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Relief with the Three Graces
Relief from the Sebasteion of Aphrodisias depicting the Three Graces in a typical Hellenistic style. The Sebasteion is a monumental complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors in the 1st century CE. Aphrodisias Museum...

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Three Graces Relief, Piraeus
A marble relief plaque showing the Three Graces. Copy of a c. 470 BCE original by Sokrates the Boetian sculptor. (Archaeological Museum, Piraeus)

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Mosaic of the Three Graces
Mosaic of the Three Graces from Caesarea in Mauretania (modern-day Cherchell in Algeria). Dated to the 4th century CE.
Archaeological Museum of Cherchell, Algeria.

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Three Pieces of the Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera Mechanism (also known as the Antikythera Device), dated to the late 2nd century/early 1st century BCE (roughly 205-60 BCE) is understood as the world's first analogue computer.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

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Medieval Kingdoms: Total War - (Rome 2 Mod) :The Battle of Poitiers 19th September 1356 AD
The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 in Nouaillé, near the city of Poitiers in Aquitaine, western France. An army of English, Welsh, Breton and Gascon troops, many of them veterans of Crécy, led by Edward, the Black Prince...

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Wako - The Medieval Pirates of Southeast Asia
Wako (aka wokou and waegu) is a term used to refer to Japanese (but also including Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese) pirates who plagued the seas of East Asia from Korea to Indonesia, especially between the 13th and 17th centuries CE. Besides...

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The Tombs of Goguryeo
Goguryeo (Koguryo) ruled northern Korea during the Three Kingdoms period from the 1st century BCE to 7th century CE, and the best evidence of the kingdom's prosperity and artistry can be found in the many surviving tombs of the period. The...

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Three Fountain Heads from Pompeii
Three marble fountain heads from Pompeii. 1st century CE. In private gardens, fountains were an ostentatious display of the owner's wealth. His or her taste was shown in the choice of fountain head, such as these three: a theatre mask...

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Kylix with Three Pairs
Red-figure kylix depicting three pairs of individuals; two men, two women, and a man and woman. The three pairs may represent couples engaged in acts of courtship, such as gift-giving. However, the scene is not precisely defined. Height...

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Three Doctors Attend a Man with the Plague
Woodcutting of a plague-stricken man lying in bed, attended by three physicians. From the Pestbuch, a 16th Century CE medical treatise by Hieronymous Brunschwig (c. 1450-1512 CE). (Courtesy of the Historical Medical Library of The College...