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"Autumn Cat" painted during the late Joseon kingdom. Its author is the Korean painter Byeon Sang-byeok (1730-1775 CE). The painting shows a cat in a garden with blooming chrysanthemums.

National Museum of Korea, Seoul

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Roman Glass and Gold-leaf Plate Base with Peregrina between Saints Peter and Paul (mid-300s AD); from Rome, Italy.

Overall: (11.5 x 13.3 x 1.2 cm)
diameter of foot: (9.8 cm)

MET Museum

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Topkapı Dagger, which is considered the most valuable dagger in the world, was started to be made in 1741 CE, by order of Mahmud I, to be given as a gift to the Iranian Shah Nadir Shah, who was a Turk of Afshar. When dagger was ready, embassy delegation, which set out to take gift to Baghdad, returned to İstanbul due to death of Nadir Shah in uprising that started in Baghdad and delivered the dagger to the palace treasury.

Topkapı Palace Museum, İstanbul

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Interior of the Orient Express :

The Orient Express is one of the few true relics we have of 'Old World' splendor.

Orient Express was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated in Europe until 2009. It's best remembered as the luxury travel line that carried wealthy aristocrats from Paris to Constantinople in the Roaring Twenties.

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An open air school in 1957, Netherlands. In the beginning of the 20th century a movement towards open air schools took place in Europe. Classes were taught in forests so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight.

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Fukang Meteorite (4.5 billion years old), the most expensive and most beautiful meteorite in the world.

In 2000, a Chinese merchant found it in the Gobi Desert, near Fukang, Xinjiang Province, China.

Fukang meteorite consists of nickel and iron, and what makes it rare is that it contains a type of rare gemstone, which is honey-colored crystal olivine, a gemstone similar to emerald, but it is rare. It was sold at Sotheby’s for 90,000 dollars.

Arizona Meteorite Laboratory

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Tower houses from Middle Ages, Tusheti (Georgia).

Tower houses are scattered throughout numerous mountainous regions of Caucasus region. These are buildings of 4-5 floors, which were built for defensive purposes.

Entrance to tower was on second floor and could only be accessed by a removable staircase. In event of an attack, inhabitants took refuge there and, having removed the stairs, could resist for a long time.

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Greek Silver Tetradrachm Coin (480-420 BC), depicting the owl of Athena.

Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

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In 1938, a house known today as "Bicentenary House" (Casa del Bicentenario) was unearthed
in Herculaneum.

Archaeologists found it exactly 200 years after excavations began in this area. There is cross-shaped recess preserved on wall of one of rooms on second floor. There used to be wooden cross in this place.

It appears, that Nazarene was worshiped secretly in Herculaneum until, 79 AD, place was covered with ashes from Vesuvius. Arrangement of room resembles modern chapels.

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Gallo-Roman Statue; with a removable top (1st Century CE)

MET Museum

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A man browses for books in old Public library of Cincinnati, Ohio, US. Built in 1874 CE, old library was hailed as “The Most Magnificent Public Library in the Country”. It had five levels of cast iron shelving, a fabulous foyer, checkerboard marble floors, and an atrium lit by a skylight ceiling.

But building was demolished in 1955 CE, when library opened a more sizeable and contemporary building just few blocks down street.

Today, an office building and parking lot stand where it used to be.

Something has gone wrong with ..... Hooomans 😀

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"It took me years to realize that Inca and pre-Columbian architecture is directly related to the structure of the corn kernels. In a western model of thought, one might judge the shapes as irregular, but in a universal thought, everything is a correlation between the cosmos, science, art and humanity."

As you can see, the organic growth forms are represented in a logarithmic way, and the fact that these pentagonal, hexagonal and heptagonal blocks coincide with the corn forms.

- Juan Casco

Temple of the Buddha and Maitreya Temple in Tongren, Guizhou province, China.

Temples sit atop New Golden Summit or Red Cloud Golden Summit, a 100m tall column of rock on a ridge of Mount Fanjingshan, and are both connected by a bridge that crosses a narrow gorge. They were probably first built sometime during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD).

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Snow Goggles, first sunglasses were used 2000 years ago by Inuit hunters.

Earliest known use of glasses to protect eyes from sun was Inuit use of “Sun Goggles” to shield their eyes from blinding glare of light reflected off snow.

Made from carved driftwood, bone, walrus ivory, or caribou antler that formed strip worn across eye area, with thin slits. Goggles were cut so that they fit tightly to face, often soot or gunpowder was rubbed on outside to absorb light and further cut down on glare.

The existence of mankind can be traced way back to about 200,000 years and in contrast to it, humans have started recording history just 6000 years ago. It means that we may never be able to know what happened in those 194,000 years that have never been recorded.

- Dr. M.F. Khan

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A Ptolemaic Era (1st Century BC) Limestone Eroticon :

This interesting object depicts, a squatting nude male holding, with both hands, his oversized phallus which extends over his right shoulder.

This 12cm high artefact; now housed in a Private Collection.

📷 : Christie's

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Akhal-Teke; a Turkmen horse breed, from Turkmenistan Teke tribe, also known as Desert Horse is one of oldest and most beautiful breeds.

Since ancient times, they have a reputation for speed and endurance, intelligence, and a distinctive metallic sheen. The shiny coat of the breed led to their nickname, "Golden Horses".

History of Akhal Teke horses, dates back to 5000 BC. There are currently about 6600 Akhal-Tekes in the world, mostly in Turkmenistan.

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A painted limestone 'Beer Making Woman Sculpture' (2494-2345 BC; Old Kingdom; 5th Dynasty), found in Tomb of Meresankh III which is a short walk east of Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt.

This figurine is presented in act of making beer, kneading dough in a strainer over a large jar. Beer was brewed in a large jar using fermented barley bread sprayed with palm liquor. When fermented, beer was flowing through a hole near bottom of jar.

Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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Detroit’s Mark Twain Library, which was closed in 1996 for renovations and never reopened.

📷© Vintage American Photographs

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