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Sculptural pairing of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Roman copy 2nd century AD, from a Greek original of the early classical period.

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Reconstruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of Herod, 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper. James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). 

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Mask decorated with paint, Nahal Hemar Cave, Judean Desert, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 9,000 years old.

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Roman statue of girl playing astragaloi. 130–150 AD. Marble. Finding Place: Caelian Hill in Rome.

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Hand of Sabazius. 3rd century. Bronze. Rome, Italy.

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Great Mosque of al-Nuri. Known for its leaning minaret, known as al-Hadba’ (The Hunchback). Built in 1172-73.

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Boxer at Rest. 330 B.C. a Hellenistic Greek sculpture of a sitting nude boxer at rest. Discovered on the slopes of the Quirinal in 1885.

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Alexander the Great. Ivory, Late 4th-3rd century BC (Hellenistic).

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Tetradrachm of Akragas (Agrigentum) with crab and dolphin. Greek, 413–406 B.C.

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Sarcophagus and lid with husband and wife. Italic, Etruscan. Late Classical or Early Hellenistic Period. 350–300 B.C.

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Bronze left foot with traces of sandal straps. 1st or 2nd century A.D, Roman.

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Dual bust of Herodotus 484-425 BC and Thucydides 460-400 BC. Marble, H. 48 cm, 4th century BC. Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples Italy.

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The discovery of the giant head in Nimrud Palace, Iraq, drawing taken from Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, 1849.

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Retreat Of The Ten Thousand, Adrien Guignet (1816–1854). The Battle of Cunaxa fought between the Persians and ten thousand Greek mercenaries of Cyrus the Young, 401 BC.

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The Midas Monument. Eskişehir Province, Turkey. 7th or 6th century BCE.

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King Candaules of Lydia, 1858. Jean-Leon Gerome.

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Cuneiform tablet telling the Epic of Creation. Neo-Assyrian, 7th century BC. From Nineveh, northern Iraq.