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Detail of woman with injured foot . Adorants Fresco , Cycladian-Minoan civilization, c. 1600 bC. Akrotiri, island of Thera, now Santorini, Greece. This figure decorated a wall in a three-story stone building on a paved street.

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Detail of woman with injured foot . Adorants Fresco , Cycladian-Minoan civilization, c. 1600 bC. Akrotiri, island of Thera, now Santorini, Greece. This figure decorated a wall in a three-story stone building on a paved street.

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Veiled girl from the "Adorants Fresco" a wall painting with three women recovered from a house at Akrotiri, a Theran Bronze Age city buried in ash by the eruption of the volcano that was the island of Thera itself. Cycladian-Minoan civilization, 16th century BC. Santorini, Greece...

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Veiled girl from the "Adorants Fresco" a wall painting with three women recovered from a house at Akrotiri, a Theran Bronze Age city buried in ash by the eruption of the volcano that was the island of Thera itself. Cycladian-Minoan civilization, 16th century BC. Santorini, Greece...

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Two Theran young women collecting Saffron, part of the Goddess of Nature Fresco, Cycladian-Minoan civilization, 16th century BC. Akrotiri, island of Thera , Greece. The short hair of the girl on the left and the shaved hairstyle of the other depict two young girls...

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Two Theran young women collecting Saffron, part of the Goddess of Nature Fresco, Cycladian-Minoan civilization, 16th century BC. Akrotiri, island of Thera , Greece. The short hair of the girl on the left and the shaved hairstyle of the other depict two young girls...

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Goddess of Nature , Akrotiri, Thera. Cycladian-Minoan civilization, 3,600 yo. Santorini, Greece. Original vs restored . Notice the clothing and the necklaces, one of ducks, another of dragonflies. a third...

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Goddess of Nature , Akrotiri, Thera. Cycladian-Minoan civilization, 3,600 yo. Santorini, Greece. Original vs restored . Notice the clothing and the necklaces, one of ducks, another of dragonflies. a third...

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“Ship procession fresco from the Room 5 of the Wets House in Akrotiri”

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“Ship procession fresco from the Room 5 of the Wets House in Akrotiri”

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The Boxers Fresco, from Akrotiri, Thera , Minoan Civilization, 16th Century BC, National Archaeological Museum of Athens

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The Boxers Fresco, from Akrotiri, Thera , Minoan Civilization, 16th Century BC, National Archaeological Museum of Athens

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Spring Fresco, Akrotiri, Thera , Greece, 1600 BC. The fresco depicts the brightly colored rocky landscape of the volcanic island dotted with blossoming lilies and flying swallows. It might be, some say, the first time an artist created art from the surrounding landscape...

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Spring Fresco, Akrotiri, Thera , Greece, 1600 BC. The fresco depicts the brightly colored rocky landscape of the volcanic island dotted with blossoming lilies and flying swallows. It might be, some say, the first time an artist created art from the surrounding landscape...

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“Depiction of a Minoan city on the Ship Fresco in Room 5 on the upper floor of the West House”

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“Depiction of a Minoan city on the Ship Fresco in Room 5 on the upper floor of the West House”

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The remains of a prehistoric house from the bronze age settlement of Akrotiri in Santorini, Greece. The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BCE and buried in volcanic ash

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The remains of a prehistoric house from the bronze age settlement of Akrotiri in Santorini, Greece. The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BCE and buried in volcanic ash

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A neolithic figurine depicting a goddess seated on a leopard, and holding a small leopard on her chest. Discovered in a house in Hacılar in Turkey, 5600 BCE, now housed at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara

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A neolithic figurine depicting a goddess seated on a leopard, and holding a small leopard on her chest. Discovered in a house in Hacılar in Turkey, 5600 BCE, now housed at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara

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Minoan Bull Leaping Fresco, Crete, 1650 BC. This colorful painting is the most completely restored stucco panel from Knossos Palace. Bull-leaping is considered a key ritual in Minoan religion. As in other Mediterranean civilizations, bulls were venerated and worshiped...

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Minoan Bull Leaping Fresco, Crete, 1650 BC. This colorful painting is the most completely restored stucco panel from Knossos Palace. Bull-leaping is considered a key ritual in Minoan religion. As in other Mediterranean civilizations, bulls were venerated and worshiped...

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Detail of one long side of Hagia Triada Sarcophagus, a Minoan limestone sarcophagus from c. 1400 BC, 54" long, excavated from a tomb at Hagia Triada, Crete. Coated in plaster and painted in fresco on all faces, It is the only limestone sarcophagus of its era discovered to date...

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Detail of one long side of Hagia Triada Sarcophagus, a Minoan limestone sarcophagus from c. 1400 BC, 54" long, excavated from a tomb at Hagia Triada, Crete. Coated in plaster and painted in fresco on all faces, It is the only limestone sarcophagus of its era discovered to date...

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Roman fresco depicting Jason entering the city of Iolkos in Greece, where he will start his quest for the golden fleece with the Argonauts. The object is located in Casa degli Amorini Dorati in Pompeii.

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Roman fresco depicting Jason entering the city of Iolkos in Greece, where he will start his quest for the golden fleece with the Argonauts. The object is located in Casa degli Amorini Dorati in Pompeii.

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"Restored" and original of a Theran Woman, Adorants Fresco, Akrotiri. The clothes amaze me: a translucent blouse with saffron stamens, a 3-4-layered skirt with 6 different patterns in black, yellow, red and blue, Hair tied with a ribbon, necklaces, earrings, bracelets... 3600 y.o...

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"Restored" and original of a Theran Woman, Adorants Fresco, Akrotiri. The clothes amaze me: a translucent blouse with saffron stamens, a 3-4-layered skirt with 6 different patterns in black, yellow, red and blue, Hair tied with a ribbon, necklaces, earrings, bracelets... 3600 y.o...

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Part of the Blue monkeys fresco, from Akrotiri, Thera, Greece. It's dated to the 17th c, BCE, & housed at the Prehistoric Museum of Thera

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Part of the Blue monkeys fresco, from Akrotiri, Thera, Greece. It's dated to the 17th c, BCE, & housed at the Prehistoric Museum of Thera

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A gold ewer decorated with a dragon and lion playing with a ball, Ming dynasty, 1601 CE, now housed at the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xian, China

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A gold ewer decorated with a dragon and lion playing with a ball, Ming dynasty, 1601 CE, now housed at the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xian, China

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Mycenaean Bull-Head Rhyton. Combining silver as primary body and gold decoration, it attests masterful metallurgical expertise. Dated to c. 1525 BC, it was found in Shaft Grave IV within Grave Circle A at Mycenae, the royal cemetery of Bronze Age Greece's most powerful civilization...

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Mycenaean Bull-Head Rhyton. Combining silver as primary body and gold decoration, it attests masterful metallurgical expertise. Dated to c. 1525 BC, it was found in Shaft Grave IV within Grave Circle A at Mycenae, the royal cemetery of Bronze Age Greece's most powerful civilization...

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Fresco of woman and centaur, third Pompeian Style, 20 BC-45 AD, Pompeii, Italy. Found in the triclinium of the Villa of Cicero , this is one of five figures of people and centaurs painted aligned in fine detail on a panel about 28" wide and less than 10" high.

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Fresco of woman and centaur, third Pompeian Style, 20 BC-45 AD, Pompeii, Italy. Found in the triclinium of the Villa of Cicero , this is one of five figures of people and centaurs painted aligned in fine detail on a panel about 28" wide and less than 10" high.

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Winged figure riding a chariot by a building, painted in perspective, towards a portico adorned with shields, helmets and breastplates at the top. The fresco can still be seen on the original wall of the Macellum of Pompeii where it was painted...

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Winged figure riding a chariot by a building, painted in perspective, towards a portico adorned with shields, helmets and breastplates at the top. The fresco can still be seen on the original wall of the Macellum of Pompeii where it was painted...

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