mother-of-pearl buttons. England, around 1865 [2900x3333]

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2,000-Year-Old Roman shoe found in a well (720x509)

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The oldest jewelry ever found has been discovered this year by archaeologists in Bizmoune Cave in Morocco. The jewelry is made of perforated seashells and dates to between 142000 and 150000 years ago [2000x1333]

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Interior of an underground tomb discovered in 2009. Shanxi, China, Jin dynasty, 1115–1234 AD [1600x1598]

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A Roman helmet found in the Rhine River, With the name of the soldier who wore it, L. Lucretius Celeris, inscribed inside. [1024 x 685]

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The Nihongo, one of the three great spears of japan, forged by Kanabou Masatsugu in the Muromachi period(1336-1573). The spear passed through the hands of leaders like the emperor Ogimachi and Oda Nobunaga and is now on display at the Fukuoka City Museum [600x1300]

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Ancient Greek rhyton (drinking vessel) in the shape of a donkey's head, Athens, 480-470 BCE [3000 x 2348]

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This perfectly preserved Roman glass bowl, around 1,800-1,900 years old, was unearthed last year at an archaeological dig in Nijmegen, the Netherlands [694x463]

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13th century door from St. Edward‘s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cotswolds, England. (1080X1350)

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A “sea monster” standing cup made in Northern Italy in the mid-16th Century using a nautilus shell engraved in China with dragons and mounted in silver. The base is said to be the direct cast of an eagle’s claw. (os) [3024 x 4032]

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A child’s leather shoe, c. 16th century. Found preserved in the mud of the River Thames [680x431]

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A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & a 17,000-year-old horse painting at the Lascaux cave in France [1564x1564]

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Unearthed marble head of a sculpture of Artemis, found in the in ancient Greek city of Alabanda (Later Antiochia of the Chrysaorians), dated around the fourth century BC, Minor Asia, Modern Turkey. [686 x 919]

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Dagger with gilded sheath and slot for two chopsticks, signed by Harumitsu. Japan, 16th century (blade) & 19th century (mountings) [900x1610]

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The medieval Eltz Castle located in Wierschem, Germany, has been owned and occupied by the same family for over 850 years, 33 generations to be exact [864x1080]

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Numerous traces of ancient snacks have been discovered under the Colosseum - figs, grapes, cherries, blackberries, walnuts and others. Bones of dogs, bears and large felines were also found. [1200x900]

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The Terrace of the Lions is a sacred avenue on the island of Delos dedicated to Apollo~ Mikonos, Greece [960x689]

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Egyptian mummified divine Apis bull, 300 BCE - 400 CE, displayed in the Smithsonian Museum. (1200x1600)

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Twenty barrel Venetian harquebus [2584x1454]

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A fragment of maille armor found in Northern Canada, dated from the 13th century. Currently held at the Canadian Museum of History [981 x 420]

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7000~8000 year old carving of a camel on a cliff in northern Saudi Arabia. (4569x3046)

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Cosmati Pavement - coronation floor in Westminster Abbey made by Italian craftsmen in 1268. It has been covered by carpets since the 1800s including for Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953. It is now uncovered and will be used for King Charles' coronation [976x732]

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Knife with blue glass handle and ivory scabbard, inlaid with gems. Turkey, Ottoman Empire, 18th-19th century [900x1230]

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Youhen Tenmoku Teabowl, one of three intact Jian wares in the world to exhibit this cosmos-like iridescent speckle pattern and the only one to have it on both sides. Made in Fujian, China during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), now a National Treasure of Japan (info in comments). [7361x8270]

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Unknown Purpose of Knobs Protruding From Precision Cut Inca Wall Peru [1600x1200]

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Hundreds of Roman gold coins discovered inside an amphora in northern Italy in 2018 (2048X1024)

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Ancient gold coins found in a jar in the ruins of a Roman theatre [747x1328]

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The Crooked House on Steep Hill in Lincoln, England, 15th century CE [736x920]

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The exceptional find of a Greek-Illyrian helmet, as well as numerous other valuable grave goods have been found during the archaeological excavations of graves from the fourth century BC in Zakotarac on the Peljesac peninsula, in southern Dalmatia, Croatia. [1288x859]

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Old photo of a married child couple in their wedding outfits. Korea, 1910. Taken in Seoul by E.G. Stillman [2400x3120]

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A stone statue (Balbal) with height up to 3 meters found in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan. (750x1000)

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The Orkney Hood, found in a peat bog in 1867, is the only complete item of fabric clothing to have survived from early medieval Scotland. 250-615 CE, now on display at the National Museum of Scotland [1578x2112]

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Monumental stone head. La Venta, Mexico, Olmec civilization, 850-750 BC [3500x2870]

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Gilded statue of thousand-armed Avalokitesvara. Vietnam, 1750-1850 [2304x3072]

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The impressive results when in the 1980's the Sistine Chapel's ceiling was cleaned and restored to remove centuries of grime, dirt and grease [599x700]

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The 307-year-old Church of the Transfiguration, located on Kizhi island in Russia, was built entirely of wood without using a single nail. The church has 22 domes and with a height of 37 meters, it is one of the tallest wooden buildings in Northern Europe [1242x2208]

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The 16th century Sesharaya mandapam, at the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in India, is an intricately carved hall built during the Nayaka rule period. It's famous for its 40 leaping horses with riders on their back, all carved out of monolithic pillars [1024x958]

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some bison paintings in the Cave of Altamira, Spain, which were made over a very long period between 35,000 ~ 15,000 BP. (3648X2432)

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Salvator Mundi [2930x3812], Leonardo DaVinci’s last discovered painting c. 1499-1510 depicts Christ with a cross and orb. Currently owned by Saudi prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS).

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An old photo taken by Max van Oppenheim of an ancient Roman bridge that spans the Wadi al Murr near Mosul, Iraq, in the 1920s [1226x885]

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Hochosterwitz Castle is considered one of Austria's most impressive medieval castles. Situated on a 172-metre high dolomite rock near Sankt Georgen am Langsee, the castle has been in the hands of the same family since 1571, and in 1586 it received today's shape and appearance [1080x1350]

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An intact hafted axe found under one of the structures that burnt down at the Must Farm site, England. 3000 BP. [900x600]

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Roman mosaic of a little mouse eating a nut; Vatican Museums. Dated back to reign of Hadrian 117-138 A.D. Made with an extremely arduous and precise method: opus vermiculatum, where the artist managed to introduce shading, which gives a beautiful effect of realism. [1199x999].

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The Frome Hoard, a large pot full of 52,503 Roman coins that was found in 2010 by a metal detector in Somerset, England, dating to the 4th century A.D. (1919x1568)

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Chand Baori, the largest and deepest stepwell in India. It consists of 3500 narrow steps over 13 stories and extends 30 m into the ground. The oldest parts of the stepwell date from the 8th century, while the upper stories with the columned arcade around it were built in the 18th century [642x916]

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A Fayum mummy portrait of a woman. From Egypt, 160–170 CE, now housed at the British Museum [461x880]

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The 3400-year-old Lateran Obelisk is the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, and it is also the tallest obelisk in Italy. It originally weighed 413 tonnes, but after collapsing and being re-erected 4 metres shorter, now weighs around 300 tonnes. Now located in Rome [2177x3621]

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King George V's Coronation Supertunica, made in 1911, also worn by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. [1427x2000]

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Condom, designed by Gabriele Falloppio (of Fallopian tube fame) 1564 was popular after the outbreak of syphilis. It was soaked in chemicals and tied on with a ribbon (1000 X 715)

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Tutankhamun's Gold funerary mask, Back. 1323 B.C. [3441×5161].

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An archaeologist holds the plaster cast body of a 4-year-old child killed by Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii in 79 AD (749X937)

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A man's outfit from Hungary, made of dark blue felt and brown lamb's fur. 1770-80 CE, now housed at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest [614x1024]

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Queen Elizabeth I's letter to King Eric XIV of Sweden, politely declining his offer of courtship and marriage, dated February 25th 1559. [3484x1244]

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1000 years ago some Viking craftsman lost all his equipment in the lake Mastermyr on the island of Gotland. In 1936 the wooden chest containing all the tools were found at the bottom of the former lake, which now had turned into a bog. Now on display at the Swedish History Museum [1322x1172]

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Phenomenal level of the Scythian tattoo art on the mummy of the “Siberian Ice Maiden”, 500 BC [802 x 959]

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Sunlight entering the inner sanctuary of Amon-Ra in the Temple of King Ramses III (r. 1186-1155 BCE) in Karnak, Egypt [562x800]

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Cast of a dog from Pompeii, 79 CE[1374x1404]

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Set of armourer's tools in a lacquered and gilded box. India or Iran, 18th century [1500x1180]

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A leather writing from a brother to his sister of the late Sassanid era (224–651 AD) was discovered in Hastijan, Iran. The content of the letter includes the brother's best-wishes to his sister, and requesting the return of the oil bottle that he had given to her. (Full translation below). [640×481]

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The Book of Epitomes is a catalogue summarising part of the library of around 15-20,000 books which Ferdinand Columbus assembled in the 16th century in an effort to create a library of every book in the world. The catalogue contains summaries of books that no longer exist [3000x4510]

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Executioner's iron mask. Europe, 1501-1700 [1170x1350]

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The 6m tall Lion of Chaeronea in Greece, erected in 338 BC. Under the monument, archaeologists unearthed a mass grave of 254 people, generally accepted to be the remains of the military unit known as The Sacred Band of Thebes who were wiped out completely by Philip II of Macedon [1094x1600]

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A pair of gold earrings, 1st century BC, India[1200x960]

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An old photo showing 2 of the 250 stone towers that still stand today in Tibet and Southwest China. Chinese and Tibetan scholars have surmised that they were erected between 200 and 1400 CE and used as storage, defensive posts, status symbols, and beacons [619x872]

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A 3770 year old Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian, containing the oldest known cooking recipes. The tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 meat stews and 4 vegetable stews. Now part of the collection of the Yale University Library [1365x2048]

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Detail of a bronze statue of Standing Parvati. Chola period, c.1200 CE, Tamil Nadu, India [320x541]

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Marble bust of the roman emperor Caracalla. 212 AD, now on display at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples [2464x1852]

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Mosaic from 4th Century CE from Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily in Ten Young Girls room shows young women doing various sports exercises + Reconstruction of the ancient Roman bikini on the basis of the mosaic. [638x680]

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Doll made of caribou skin, Nunatsiarmiut (Baffin Island Inuit), c.1914 [716 x 927]

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One of the fake heads used as a decoy during the 1962 escape of 3 prisoners from Alcatraz. Made with soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, and concrete dust [1278x1278]

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“Jews Out!” A Nazi-era German board game from 1936. Players took turns rolling dice and moving their “Jews” across the map toward “collection points” for deportation. If you manage to remove six Jews, you win. The SS criticized the game for trivializing the importance of anti-Semitism. [1904x1598]

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A backside view of the Great Sphinx of Giza that features its giant tail. Old Kingdom, c. 2558–2532 BC [1122x812]

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Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, started in the 12th cent. (1080x1233)

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A cargo of Chinese Ming porcelain, the earliest found under the Mediterranean Sea. (Source in comment) [1024x768]

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Woman of the Colonies inspired by French colonization of Algeria. Made in 1861 by Charles Cordier (1411 x 1864)

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the Uffington White Horse in England is a prehistoric hill figure possibly dating as far back as 1000 BC and was made of white chalk. (1908x1146)

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Nelson's Trafalgar Coat. Admiral Nelson was the architect of Britain's triumph at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, but paid for this victory with his life, dying aboard HMS Victory. The bullet hole from the French sharpshooter who hit Nelson is visible in the left shoulder. [1080x697] [OC]

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Wood statue of Kraaper, one of the most realistic in ancient Egypt. Representing a high official of the V dynasty 2435-2306 BC, old kingdom. Originally, the statue was covered in stucco and painted [2848x4796]

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Gauntlet of “Lion” armor of Henry II, king of France, 1550. [1300x1800]

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The Veiled Christ, a 1753 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino exhibited in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples. Due to its incredible detail, there was a legend that said that the statue was covered by real veil and slowly transformed over time into marble via chemical processes [1920x2268]

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