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Cupisnique Culture Sacred Animals
Image by Caroline Cervera

Cupisnique Culture Sacred Animals

This piece shows a feline, owl, serpents, and condor. The owl and condor represented the sky while the feline represented the earth and dominance. The serpent represented the subterranean world. Housed in the Museo Larco, Lima, Peru.
Portrait Vessel, Moche Culture
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Portrait Vessel, Moche Culture

This portrait vessel was made during the Moche civilization's Apogee Epoch (c. 1 CE - 800 CE). House in Museo Larco, Lima, Peru.
Arts and Culture in Ancient Greece
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Arts and Culture in Ancient Greece

Aesychlus Aristophanes Base Capital Chorus Comedy Corinthian column Dionysus Doric column Drama Entablature Entasis Euripides Frieze Ionic column Metope Pediment Philosophy Satyr play Shaft Skene Sophocles Tragedy Triglyph Socrates Plato...
Painted Bowl from Halaf Culture
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Painted Bowl from Halaf Culture

This painted bowl dates back to the Halaf period, Mesopotamia, sixth century BCE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
Gold Staff Finial, Zenu Culture
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Gold Staff Finial, Zenu Culture

A gold staff finial made by the Zenúes, a people who belonged to the Zenú tribe of ancient Colombia. It features an owl on the edge with a majestic crest, polished golden wings and false filigree openwork on its chest. Distinctive features...
Kikimora in Popular Culture
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Kikimora in Popular Culture

Henry Cavill in The Witcher (2019) by Netflix. The image portrays a modern reimagination of Slavic Kikimora. © Netflix
Gandao in Kalasha culture
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Gandao in Kalasha culture

Gandao is the wooden image aimed at immortalizing the important departed souls of the Kalasha family member. Gandao is installed at cemetery. The Kalasha is sole pagan tribe of Pakistan with numerical strength of 4000 approx. The Kalasha...
Carved Globule Bones (Castelluccio Culture, Sicily)
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Carved Globule Bones (Castelluccio Culture, Sicily)

Animal bone segments (early bronze age, c. 2169 - c. 1500 BCE), between 13-15 centimeters in length, sometimes decorated with incisions on which, successively, have been carried out globules in relief. Their uses are not yet known, although...
A Gallery of 20 Mummies from around the World
Image Gallery by Ibolya Horváth

A Gallery of 20 Mummies from around the World

Mummification is the natural or artificial preservation of the soft tissue of a dead body. Natural mummification can happen in extremely cold, dry, or anaerobic conditions. Perhaps the most famous example of a natural mummy preserved in ice...
History of the Etruscan Culture: the First Great Italian Civilization
Video by Kelly Macquire

History of the Etruscan Culture: the First Great Italian Civilization

The Etruscans, who knew themselves as the Rasenna, were a culture that flourished in central Italy in the region of Etruria between the 8th and the 3rd century BCE. They are first mentioned by the Greek writer Hesiod in the 8th century BCE...
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