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Baroque, Age of Contrasts Exhibition in Zürich
Image by Swiss National Musuem

Baroque, Age of Contrasts Exhibition in Zürich

A photograph showing a section of the 2022-23 exhibition Baroque, Age of Contrasts in the Swiss National Museum, Zürich. ©Swiss National Museum (used with permission)
Stela of Hernán Pérez VI from Bronze Age Iberia
Image by James Blake Wiener

Stela of Hernán Pérez VI from Bronze Age Iberia

This granite stela dates from the Early or Middle Bronze Age. It was discovered in Cáceres, Spain. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)
Viking Age Farm, Avaldsnes, Norway
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Viking Age Farm, Avaldsnes, Norway

Reconstructed Viking Age (c. 790-1100 CE) farm in Avaldsnes, Norway, including main longhouse and various outbuildings.
Table 1 - Chronology of the Greek Dark Age
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Table 1 - Chronology of the Greek Dark Age

Simplified chronology of the Greek Dark Age
Bronze Age Silver Bull, Turkey
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Bronze Age Silver Bull, Turkey

The gold inlay can be seen on the shoulders, sides, and haunch. The animal stands on a copper stand. Perhaps, it was part of a canopy pole of a rich burial. Probably from Alaca Huyuk, Central Turkey. Early Bronze Age, about 2300 BCE. (The...
Table 2 - Overview of the Greek Dark Age pottery styles
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Table 2 - Overview of the Greek Dark Age pottery styles

Overview of the different pottery styles found in Greece between 1050 BC to 700 BC.
Bronze Age Anatolia
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Bronze Age Anatolia

A map of Bronze Age Anatolia. Indicated in the northeast is the Hayasa-Azzi confederation, an indigenous Bronze Age tribal confederation which flourished on the plateau of ancient Armenia and Turkey between c. 1500 and c. 1200 BCE.
Viking Age Clothing
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Viking Age Clothing

Reconstructions of Viking Age clothing as found on display at the Archaeological Museum in Stavanger, Norway. The woman is wearing a white shift or underdress, a red overdress (hangerock or smokkr) and two characteristically Viking oval brooches...
Viking Age Helmet
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Viking Age Helmet

The Viking Age helmet pictured here is known as the Gjermundbu helmet, named after the farm it was found at near Haugsbygd, Norway, in 1943 CE. It was located inside a Viking Age burial chamber. Although at the time of discovery it was in...
Viking Age Oval Brooches from Hedeby
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Viking Age Oval Brooches from Hedeby

Two Viking Age oval brooches - also known as tortoise brooches - which were used in a practical way by women to pin up the straps of their overdresses but were often decorated. They came in pairs - one for each dress strap - and are often...
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