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Detail of the face of one of the "Bronze Runners", two full-size bronze statues with bone and stone inlays for the eyes, found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. Generally dated between the first century BC and the first AD, they are believed to be copies of Greek statues...
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One of the Ain Ghazal statues, large-scale lime plaster and reed statues discovered near Amman, Jordan, made between 7200 and 6250 BCE. Pre-Pottery Neolithic C period. The statues are among the earliest large-scale representations of the human form. Their purpose remains uncertain...
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Los Pinchudos was the ancient burial ground of the Chachapoya people in Peru. The cemetery dates to the 13th century CE and contains 8 ornate clay and stone burial chambers, known as chulpas, topped with wooden roofs and decorated with colorful patterns and anthropomorphic sculptures
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Stone relief that served as a shop sign in Ostia in the late 2nd century AD. The picture shows a saleswoman with pens of chickens and hares; baskets of fruit, one of which contains figs; a vat of snails, a delicacy; and two monkeys to attract and entertain customers. Museum of Ostia
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Housed at Crete's Museum of Ancient Eleutherna, is the 9th-7th century BCE jar burial of a boy aged 11, and his devoted dog whose remains were found slightly above the layer of the initial burial, indicating that some time had passed before they laid the dog to rest just outside the jar
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Over 30 film reels from the Qajar Empire have been discovered at Golestan Palace, dated to 1896–1907. They contain some of the earliest footage in Iran’s history, featuring Persian celebrations during that period, government officials in royal palaces, and the dawn of the country’s cinema.
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