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Detail - Fibula (ancient brooch) from the Regolini Galassi Tomb (They do love ducks!) Mid-7th Century BCE Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Italy

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Ancient Egyptian travertine objects

From front left: a cosmetic spoon with the handle in the form of an ankh-sign and a small ‘magical jar’ vase with a stopper. From left, rear: a bag-shaped flask; a kohl-pot; and a cosmetic vase with lid, all part of Treasure of Harageh collection. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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me: no one understands me

me also: behaves unintelligibly

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White-ground terracotta lekythos (oil flask) depicting the winged goddess Nike on her way to crown a victor.  Attributed to the Carlsruhe Painter; ca. 460-450 BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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A Nubian woman cleaning her carpet in the Nile while her child is having a swim.

Nour el Rifai

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Symmetrical  rock cave Church (Aynalı Kilise) in #Göreme #Cappadocia, Turkey. 11 th. c.

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The ruins of a fallen kingdom, Luxor, Egypt, date unknown.

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Amulet of Horus as a falcon Nubian Napatan Period, reign of Harsiyotef or his successor 404–353 B.C.

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Artemisia Prepares to Drink the Ashes of her Husband, Mausolusca (1630) Artist attributed: Francesco Furini, Felice Ficherelli

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Shell paint palette

Maya

Late Classic Period, 550–850 AD

Object Place: Guatemala, Mexico, or Belize

Palette for holding water-based paints carved from a large conch shell. The palette is carved asf the formal pose of Maya court painters portrayed on the pictorial ceramics, with fingers curled towards the palm and the thumb or forefinger pointing forwards.

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Feline Bottle, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ceramic

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/310662

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Marion Davies and Ruth Shepley in WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER (’23)

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comme des garçons - adc 91

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Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet | 1968

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Terracotta group of two seated women, perhaps Demeter and her daughter Persephone. Made at Myrina, north-west Asia-Minor, circa 180 BCE. Said to be from Asia-Minor. (The British Museum, London)

> ancient.eu

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What constellations looked like in 818 AD; from a manuscript that is almost 1200 years ago.

This manuscript is so old, algebra wasn’t discovered yet. (Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī will discover it in 820 AD)

From Sammlung astronomisch-komputistischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Texte - BSB Clm 210

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