Roman mosaic showing the mysterious figure of a man with the head of a rooster. The object comes from Brading Villa on the Isle of Wight in England. [800x533]

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Ancestral Puebloan granary (original condition, no reconstruction), ~1450 AD [2048x1536] [OC]

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Porcelain figurines, from China, 20th Century. On display at Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India.[3509×3523]

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Female draped figure. Italy, 2nd century AD [2867x3823] [OC]

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Draft of "A Soldier's Declaration" from Siegfried Sassoon's journal for April - June 1917. Loaned to the Jewish Museum from the Cambridge University Library [1024x683]. Text of final version, which put Sassoon at risk of court martial, in comments

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Ain Sakhri Lovers - This is the oldest known object that depicts a couple having sex. It was discovered in a cave near Bethlehem in 1933 and is thought to be a carving used in fertility rituals by the Natufians. They lived in the Middle East around 10,000 BC. Photo: The British Museum [2269x2269]

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Young Husband: First Marketing by Lilly Martin Spencer. American, 1854 [3229 x 3869][OS]

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Urn Lid Fragment of the Jaguar God of the Underworld with Two Cubs. Guatemala City. Museo Popol Vuh [1300 x 1590]

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Sarcophagus of the Spouses, from Villa Giulia in Rome; Etruscan terra-cotta, 530–510 b.C. [3600x2700].

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The Capuchin Crypt is a small space comprising several tiny chapels located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto.It contains the skeletal remains of 3,700 bodies believed to be Capuchin friars buried by their order.[1600x1067]

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Jade pendant shaped like a stylized dragon. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 6th century BC [1500x1450]

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