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![Greek vases: names, shapes and functions](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1207.jpg?v=1707677764)
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Greek vases: names, shapes and functions
The system of names used today for Greek vases has quite rightly been described by one leading scholar as 'chaotic'. Many of the names were first applied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by scholars who tried to fit the names of...
![Making and decorating Athenian black- and red-figure vases](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2061.jpg?v=1668074408)
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Making and decorating Athenian black- and red-figure vases
The first stage in making a pot is to dig the clay out of the ground. Pieces of grit or plant matter must be removed before the clay can be used. This was done in ancient times, as it is today, by mixing the clay with water and letting the...
![Looking East, Looking West: Mughal Painting between Persia and Europe](/uploads/kraked/6/6-3105_ci_preview.jpg)
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Looking East, Looking West: Mughal Painting between Persia and Europe
Looking East, Looking West: Mughal Painting between Persia and Europe November 19, 2015 Getty Center Lecture by Kavita Singh Introductory remarks by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Brian Sweeney Kavita Singh is professor of art history at...
![Firing Athenian black and red figure vases](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/512.jpg?v=1665496088)
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Firing Athenian black and red figure vases
A distinctive red and black colour scheme characterises most of the painted pottery of sixth- and fifth-century Athens. The colours result from the skilful exploitation of the high iron content of Athenian clay by an ingenious process of...
![Kekrops Looking on as Gaia Gives Erechtheus to Athena](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14442.jpg?v=1629698679)
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Kekrops Looking on as Gaia Gives Erechtheus to Athena
Gaia offers Erichthonios to Athena, with Kekrops watching. Clay relief from Melos, c. 460 BCE. Illustration from Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher, 1890. Kekrops, the mythical king...
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Ancient Greek Pottery
Greek pottery has four main types: Geometric, Corinthian, Athenian Black-figure, and Athenian red-figure pottery. Pottery vessels were made for everyday use such as the two-handled amphora for storage, the single-stem kylix cup for drinking...
![Chief Arvol Looking Horse Speaks of White Buffalo Prophecy](/uploads/kraked/6/6-3028_ci_preview.jpg)
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Chief Arvol Looking Horse Speaks of White Buffalo Prophecy
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe. The leader of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, the great Sioux nation, is a man with a vision. A Great Urgency: To All World Religious and Spiritual...
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Moundville Archaeological Site Looking Toward Mound A
An image from the Moundville Archaeological Park in Alabama, USA, looking from the top of Mound B toward Mound A and the surrounding plaza. Moundville is the modern name for the ancient Native American city which developed at this site and...
![Vases & Rainbow Mosaic, Carthage](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5207.jpg?v=1617879603)
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Vases & Rainbow Mosaic, Carthage
Vases linked by rainbows with various animals and flowers in between on a fllor mosaic. Below the upper row of vases is a spring, inscribed Fontes, at which 2 animals are drinking. From Carthage, modern-day Tunisia. 4th or 5th century CE...
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True understanding of law of karma
The topic in this clip can be further explored on twitter by subscribing to Twitter Humanism1893 https://twitter.com/search?q=humanism1893&src=typd This account is called Humanism1893 because it reflects Humanism that came on world...