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Thracian Gold Ring (5th Century BC), depicting a rower. It was found in the burial mound Svetitsa, near Kran village, Kazanlak, Bulgaria.

The ring is currently located in the National Archaeological Museum of Sofia.

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Professor of Assyriology, Matthew Stolper  standing in front of the Colossal Bull Capital, from the Audience Hall of the Darius I (518-460 BC), Persepolis, Iran.

Oriental Institute - University of Chicago

📷 Aldona Rychter

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Electrum Stater with Zeus Ammon (410-330 BC); Minted in Kyzikos, Mysia, Anatolia (in modern-day Türkiye).

(D: 20mm; W: 15.95g)

MET Museum

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Earliest known depiction of the famous 'Wooden Horse' of the Trojan War, on Mykonos Terracotta Vase (Pithos) - 670 BC, found at Mykonos island, Cyclades, Greece.

Neck of pithos shows descent of Greeks from wooden horse. His hooves rest upon little wheels, and in body and neck of horse are seven windows visible. Pithos was discovered in 1961, during digging of a well in one of houses in centre of town of Mykonos in Greece.

Mykonos Archaeological Museum

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Grand Suite on Orient Express :

Orient Express was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 AD, by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated in Europe until 2009.

Presently Venice-Simplon Orient Express train, a private venture by Belmond using original CIWL carriages from the 1920s and 1930s, continues to run from London to Venice and to other destinations in Europe, including the original route from Paris to Istanbul.

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Roman Mosaic (1st-2nd Century AD), from House of Orpheus showing Orpheus playing a lute in centre with wild African animals surrounding him. From triclinium or dining room of villa looking out across fertile plains of Volubilis Archaeological site, Morocco.

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The theme of genre painting is to depict the daily life and customs of human social life. The economic prosperity and the formation of the civil class of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) provided plentiful inspiration for genre painting.

This Song Dynasty painting as an example. It shows the scene of merchants' long-distance trafficking over the mountains, while vividly describing the thick life breath of the wine houses in the mountains.

National Museum, Beijing

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An Aztec Turquoise Mask (1500-1521 CE), with diamond eyes and European produced frame and support in gilded silver and enamels added in 17th Century CE. Now part of the Treasury of the Grand Dukes at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy.

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Doctor Irving Finkel holds a 3770 year old tablet containing god Enki's conversation with Sumerian king Atram-Hasis (Noah's figure in earlier versions of flood story) and instructions on how to build an ark for him. Noah's ark was first described as round boat with diameter of 220ft.

British Museum

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This beautiful Egyptian Gazelle-shaped spoon was created during the rule of Akhenaten (1353-1337 BC). The artist carved it from the wood of the carob tree.

Musée du Louvre

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Minoan Tile Sculpture of "Snake Goddess" (1600 BC), found in Warehouse of a Temple within borders of Knossos Palace (2200-1100 BC), Crete, Greece.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum.

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Minoans, who lived on the island of Crete, Greece; between 3000-1600 BC, had a very complex culture, more advanced than many of the societies that followed it.

This complexity is also shown in the artistically designed and skillfully made clothing they wore.

Much of our knowledge of this clothing comes from artwork that has been found at the sites where the Minoans lived, thousands of years before most recorded history.

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A Roman Sundial (2nd Century AD), was found near the Heroon in the ruins of the ancient city of Sagalassos, Türkiye. It is in the form of a ring at an angle of 60 degrees mounted on a lion's foot.

Burdur Archaeological Museum, Türkiye

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This incredible Roman gold snake bracelet was found on the arm of a woman who was killed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 AD, Pompeii.

The inscription on the inside states 'DOMINVS SVAE ANCILLAE' which means "From a master to his slave girl."

NAM, Naples

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Roman Marble Statue of Jupiter (150 AD), from Italy.

Jupiter, king of the Roman gods, carrying a thunderbolt and accompagnied by an eagle.

King of the Gods (Greek-Zeus)
God of the sky and diurnal thunder
Member of the Archaic Triad, Capitoline Triad and the Dii Consentes.

Louvre Museum

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British Archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his wife Catherine at the moment of the discovery of pottery pipes that were used as a sewage and rainwater network in what is considered the first water drainage system in history before about 4000 BC, Ur (Mesopotamia), moden-day Iraq, in 1930.

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The historical house, where an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of High Renaissance; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564 CE) was born, on March 6, 1475 CE.

The house is located in Caprese, a small village located in Tuscany, Arezzo Province, Italy.

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This 1600 CE, tea bowl was mended by master potter Honami Koetsu.

Japanese diplomacy initiated a ritualised code for tea ceremony drawing its inspiration from Zen thought with purpose of providing complete immersion in moment and a perfect bond among all interlocutors at event.

Beauty of imperfection or wabi-sabi, highlighted by kintsugi technique, art of repairing broken recipients with help of tree sap, laquer and gold adds even more commitment to most subtle details of our existence.

Bacterian Golden Statuettes (100 BC) :

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom controlled Bactria and Sogdia in Central Asia from 250 to 125 BC, and together with the Indo-Greek Kingdom, it was the easternmost state of the Hellenistic world.

It is centered in north of modern-day Afghanistan. The state's expansion into present-day eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan in 180 BC established the Indo-Greek Kingdom, which lasted until 10 AD.

Hermitage Museum

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A 1st-2nd Century AD; a 20 sided 'Roman Rock Crystal Dice' (icosahedron), from Wroxeter, Shropshire, England.

This kind of dice was intended to be thrown, and to give a random result or possibly used in fortune telling, Greek letter on each face may have corresponded to a reference in a divination manual. Alternatively, it may have been used for an unknown game. Archeologists believe that they were also used in conjunction with divination handbooks.

Louvre Museum

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