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Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a bucket-like object. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of a panel from Room I, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

This bronze and gilded head of an Ibex or a capricorn was part of sacred bark which might be carried on the shoulders of a procession of priests during rituals. Probably from Zagazig, Egypt. Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, 1069-945...

The case is reconstructed from reused pieces of papyrus on which traces of writings are still visible. The plaster exterior surface represents the dead woman dressed in a pink undertunic, a 2nd tunic which is colored blue with red stripes...

American protestors tar and feather an excise officer during the Whiskey Rebellion, c. 1794, engraving by John Rogers, 1863. New York Public Library.

Queen Fredegund rides into battle with her son, the boy king Chlothar II (r. 584-629) on her lap. Illustration from the manuscript Grand Chronicles of France. Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon.

A 1901 oil on canvas still life, Sunflowers in an Armchair, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the French post-impressionist painter. Gauguin had asked for seeds of sunflowers to be sent to him from Europe so that he could grow the flowers in his...

Limestone statue of an Egyptian servant grinding flour. From modern-day Egypt. Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, 2250 BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).

An 1869 oil on canvas still-life, A Vase of Flowers, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Renoir was keenly interested in painting flowers throughout his career and found the exercise relaxing.

This statue was unearthed during the German excavations at the city of Ashur in 1905 CE. The statue depicts a man in a long gown, which is girded at the waist with a belt. The details of the body, especially at the shoulders and upper arms...

A Greek statuette of an emaciated woman from Smyrna, Asia Minor. The woman depicted has an emaciated, skeletal frame and distended belly. Her pose, dress, and youthful hairstyle indicates that she is a young woman suffering from a debilitating...