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The "Mask of Dresio". A Celtic iron age head from Ossola Valley, Northern Italy that was used as a fountain mask since possibly the Roman/Medieval era until recent years. It is now substituted with a replica on the fountain. Was originally either part of a statue or a sacred spring.
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A picture of the Minoan Palace of Minos in Crete, and a reconstruction of the palace as it may have appeared in its heyday. Built between 1900-1350 BCE, the palace was a complex of buildings which served as a combination religious and administrative centre rather than a royal residence
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The Unique 2nd century CE Roman sarcophagus of Simpelveld, now housed at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in the Netherlands. The sarcophagus, which was made for a woman, was carved entirely in high relief on the inside in order to look like a room in a luxurious home crammed with furniture
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The Double Venus, also known as the Beauty and the Beast, is a carved serpentine pendant with a female representation back to back with that of an animal or a chimera. The illustration was made by Libor Balák in collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences. Italy, 22,000-17,000 BCE
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Fragments of the "Stele of Vultures" commemorating victory of Eannatum, King of Lagash, over rival city-state Umma, c. 2460 BCE. Opposite the battle scene, the god Ningirsu and his mother Ninhursag are shown with a net full of casualties, his chariot approaching her on the lower register
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