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Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age. Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago. 📷 National Museum of Denmark

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by folia_folia

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Traditional translucent horn combs featuring painted designs of a fish and various birds, crafted in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, once prepared as “Palace” combs for the Imperial Court and delivered in brocade boxes (Dimensions: 16.19 × 4.45 × 0.32 cm for the fish; 9.21 × 3.5 × 0.32 cm for each bird), Credit: Creative Museum.⁣ ⁣ These combs are fashioned from horn that allows light to pass through, with precise painted motifs portraying aquatic and avian subjects. ⁣

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Swan and Cygnet  ❀

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Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci MERMAIDS - 1990, dir. Richard Benjamin

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Apricot roses with dew ~ misa_flowers

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Garden roses by Daiga Ellaby

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Iekeliene Stange by Tim Walker for Joe Malone ‘Bluebell’

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pov: it's summer but you prefer autumn

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Netherlands by peter_tulner

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Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Sissinghurst, Kent, England by Andrew Butler

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Rabbit enjoys the summer…

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