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Krug Armor Set Of Bayezid The Thunderbolt, 14-15th century. Ottoman Empire, Hisart Living History and Diorama Museum.

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Krug Armor Set Of Bayezid The Thunderbolt, 14-15th century. Ottoman Empire, Hisart Living History and Diorama Museum.

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Ottoman Armor of a Rider and a Horse, 15th-16th century, Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum

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Ottoman Armor of a Rider and a Horse, 15th-16th century, Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum

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Pair of Ankle Shoes, Ottoman Empire, late 19th century –early 20th c., Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Pair of Ankle Shoes, Ottoman Empire, late 19th century –early 20th c., Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Leg armor with silver inscription. Turkey, Ottoman Empire, 15th-16th century

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Leg armor with silver inscription. Turkey, Ottoman Empire, 15th-16th century

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Dish with Sailing-ship Design, Ottoman Empire, ca. 1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Dish with Sailing-ship Design, Ottoman Empire, ca. 1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Detail of an armor made in the 2nd half of the 16th century CE, in either France or Flanders. Now housed at the Louvre Museum

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Detail of an armor made in the 2nd half of the 16th century CE, in either France or Flanders. Now housed at the Louvre Museum

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A ceramic tankard decorated with ships. From the Ottoman Empire, late 16th century CE, now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago

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A ceramic tankard decorated with ships. From the Ottoman Empire, late 16th century CE, now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Sculpture of the fasting Buddha. Gandhara, Pakistan, Kushan Empire, 3rd-5th century AD

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Sculpture of the fasting Buddha. Gandhara, Pakistan, Kushan Empire, 3rd-5th century AD

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Greek sling bullets with engravings, 4th century BC. One side depicts a winged thunderbolt, and the other, the Greek inscription “take that” in high relief. British Museum

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Greek sling bullets with engravings, 4th century BC. One side depicts a winged thunderbolt, and the other, the Greek inscription “take that” in high relief. British Museum

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Pendant with a Memento Mori, second half of the 16th century, gilded enamel. Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire

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Pendant with a Memento Mori, second half of the 16th century, gilded enamel. Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire

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The Bhutesvara Yakshis are a series of yakshi reliefs on a railing, dating to the 2nd century CE during the time of the Kushan Empire, and now housed at the Indian Museum in Kolkata

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The Bhutesvara Yakshis are a series of yakshi reliefs on a railing, dating to the 2nd century CE during the time of the Kushan Empire, and now housed at the Indian Museum in Kolkata

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Woman’s headdress, mid 19th Century. French made and worn in America. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

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Woman’s headdress, mid 19th Century. French made and worn in America. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

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Seljuk figure found in Iran, dated to the 12th-early 13th century. Now located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Seljuk figure found in Iran, dated to the 12th-early 13th century. Now located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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A small ivory sculpture of a polar bear found on Igloolik Island. Middle Dorset period, 1st-6th century CE, now on display at the Canadian Museum of History

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A small ivory sculpture of a polar bear found on Igloolik Island. Middle Dorset period, 1st-6th century CE, now on display at the Canadian Museum of History

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Vichten mosaic with theme of Homer and the nine Muses in National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg, 2nd quarter 3rd century, 10.36x5.92 m, for more info see the comments

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Vichten mosaic with theme of Homer and the nine Muses in National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg, 2nd quarter 3rd century, 10.36x5.92 m, for more info see the comments

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Gold wedding ring set with an emerald and a garnet, Byzantine Empire, 10th century AD. Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

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Gold wedding ring set with an emerald and a garnet, Byzantine Empire, 10th century AD. Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

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Jousting armor, 15th-16th century, iron, created in Germany, Museum of Gdańsk.

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Jousting armor, 15th-16th century, iron, created in Germany, Museum of Gdańsk.

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Gong Held by Oni in Wood and Lacquer, Japan,19th Century, the Met Museum

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Gong Held by Oni in Wood and Lacquer, Japan,19th Century, the Met Museum

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Head of the fasting Buddha. Gandhara, Pakistan, Kushan Empire, 3rd-5th century AD

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Head of the fasting Buddha. Gandhara, Pakistan, Kushan Empire, 3rd-5th century AD

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