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A Maya carving of a frog from Topoxte. 700–800 CE, shell and quartz, now part of the collection of the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Guatemala City

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A Maya carving of a frog from Topoxte. 700–800 CE, shell and quartz, now part of the collection of the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Guatemala City

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A Gallic bronze helmet found by archeologists in Tintignac, France, in 2004. 3rd-4th century BCE

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A Gallic bronze helmet found by archeologists in Tintignac, France, in 2004. 3rd-4th century BCE

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A whaling suit from Greenland, made some time before 1834. The hunter crawled into the sealskin suit through the central hole, making it waterproof by pulling the hole closed. Now housed at the National Museum of Denmark

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A whaling suit from Greenland, made some time before 1834. The hunter crawled into the sealskin suit through the central hole, making it waterproof by pulling the hole closed. Now housed at the National Museum of Denmark

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An Inuit otter amulet. Engraved and pigmented ivory, c.1870-1880

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An Inuit otter amulet. Engraved and pigmented ivory, c.1870-1880

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Found in Thuburbo Majus, this mosaic depicts two naked boxers wearing gloves fighting while the older, defensive-looking boxer on the left is bleeding from his head. The younger boxer on the right is about to finish him off. late 3rd century AD, Bardo Museum

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Found in Thuburbo Majus, this mosaic depicts two naked boxers wearing gloves fighting while the older, defensive-looking boxer on the left is bleeding from his head. The younger boxer on the right is about to finish him off. late 3rd century AD, Bardo Museum

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This cosmetic spoon depicts a swimming woman holding a container shaped like an antelope in front of her. The top of the container was originally attached with a peg that allowed it to swing open. The compartment inside would have held some sort of cosmetic. circa 1390–1352 B.C., MET

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This cosmetic spoon depicts a swimming woman holding a container shaped like an antelope in front of her. The top of the container was originally attached with a peg that allowed it to swing open. The compartment inside would have held some sort of cosmetic. circa 1390–1352 B.C., MET

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A wig-like headgear consisting of a cap of natural brown camelid yarn worked in looping, from which falls long human-hair braids, the lower 10 inches of which are wrapped with dyed camelid yarns to form a pattern of stepped triangles. Southern coast of Peru, 500-900 AD

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A wig-like headgear consisting of a cap of natural brown camelid yarn worked in looping, from which falls long human-hair braids, the lower 10 inches of which are wrapped with dyed camelid yarns to form a pattern of stepped triangles. Southern coast of Peru, 500-900 AD

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