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Marble Head, Iraq
A marble head of a figurine from Iraq, 3rd Millennium BCE. (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).
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Column Capital, Persepolis
A column capital in the form of a bull-man from the Tripylon, Persepolis, Achaemenid Period, Reign of Xerxes 486-465 BCE. (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
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Kalasha People
A girl in traditional costume from Kalash valley, Chitral, Pakistan. Kalasha tribe is the sole pagan tribe of Pakistan.
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Hathor
Head of the 'cow goddess' Hathor, 1417-1379 BCE. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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Caracalla, Capitoline Museums
A marble bust of Roman Emperor Caracalla, 215-217 CE (Capotoline Museum, Rome)
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Roman Emperor Otho
A marble representation of the Roman Emperor Otho, 69 CE. (Louvre, Paris)
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Youth from Antikythera
Known as the Antikythera Ethebe, the statue is one of the very few surviving ancient Greek bronzes and is a masterpiece of Greek Classical sculpture (c. 340 BCE) The statue may represent either Hercules holding the apples...
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Minoan Gold Ring
An engraved gold ring from the Minoan civilization on Crete, 15-14th century BCE. The ring probably originates from Knossos and depicts the epiphany of a goddess: seated in a shrine, floating in the air and standing in a boat...
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Palmyra, Syria
Colonnade with canal in the foreground, temple of Ba'al (1st-2nd century CE), Palmyra, Syria.
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Theatre of Thugga
The stage of the Roman theatre of Thugga (Dougga), North Africa (168-169 CE)
