Mirror Reflection by Shoebill

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Medieval bone die, marked with values as ‘circle and dot’. (Source in comment) [1000x790]

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Cookware from Pompeii [550x733]

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Jack Daniel's Bicykle, Stickney Customs - Designed and built by Carter Stickney for William S. Reeves [868x477]

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Sword and scabbard, ca. 7th century A.D. Iran. Sasanian. [534x2049]

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5000 year old water system discovered in western Iran [400x600] (Source in a comment)

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Neolithic Sickle [2560X1920]

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Meeting at waterhole [1280x800]

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Lur Horns were Nordic instruments used to create a cool atmosphere at religious rituals 1200-700 BC [1000x1000]

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Row after row of silver bricks lie stacked aboard the sunken S.S. Gairsoppa, torpedoed in the North Atlantic by a Nazi U-boat in 1941. World War II [1920x1440]

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Biskupin is the most famous archeological site in Poland and one of the best sites in Europe. The site was reconstructed and serves as a life-size model of Iron Age fortified settlement. The site was probably established before 700 BC. [3510x2340]

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Gold ring, 4th century B.C. Celtic - France [1626x1613]

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Warning

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A look into the eye of an Ophthalmosaurus - find this skeleton on display in Hintze Hall, Natural History Museum - London [1200x959]

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A rare 16th century gold sundial and compass ring, possibly German, circa 1570 The hinged oval bezel designed as a seal and engraved with a coat of arms, opening to reveal a sundial and compass, on a plain gold hoop, dimensions of bezel 1.8x2.0cm [736x840]

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Fes, Morocco

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This George Morse firearm, patented in 1858, is included in the exhibition Confederate Odyssey: The George W. Wray Collection at Atlanta History Center. [639x453]

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Spoon Case. Date: 15th C. [750x438]

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A Thai navy sailor collects Hawksbill turtles for their release back to the sea at the Sea Turtle Conservation Center of the Royal Thai Navy in Sattahip, Chonburi province in Thailand.

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The world’s oldest condom, dating back to 1640, has gone on display at a museum in Austria. [1181x1181]

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Jan Szczepanik and Kazimierz Zeglen during the test of the first bulletproof vest. The authors of the project were so sure of their invention that during the show in 1901, Szczepanik shot his servant from just three steps away.

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Parade Helmet, Agris, France. 350 BC, with stylistic borrowings from around the Mediterranean. [2376x3033]

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Challenge Poznan 2017 My first 70.3 Something beautiful I did it!

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This is the real-life inspiration for the bird in the movie The Maltese Falcon. The Kniphausen Hawk, a ceremonial pouring vessel made in 1697 for George William von Kniphausen, Count of the Holy Roman Empire. The real vessel is currently owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire [672X841]

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Silver inlaid axehead from the Mammen grave in Denmark (ca. 970 AD). [5907X3543]

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Celtic dagger and sheath made of iron and bronze, found in the grave of a celtic prince in Hochdorf, Germany aka the man with the golden shoes, the Hochdorf prince. Some corals as decoration are on the hilt and on the sheath. The dagger has a length of around 42 cm [716x2277]

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Viking Silver Elfshot Magic Amulet, 9th-10th century AD [836x854]

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Cross-section drawing of a Rescue Helicopter. [1451x1021]

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Narwhals

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Three bees wax candles found at the Alamannic gravyard of Oberflacht, Seitingen-Oberflacht, Kreis Tuttlingen, Germany. Dating to 6th or beginning 7th century A.D. They are the oldest survived bees wax candles north of the Alps [736x1104]

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F-16, F-15C and F-15E Flying over Burning Oil Wells During Desert Storm

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Real Tudor English Country House, dating back to the 12th century. Haddon Hall, Derbyshire [683x1024]

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4800-Year-Old Artificial Eyeball Discovered in Burnt City

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Roman surgical instruments found at Pompeii [732x597]

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Greek Gold Heracles Knot Bracelet, C. 300 BC. [1426x1024]

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A round book, bound c.1590 as a gift to the Prince and Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn [446x454]

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This 1,000 lb. bomb, which is on display in the Museum's Legend, Memory and the Great War in the Air Gallery is of the type dropped on the captured German battleship Ostfriesland on July 21, 1921. [663X1000]

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Ksiaz Castle, the third largest castle in Poland, is located on a majestic rock cliff by the side of the Pelcznica River [2000x3008]

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Oval gem with the head of Sirius (the Dog Star), Roman, Republican or Early Imperial Period, 1st century B.C. [736x913]

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Ceremonial Trowel given to Joseph Chamberlain, 1874 (more info in comment) [750x1000]

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Extremely Rare Early 19th-century Wooden Doll with Eight-Leg Walking Body [477x1000]

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Bust of Charlemagne as illustrated on page 99 of the Usborne Book of World History, used in Sonlight Core C. [736X1073]

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Narwhals [1900x1200]

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Tree phone

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Byzantine sardonyx vase, 10th-11th century CE [514x754]

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Mechanical Galleon clock, Augsburg, around 1585 AD [3264x2448]

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A clock, fitted with a flintlock to light a candle, c.1550. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg [2560x1712]

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A knife and a fork with flintlock pistol,Germany 18th century. [532x800]

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Viking rope, Birka Stockholm Sweden [720x850]

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Rotterdam's city centre after the bombing in May 1940 [3000x2269]

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Etruscan Silver panels with repousse reliefs overlaid with electrum foil, Etruscan artwork, 540–520 BC. Found in 1812 in a tomb at Castel San Marino, near Perugia [500x454]

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Trees really can grow anywhere

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A small English statue from ca. 1350-1450. Some people have guessed that, because of the cross on the shield, the man depicted may be Saint George. [600X600]

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The siege gun Mons Meg described in a 17thC document as the great iron murderer called Muckle-Meg (muckle being Scots for 'big') [1280x924]

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Stern of museum ship Vasa, salvaged from the bottom of the sea just outside Stockholm city in 1961 after 333 years. Put together and displayed in a fantastic museum at Djurgarden. It was the pride of the Swedish war fleet and sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. [533x800]

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Hopi Rock Art Petroglyphs on Navajo Reservation in Arizona [736x1104]

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Cat and Moon

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Western Han Dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD) bronze rhinoceros with gold and silver inlay. Beijing National Museum [600x443]

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War Photographer

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Biskupin is the most famous archeological site in Poland and one of the best sites in Europe. The site was reconstructed and serves as a life-size model of Iron Age fortified settlement. The site was probably established before 700 BC. [3510x2340]

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Castel del Monte is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy [3456x5184]

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Viking Knife - Silver and iron. The handle of the knife is decorated with granulated triangles. Grave find, Bjorko, Adelso, Uppland - Sweden [945x628]

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Platypus [2100X1394]

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5th Legion Roman Gold Officer’s Ring, 2nd-3rd Century AD. The ring is a tapered shank with rectangular panel. Nielloed inscription “LEG V MAC” between two swastikas on top. [1111x751]

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Holuhraun Volcano, Iceland [1247X831]

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Leather Shoe from the Hallstatt culture, 800–400 B. C. Museum Hallstatt, Austria [2048x1536]

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Titanoboa Skeleton [1024x768]

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Ancient Amulet with Curious Palindrome Inscription. The amulet contains a Greek inscription, 59 letters long, which reads the same backwards as it does forwards, a feature known as a palindrome. (Source in comment)[2431x2003]

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A figure of a bound prisoner dating to the late 1st century BC, preserving an inscription which calls him the ‘King of the Nubians’, also demonstrates how the Kushites typically represented their defeated enemies during this period. [6260x4572]

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Shaft-hole axehead excavated from Iran, Luristan, ca 1350-1000 B.C. [637x1080]

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Narwhals

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Reconstruction of Ancient Roman folding multi-tool device. The tool features a knife, a spoon, a three-tined fork, a spike, a spatula, and a small pick. [864x576]

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Diamondhead Crater, Oahu - Hawaii

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Late-medieval jack, National Museum of Scotland collection: A leather jacket, reinforced for self-protection by metal plates, of the kind that would have been worn by Border Reivers in the 16th century [1801x2557]

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Greco-Roman Bronze Chimera’s Foot, 2nd Century BC /AD [1106x1584]

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The Dardanelles Gun - Currently in the Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson, Portsmouth, England. [1600x1200]

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Kimsooja’s Room of Rainbows

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Dead Flower

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Two artform figures appear to inspect the machine upon which they were created

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300 year old wine cellar in Germany [3888x2592]

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Chalkidian Helmet and Greaves, 4th-5th century BC [1869x2066]

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Upper part of caduceus, the staff of Hermes - early 5th century B.C. Greek [632x800]

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Purple Roman glass bottle. Period:Roman period, 1st century AD. [1024x1467]

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Tunic, sword and belt of Fernando de la Cerda,13th Century. Found in the Royal Monastery of Las Huelgas, in Burgos, Spain [736x976]

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Journey down and through the reconstruction of ancient Coppergate, on the very spot where a Viking village once stood! A glass floor reveals the site of the archaeological dig, with artefacts from the excavation displayed right underneath your feet. JORVIK Viking Centre

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Dagger, Islamic. Artist from Turkey during the period of 1732-1733. Steel decorated with gold, rubies (or spinels) and beryls. [575x1258]

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Army Flamethrowers Show [7569x5999]

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A circa-1750 bagpipe at the Hague Museum [500x603]

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This is a pendant jewel, which would have hung from a chain. It is a powerful example of a type of jewellery known as memento mori (roughly translated from the Latin as 'Remember you must die'). Enamelled gold, scrollwork. Made 1540-1550.

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Iceberg Camping

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Cow shoes used by moonshiners during Prohibition to disguise their footprints, circa 1922. [887x671]

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A Mughal gem-set jade-hilted koftgari steel Dagger, Northern India, 19th Century [362x1282]

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Gold bracelet with garnet, Greek-Hellenistic period, 3rd-to-2nd century B.C. [436x650]

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Etruscan gold fibula, detail from the Regolini Galassi Tomb C.500BCE [500x667]

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Bike Table Light [554x554]

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Hawaiian feather helmet or mahiole Late 1700s AD. [2377x2191]

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The Jockey of Artemision is a large Hellenistic bronze statue of a young boy riding a horse, dated to around 150-146 BC. It is a rare surviving original bronze statue from Ancient Greece and a rare example in Greek sculpture of a racehorse. [1600x1200]

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I did it! First Marathon finished in 4:23:40! Poznan - Poland

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Pyramids at night [3264x1764]

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Model of ancient Rome [1024X768]

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Lemurs

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Weapons and armour from Great Migration and Middle Ages period - swords, daggers, helmets, breast armours, arrows (for bow and crossbow) and spears, maces, axes, spurs, shield fragments... 4th-15th centuries, found in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. Collection of Belgrade City Museum [600x898]

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Golden ring of Medieval Serbian queen Theodora, wife of king Stefan Uros III Decanski, 14th century. Ring is in the collection of National museum of Serbia in Belgrade [721x595]

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An M3 Stuart light tank lies at the same place where it was disabled by Japanese forces in 1943, Kohinggo Island, Solomons. [962x719]

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Old New York (1888) - Central Park [720x484]

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Mont-Saint-Michel, France - ca 1900 [1133x778]

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Drinking Horn, the possible origin of Prague - 1400 [723x600]

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The sea is full of treasures

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Excavation of the remains of the Roman Aqueduct from 1st century AD, at Viminacium, Roman fortified town and legionaries camp in present-day eastern Serbia, near Kostolac. [960x555]

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Roman children shoes, about 2000 years old - Palmyra (Syria)

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Entering the Demon s Mouth

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king of the field

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Clips Collections

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This microscope, made by Christopher Cock in London in 1665, was used by Robert Hooke of the Royal Society. Hooke is the author of “Micrographia” and was the first person to apply the word “cell” to microscopic structures [638X960]

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Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe is a chapel in Aiguilhe, near Le Puy-en-Velay, France, built in 962 on a volcanic formation 85 metres (279 ft) high. The chapel is reached by 268 steps carved into the rock [1280X1881]

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Reconstructed excavated cog (ship) from 1380 at Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum [1469x984]

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Noordelijke Witwangdwergooruil, Nothern White-Faced Owl [800x800]

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Pair of Anglo-Indian ivory veneered armchairs. Vizagapatam (India), first half 19th century [2000x2000]

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A small knife with a wooden handle, probably from the Iron Age, was one of the treasures found by archaeologists at the glacier Lendbreen in Oppland County, Norway during the 2014 summer season. (Photo: Oppland County) [940X627]

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Gold Ram's-head earring Nubian, Napatan Period, found in Meroe, Nubia, Sudan. [760X1024]

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Hovenring Bridge, Rzeszow - Poland [ 800x534]

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Chateau de Maintenon, Region Centre, France [1636x2827]

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Metal Rose

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Scientists Unearth Perfectly Preserved 3,000-Year-Old Wooden Wheel In ‘British Pompeii’ [974x650]

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Breastplate Giovanni Paolo Negroli (Italian, Milan, ca. 1513–1569)

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Alexander Vershinin, glass depicting dog chasing a rabbit in a landscape with dacha and hut, glass, enamel, moss, straw, paper, natural materials, 1800-1810, Metropolitan Museum of Art [534x774]

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Windows in the choir of the Basilica of Saint Denis, one of the earliest uses of extensive areas of glass. (early 13th-century architecture with restored glass of the 19th-century) [4000x3000]

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Barrel-Maker’s Knife, 1702 - Germany [610x1706]

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Nautilus shell cut in half. The chambers are clearly visible and arranged in a logarithmic spiral.

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Croatia [1680x1050]

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Flooding in Paris, France c.1910. [1200x753]

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Palenque Museum near the ruins of Palenque display the antiquities discovered in the ruins. In the picture Pakal jade head [428x649]

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[OS] Axe Head with Iron Blade, 9th-7th century BC. Found in Luristran, Iran. The Walters Art Museum - Along the side of this axe head, a feline creature reclines, while the blade emerges from the roaring mouth of another [2660x1800]

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The Erdapfel is a terrestrial globe produced by Martin Behaim from 1490–1492. The Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. It is constructed of a laminated linen ball in two halves, reinforced with wood and overlaid with a map painted by Georg Glockendon.

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13th century bowl with central fish motif from Iran [600X595]

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Medieval Tintagel Castle ruins - Cornwall, England

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Images of the Hetzer pulled from the Gulf of Gdansk - Poland in 2007 [640x480]

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Roman beaker fragment, painted glass, Mid-Imperial ca. 2nd century A.D [450X503]

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A 6,000 year old ceramic cooking vessel and a wooden spoon found at Amose on Zealand in Denmark. [479x550]

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Sword found at Stafylos, on the island of Skopelos (Sporades Islands off the coast of Thessaly) from the 16th century BC [638x900]

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This picture was taken in 1864, during the Civil War. It shows a fortified bridge over the Cumberland river near Nashville, Tennessee. [650x633]

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Pompeii in 19th Century - A paper, wood and plaster scale model of Pompeii by the archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli between 1861 and 1879.

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Michał Juras ollie, Wrocław - Poland. Foto: Kuba Baczkowski [772x1158]

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Gold drinking cup. From Ur, southern Iraq. About 2600-2400 BC. [600x600]

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View of the Acropolis from the temple of Jupiter Olympus in Athens. Anonymous, c. 1895 - c. 1915, Rijksmuseum collection. [960x876]

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Martin-Gullaume Biennais (1764-1843) - Napoleon's Dress Sword. Gold, Enamel, Steel and Tortoiseshell. Circa 1764. National Museum. Stockholm, Sweden.[436x1024]

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A confraternity dagger. Holland, early 19th century. [515x1040]

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