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A fan cart (Uchiwa-guruma) owned by the Japanese Imperial Family, and made in the late Edo period. The base is made of pear-grain lacquerware, and the fan pattern is by Kano Osanobu (1796-1846 CE) [1080x1404]

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A lapis lazuli cylinder seal decorated with geometric pattern. Piedmont style, Jemdet Nasr period (3100-2900 BCE), from Iraq, now part of Yale Babylonian Collection [7997x6205]

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Head of a votive mace with a lion-headed eagle and 6 lions, dedicated at a shrine in Girsu, Iraq. Inscription in archaic script: “Mesilim, king of Kish, builder of the temple of Ningirsu, brought [this mace head] for Ningirsu, Lugalshaengur [being] prince of Lagash”. c. 2550 BCE [1733x3026]

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Found in the tomb of a wealthy woman in Thessaloniki, Greece, this gold ring, dated to 330–320 BCE, bears an engraved depiction on its bezel: a seated woman leaning her head downward, gazing tenderly at the small child nursing in her arms. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki [3276x3456]

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A bone object found on the face of a corpse in the Bronze Age layers of Yanik Tepe in Iran. Originally interpreted by Burney as an amulet. In 2011, ophthalmologist Sahihi Oskooei claimed that it was instead the world's oldest eyewear, made to correct optical problems. 4000-3000 BCE [900x530]

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The building of Wells Cathedral in England, dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, started in 1175 CE and went on for almost 300 years. In 1338 CE, the so-called St. Andrew's Cross arches were added to the building to support the central tower, giving the cathedral its unique appearance [674x899]

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Folding fan of the Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna crafted with a lily-of-the-valley design. The fan was made of wood and silk, carved and painted to mimic the flowers and leaves of the plant. 1870-1890 CE, now housed at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia [1200x820]

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A selection of ancient duck weights in the Yale Babylonian Collection weighing from 2 to 5,370 grams. These duck weights come in various sizes and were made of a number of materials such as limestone, hematite and even more semi-precious stones such as chalcedony and agate [3456x4606]

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A large 5th century CE Roman asaratos oikos (unswept floor) mosaic from the Levant, now on display at the Château de Boudry in Switzerland. The scene is from a symposium (banquet) with 9 figures on a stibadium or sigma couch in a triclinium, and 7 servants [2200x3727]

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On the walls of the Deer Cave, in Italy, are depicted numerous paintings, almost 3000 pictograms, from the smallest of about 2 cm to the largest of about 75 cm, concentrated in groups in about 60 panels on both walls of 3 galleries. The Neolithic paintings are between 5000-6000 years old [1200x1617]

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The Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, was accidentally found by a man when he set out with a metal detector to find a hammer he had lost in a farm. The British government rewarded him with £1.75 million. He found his hammer afterwards [2518x4744]

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Takabuti was an ancient Egyptian married woman who died in her twenties or early thirties in 660 BCE, from an axe blow to her back. A study of the proteins in her leg muscles allowed researchers to hypothesise that she had been running for some time before she was killed [1700x3535]

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The Criel Mound in West Virginia, built in 250–150 BC. Inside the mound, there was 2 skeletons near the top, and 11 at the base, which consisted of a large skeleton at the center surrounded by 10 others arranged in a spoke-like pattern with their feet pointing toward the central skeleton [1124x1529]

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A gold cosmetic container and 3 bi-valve shells containing red, blue, and black cosmetic pigments, found at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in Iraq. Circa 2600 BCE, now housed at the British Museum [2319x2500]

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A 4th century BCE solid gold finger ring found in Tomb Z in Derveni, Greece. The ring bears the inscription ΚΛΕΙΤΑΙΔΩΡΟΝ, which means "a gift to Kleita", most probably the deceased of Tomb Z. Now housed at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki [632x517]

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The Lead Plaque of Magliano, which contains 73 words in the Etruscan language, seems to be a dedicatory text, including as it does many names of mostly underworld deities. It dates to the mid 5th century BCE, and is now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Florence [1800x2092]

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A gold hairpin ornament decorated with a standing phoenix and inlaid with turquoise. Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), China [2086x2695]

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Cylindrical hematite weights from Warka in Iraq. Old Babylonian Empire, 2000-1600 BCE, now housed at the British Museum [5173x2773]

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the Treaty Cone of Entemena, king of Lagash, to god of Bad-Tibira, about the peace treaty between Lagash and Uruk. This text is the oldest known diplomatic document. From Iraq, dated to c. 2400 BCE, now housed at the British Museum [1536x2324]

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A snake bracelet with a ring designed by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha for French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Made of cloisonne enamel, rubies, opals & diamonds. 1899 CE [1200x960]

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A relief from Kom Ombo Temple depicting the Ancient Egyptian calendar, a 365-day solar calendar divided into 3 seasons (flooding, growing, and harvest), with four 30-day months per season, followed by 5 extra days, also known as the "birthdays of the gods", at the end of the year [1600x1200]

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An ancient maya vase, from Naranjo in Guatemala, depicting on the left, a cheeky rabbit steeling the clothes of God L, as he tells him "smell your sweat, wizard penis". And on the right we see the same deity complaining to the supreme creator god Itzamnaaj [1280x2049]

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An Assyrian tablet describing a ritual for a substitute king. When priests saw a bad omen aimed at the King, a commoner was found to replace him while he went in hiding. The man lived as the king absorbing the evil spirits until the omen passed, then he was killed and the king returned [3230x3791]

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When Yoshitaro Shibasaki and his team completed their 1907 ascent of Mount Tsurugi, thought to be the last unclimbed mountain in Japan, they found a metal cane decoration and a sword at the summit that were later determined to have been left there more than 1000 years earlier [1914x2955]

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A black satin hat inlaid with kingfisher feathers, worn by the imperial concubines of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911 CE). Now housed at the Shenyang Palace Museum in China [1649x1278]

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